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What’s your favorite big date?
One of the most useful complications, IMO, is the big date. With this post, I'd like to offer an overview of the proposals available on the market.
The photographic material has not been produced by me: the pictures come from the internet or they’re taken from catalogues and magazines. For each Maison, I suggest only a watch, except for De Grisogono. On this page, you’ll find the big dates whose operation is explained by a specific image or it’s evident for the transparency of the dial. Please find a second page with all the other proposals I have collected.
What’s your favorite big date?
Ciao!
A. Favre et Fils Phoenix 10.1
A. Lange & Söhne Lange 31
Blancpain Léman Aqua Lung Grande Date
Carl F. Bucherer Patravi EvoTec DayDate
Chopard L.U.C 150 “All-in-One”
De Grisogono Instrumento Grande Chrono
De Grisogono Instrumento Grande Open Date
Eberhard Extra-Fort Roue à Colonnes Grande Date
Eterna Vaughan Big Date
Girard Perregaux Vintage 1945 King Size
Glashütte Original Senator Rattrapante
Harry Winston Ocean Dual Time
H. Moser & Cie Perpetual 1
Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Grande Date
Maitre du Temps Chapter Two
Pequignet Rue Royal
Pierre DeRoche GrandCliff TNT Penta
Richard Mille RM011-Felipe Massa
Ulysse Nardin Sonata Cathedral Dual Time
Vianney Halter Trio Grande Date
Zenith Traveler Minute Repeater Alarm
This message has been edited by heartbreaker on 2010-06-27 14:44:25
What’s your favorite big date?
One of the most useful complications, IMO, is the big date. With this post, I'd like to offer an overview of the proposals available on the market. The photographic material has not been produced by me: the pictures come from the internet or they’re taken...
...the other proposals I have collected
Breguet Marine 5817BE/Z2/5V8 Bulgari Collection Daniel Roth Endurer Chronosprint Clerc Hydroscaph Big Date Power Reserve Concord C1 Big Date Davidoff Very Zino Dual Time Big Date F.P. Journe Octa Réserve Frank Muller Cintrée Curvex Limited Edition Jaquet ...
among ALL
i have to admit the Jaquet Droz piece has a presence and an aura which are hard to be achived by others . i personally love it the most . Faisal
welcome to the forum Heartbreaker, a great selection of big dates
my favourite big date would be blonde, tallish. intelligent, early 30's with loads of money, but i dont own one of those the only big date i own is the UN Ludwig Perpetual so i suppose by default it has to be my favourite so far. you have shown some great...
In general I am in favor of no date at all,
but The Vianney Halter Trio is for me the coolest watch with a large date and one of the coolest watches around. GEO
A very interesting and informative grouping of images
Very nice first post and particularly interesting to see the various combinations of numbers, mechanism and disk designs and orientations to display the final two-digit date. Your post demonstrates the variety of solutions to the Grand Date display. I won...
My Favourite: Union Diplomat Panoramadatum
It seems to have faded into obsurity... but that takes nothing away from this very well balanced example: As I've stated before... I'm bewildered why there aren't any other examples like it....
Unfortunately, Union discontinued the use of own movements ...
The watch you have shown uses the panorama date also used by Glashütte Original. Unlike Union, GO normally placed its panorama date at 4 o'clock. Peronslly, I always preferred the Union way of placement, above 6. Meanwhile, GO, too, uses this placeme...
i like the GP and Breguet
I find the Laureato Evo3 moon to be one of the best looking big dates in the market, so does the Breguet Marine.
What a great 1st post, Heartbreaker!
Welcome here, first. As for your question, my favourite big date is between JLC and Lange... Hmmmmm...Lange, with the Datograph, closely followed by JLC with the 70eme. Then, I would say... The U.N Sonata. The funny thing is that I didn't buy these watche...
My favorite big dates:
When I hear the mention of big dates, I immediately think of ALS. cheers fernando...
+1 Fernando... but I'm biased
You can't go wrong with ALS' big date implementation. Love that button at 10 O'clock!
+1 ...
But first of all Lange 1 comes to my mind The shown BP Aqua Lung Grand Date is a very nice sporty watch, which gives my dad lots of pleasure. Oliver
+2..................
I also think of Lange & Sohne, when the words big date are mentioned ans specifically the Datograph. Welcome to the forum and what a lovely thread by way of introducing yourself. By the way how many (if I may ask) of the photos shown are of your actua...
Aaah, this Cabaret platinum with its black dial...
You're Fernando The Merciless on this one... Best, Nicolas...Still hunting.
Favorite Big Date
Hi, great post! I own several incl. ALS, Breguet, JLC, BP. But my absolute favorite is Blancpain Aqua Lung. The reason is not only the big date but the incredible dial. I will not send a picture because NO picture can do justice Aqua Lung's dial. It is th...
"Blancpain Aqua Lung"
You forgot to mention the extra cool quick (!) switch at midnight Oliver
At midnight
I like to watch to the eyes of a charming woman - seldomly the change of the date in my Aqua Lung. However, I am really of the opinion that Aqua Lung is very under valuated. I got from a Blancpain Boutique a brushed X-71 steel bracelet for this watch and ...
fantastic post
Thanks! I like the big date on the Moser Perpetual 1 best, because it is presented without any dividing lines between the numerals. The Laureato Evo 3 looks similar but I think this is achieved by two transparent discs (?) so I would rank that second. The...
Two votes here...
Is that a 'double date'??? ;-) Looking forward to seeing more of your thoughts, Heartbreaker. Cheers, pplater....
Many thanks to all of you!
For your interesting replies, for your warm welcome and also for your congratulations! I worked on this post for several days and I'm glad it got this success. I'm also very proud it has been inserted between the "Editor's Picks" in the Front Page. And no...
I had three and kept the best of them.
I had the Breguet Marine and the Daniel Roth Athys III, which was not mentioned here. I only have the Grosse Langematik now:...
Tremendous post and follow-ups!
I never really thought about all those mechanical variations, and they're certainly fascinating.
Great proposals, but when we say big date I think ...
that Lange comes first to our mind. Aris...
GOs big date for sure...
... having the discs at the same level is a much more beautiful construction. Glashuettes Senator Calendar Week is a fantastic looking piece with two openings, one for the date and one for the week number, plus a hand for day of the week. Extremely balanc...
My only one is a GO
Although not the non-plus-ultra of big date watches, the only one I could afford ! A Lange perhaps one day would be my personal favourite. Regards, anaesdoc...