Since I've been focusing on Minute Repeaters yesterday (Patek's 7047G and Gérald Genta's ref. EBFE01A1 ), here's another one from Audemars Piguet , which I like a lot. This is the Jules Audemars “ Répétition Minutes Heures Sautantes ” (Jumping Hours Minut...
What surprised me most seeing this in person was the depth and texture of the dial - the numerals were quite raised and three dimensional, and the dial itself had a rich frosting effect - both which can only be appreciated in person. On top of that - what...
I agree with you that this hand-wound minute repeater movement is absolutely wonderful and I also think that this is one of AP's most elegant MRs. The version you have tried on has a "non-guilloché" dial: it seems to be very attractive too, but I might ha...
I personally don’t like them. The solid guilloche dial speaks to me much more. Best, Emmanuel PS: the MR is activated by the slider, no secret button here as far as I know.
I've read the post where Peter mentions this feature: www.watchprosite.com / But I'm very surprised that Tim Mosso doesn't mention it in his review of 26356PT.OO.D028CR.01...