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White gold normal for me
Sep 03, 2020,20:09 PM
First and foremost, the GO Chronometer's hands HAVE to be blue - this rules out blue dial.
The Regulator although intriguing just doesn't really work for the Chronometer for three reasons.
1) THE focal point of the Chronometer is in my opinion its lovely lovely hands (which again, must be in blue) - they have to be next to each other for this to work, and of a significant enough size so you can really appreciate its beauty. Given the hour hand is much smaller and away from the minute hand on the Regulator, it just totally takes that away and therefore has lost its most important essence and focal point.
2) Forgive me for not knowing the exact term/name, but the central bit that holds and turns the minute hand is just way too big on the Regulator, to the extend that to me it becomes an eyesore. I'm not sure why it has to be so large. As it only operates one hand it just really sticks out and doesn't work aesthetically to me.
3) This is again very personal and can seem somewhat contradictory, but the Chronometer just has a lot more balanced dial layout with the two sub-circles at 12 and 6. Adding one more circle at 9 on the Regulator just doesn't work. Yes, it's a bit contradictory to say the Chronometer is "balanced" given there's a date at 3, but there's also the logo at 9 to balance that. Again just aesthetically, the Regulator doesn't work here for the above reasons.
This brings me to the normal WG or LE - I don't like the LE simply because of its bezel lol. I think it makes it a lot busier than it should be. The dial alone already offers enough for one to see, and is where the focus should be. The bezel just ruins it for me.