Blancpain

Has anyone here had problems with the reliability of the Leman Flyback Chronograph? I was talking to a friend who has the same watch today, and he was telling me about how the flyback function would intermittently stop working, how the watch had to go bac... 

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...and did the first service just a few weeks ago. It is the only watch he wears daily! No issues what's so ever. He's more than content...

I have had two of them--a Monaco YS, and a Ti model. They were both purchsed new. The Monaco's minute register never advanced past the five minute mark. Thinking that I had a fluke bad experience, two years later I purchased a Ti flyback that had an even ... 

It is my understanding that the F.Piquet 1185 is used in the Royal Oak chrono and the VC chrono. This caliber was used as a foundation for the current Rolex chrono, which has been shown to be reliable. To me, reliabilty is the most important aspect of a m... 

and the Piguet 1185. They are very different movements in many respects and it's not possible to say that the Rolex 4130 is 'based on' the 1185 in any meaningful way. Of course, they're both chronographs, but they're significantly different movements. Jac... 

They are both round Regards, MTF

... might be that of the heaf watchmaker of Austria's Swatch Group Service Centre. In Vienna, all Austrian Blancpains with Piguet 118x, all Breguet Type XX with L?mania movement, and all Omega chrongoraphs, both, conventional and co-axial are serviced (an...