Peter
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more than three weeks....
Mar 15, 2024,19:36 PM
...of wearing the alpine eagle XPS more or less continuously. and i still don't know completely how i feel about it. here are a few thoughts. the contrast of the pink dial and
the white metal hands and indices (white gold?) is strikingly beautiful and gives real three-dimensionality to the dial. the roman numerals - not sure they
are needed and possibly the watch could look better with simple batons. the bracelet could certainly taper one or two millimeters more - the same criticism
applies to the VC overseas although i hear this was fixed in this year's update. back to the XPS: possibly the bracelet has been designed to recall the chopard ice-cube bracelets and
therefore tapering was ruled out. legibility is excellent, which i definitely appreciate.
the polished center links of the bracelet (which appeal to me, think ice-cube again) are definitely scratch magnets but there are those evil people saying that i scratch all my watches anyway::
))
is the watch grail level of integrated-bracelets elegant sports watches? i don't know but i don't even know why the nautilus is. i feel that the RO is possibly still on a different levels. with the XPS though, i realize that
i get a lot of compliments from ladies....even my wife likes it and she usually dislikes bracelet watches. there seems to be a 'female' side to it (which i like).