Horological Meandering

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PRE-BASEL: big watches redefined…

Hot off the press : spy pics of the new watch designed to leave the Panerai Egiziano in its wake.

The skeleton work on the movement is as delicate as that of any VC yet paradoxically it is mounted in a case which has the ‘hard’, industrial finish of  a Sarpaneva or Romain Jerome ‘Titanic’. The unusual complication is a month-only date wheel, intended for the ultra-rich who only need to know what month it is, in order to choose between Aspen or Monaco.

Strictly a piece unique. It will take a big wrist and a bigger wallet to carry it off:

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Trick photography, you say? Here for the sake of comparison, photographed alongside a ‘standard’ watch:

What is the standard watch in the photo? No prizes for guessing:

;-)

Cheers,

pplater.