This watch really does it for me. I am very much in favor of the movement taking up the entire case, no movement-ring or other space-waster. I especially like the idea of placing the seconds pivot halfway between the center pivots and the edge of the dial to make the subseconds dial as large as poss
design. The rather extreme lengths Rolex has to go to to give the Deepsea its 12,800' rating, with its 5mm-thick domed crystal, the super-heavy case, the titanium back, etc., all make the watch needlessly thick and oversized for most wearers, especially actual divers unfortunately. When I bought my
revealing that the movement is too small for the case. With the new larger cases now in favor, we see too much of this, movements not fitting the case. I'd rather see an old, HW caliber used so the subseconds is close to the '6' where it belongs.
A PuristS Edition version of the Chopard LUC 1963 Chronometer? Aso in a steel case, with heat-blued hands? Possibly with a choice of white or black dial? THAT I would go for in a big way!
The PuristS Edition of the LUC 1963 Chrono looks 101X better than the 'standard edition'. An amazing design job. The lack of date is much to be preferred, the steel case, the black dial, everything is for the better and in a big way. Congrats to all involved!
Patek has a wonderfully beautiful caliber in their lineup, employed in their 980 series of hunter-style or Savonnette pocket watches. On their website they call it 'Caliber 17''' SAV PS'. At 17 lignes, it's just a hair over 38.5mm and 3.8mm thin. It would fit perfectly in a slim 8-9mm, oversize Cala
A few years ago I went into a watch shop dealing mostly with 'previously-loved' PP and Rolex, looking for a 5296 in RG. They happened to have one in WG. I looked at it and noticed the left side of the case was quite scratched up, as though the previous owner had stored it crown up at night and the t
It occurs to me that, while Patek is updating the sizes of many of their new 3-handed watches to close to 40mm, they have not updated the movements to match. Thus their HW/small seconds models have their seconds hands snugged up close to the center, looking quite awkward. The auto models have the da