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Which Octo Finissimo would you choose?
Dec 08, 2020,09:10 AM
I currently have been wearing the lovely Octo Finissimo Automatic Tourbillon titanium 6 days out of the week. It’s fantastic as a daily wearer, but I’m confronted with a new opportunity to purchase the Octo Finissimo Minute Repeater titanium as a very fair price. I’m in the midst of consolidating my collection and would not want to keep both so if I do purchase the Minute Repeater, the Tourbillon goes. Here are my pros and cons for each —
Automatic Tourbillon:
-ludicrously thin at 3.95mm
-amazing dynamic dial with flying tourbillon
Minute Repeater:
-40mm vs 42mm of the Tourbillon
-more complex(?) movement of the repeater
-more understated
-sapphire back
-more legible
Having worn the Tourbillon for a while there are 2 additional very small annoyances: 1) the movement is loud, 2) I can only set the minutes in increments of 5 since depressing the time set pusher locks the hand back to the closest 5 minutes.
Given this opportunity, what would you choose?