without the feeling something's might be wrong or not "genuine".
The DB25 QP was my favorite DB at the beginning...before they launched every year new hit machines, starting with the DB25 T Jumping Second.
The QP has a very balanced dial with the 2 windows, the MP and the date, and a very nice decoration with the guilloché and a fantastic painted numeral ring (I'll keep the silver day for now but I'll be curious to see the others in the metal).
And it's automatic (I like automatic).
I love the DB25 T Jumping second, it's a marvel to look at and the dead second has really been growing on me as a very attracting complication (it wasn't true several years ago).
Its "sister", the DB28 ST is one of the most beautiful (and I prefer it in the original version, not really convinced by the 2014 version with blackened bridges). Would I prefer the 25 or the 28 version? I don't know, the DB28 is more impressive but the DB25 is more wearable as an everyday watch I guess.
Then came the Skybridge, again another different world, no copy of existing models. I think very fine craftmanship and "metal-blueing" mastery, but maybe not the one I would pick.
And came, another major step in the collection building with the 2014 collection: the DW5, very nice aesthetics even if I really don't see myself wearing one (very nice on a pictures or a table but I don't like it when I see it on a wrist though).
And boom, it is launched together with the Digitale. Quite unique decoration, still very DB in the mix modern/classic.
But I think that what DB has prepared for Basel with the fantastic DB28&DB29 maxichronos is overwhelming.
One of the best style, with one of the best calibers (the decoration is unique, unseen and so beautiful, the design of the mechanics seems also to reach high tops).
This is a movement I will really be looking forward to reading about (friction issues, co-axial solutions).
Last but not least, the 2 pictures of the enameled DB is haunting me since yesterday.... (especially the blue ring/white dial center).
Oh My Mo, what am I gonna do!
Let things cool down a bit but Db won't leave us alone, will they?
Cheers, Mark