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something like this might be hard to differentiate until you got quite close. Many previous fakes just used round case screws; now even those are being (badly) copied. Ciao tutti, Theodore

Hi cheaper, No, that is not quite the case, I am afraid I have not been clear. The versions don't get upgraded to new versions with a servicing. Version 1 titanium and Version 2 nanofiber are some years apart and radically different in their internal assembly and parts design. Such a change would re

Hello Ron, Indeed the main difference between the two is that the version 1 has a titanium baseplate and the version 2 has a carbon nanofiber baseplate. This difference is very easy to see with the naked eye. More tricky are the different incremental changes within version 2. There were several chan

Hello Mr. Oh, Your email - sent via the website this afternoon, Saturday the 8th February - was well received and a response already sent the same day. Companies in the EU are not open during weekends, and until offices open on Monday, little can be done to find out the cause of the bottle-neck, for

Hello all, Just for clarity's sake regarding the article shown here and subsequent responses: We have always had lots of questions about the numbers produced and our turnover from journalists and we thought it was finally time to tell more about those issues publicly. The information here is actuall

If he just made it with titanium, and did not engrave the fact on the caliber (like he did previously) no-one would have bothered with it at all ! As goldenlutin correctly pointed out, anyone can make a Swiss patent; it is not researched the same way as they do elsewhere in the world. The Swiss let

Yes, I heard the same story indeed... However, I sincerely doubt anyone (read: company) can actually patent the use of titanium for a balance wheel, in the same way that one cannot patent milk as a health drink ;-0) The usage/functionality 'titanium balance wheel 's too broad and not specific enough

The pricing of precious metal cases for watches is always partly an historical/emotional issue. The price of PT and gold are not so very far apart in the reality of the metals marketplace, but once it goes into a watch case, suddenly one pays a much higher premium for Pt. Part of that can be (correc

Hi all, All the best quality 18K white gold, (not the 9KT high street costume jewellery stuff and the like), has a high Palladium content, so Palladium can be used in more ways than one ;-0) If I recall correctly, there were already a few brands about 10 years back who also used a purer form of Pall

to see one of my of my old postings from the year 2004 resurrected! Thought for a moment there was a doppelgänger of me out there on the purists ;-0) I wonder what else might be lurking in the horological cabinetto puristico of times past? Ciao tutti, Theodore