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TheMadDruid
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It is a bigger watch than the Bleu, and it looks it;

especially when they are next to each other. Part of this is an optical illusion-the RG is brighter than the Tantalum, and although the dial is black your eyes will be drawn to the rather large white hour/minute dial within a dial. These two elements combine to "enlarge" the watch. And it is a mm or so thicker than the Bleu. But it is by no means a big watch. Nor is it heavy. It fits any shirt you wear. And it looks good no matter what your dress is. Or pants.
There is also an incredible coolness factor-this is perhaps the only time-only watch you can play with. If you hold the watch to your ear you can hear two distinct ticking patterns. Both the one-second remontoir and the sweep seconds are audible so you hear a TICK tick tick tick TICK tick tick tick...
Additionally, when the watch has been left unwound for about 50 hours or so the remontoir hand starts to stutter and jump; and the dead seconds hand on the movement side becomes a sweep seconds hand. AND, it still keeps an incredibly accurate rate. Once you wind the crown beyond the red indicator (bringing the power reserve beyond 20-25 hours) the remontoir reverts to its normal beat, and the dead second hand does as well. Very cool.

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