
Sham1 recounts the unexpected opportunity to acquire a Grönefeld Remontoire after years of patient pursuit, highlighting the unique challenges and rewards of collecting independent watchmaking pieces. His post delves into the excitement of securing a highly coveted watch and the subsequent deliberation over dial options, inviting community input on aesthetic choices.



Always preferring simplicity - so the plain silver (champagne?) dial in combination with the blued hands is the most beautiful for me! Greets, Ron
My thoughts precisely.
These are such a nice watch, limited in number, that they deserve to be a bit more special looking than the moderately plain style that is your preferred choice. If there’s no chance whatsoever of the watch being sold say in the next 5 years, if ever, then go with what you absolutely prefer. That said, however, as a potential one-time purchase where you have option to customise the look, you may not have to make a decision right now as to what dial design it must have. Get in touch with Tim or B
If there was a choice to be made, it would be between the first and third one but the AD did tell me that my choice would have to accompany my order. I personally feel that the Remontoire is such a special watch that any dial would be fine and it then bores down to whether one prefers the simplicity of a plain silver dial or the check design of the Kari dial.
While Kari Voutilainen's guilloché dials are very attractive on their own, I always thought the bold lines of the "standard" dial design to be Grönefeld's signature design. It matches not only the bold design of the movement bridges but carries on the superb lines combining modern design with traditional watchmaking, created by the British designers Jones & Bowen for the original Parallax Tourbillon and One Hertz models. Jones & Bowen were also hired by Steven Holtzman to create the case des
And yes I think I shall stick to my original decision. Your argument makes perfect sense!
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