Horological Meandering

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breitling flying b, chronoswiss delphis to name but 2

personally i am biased towards the chronoswiss delphis as it has all 3 types of display. jump hour(24 hour), retro minutes and subsecond. and i own one which is the best reason to be biased. chronoswiss also do the Digiteur which is a tank cased jump hour.

i'm not a big fan of tank cases or overt car branding which makes the Breitling 'for Bentley' flying B a no no for me.

there are a lot of watches out there with jump hour, but apart from the GG already mentioned i cant think of anymore off the top of my head.

here's a couple of pics for you as we cant have a post without pics can we

i personally think that Chronoswiss are a very overlooked company. they have excellent ethics, using in the main, vintage movements that they have stored for years. this is, if i'm not mistaken, an Enicar base movement from the 1940-50's, but you'd never know it. the finish is not at the level of PP. UN. AP or VC, but equal to most others. they dont go over the top, but what they do they do well. everything from lugs to buckles to deployment clasps are screwed in. even the tab that goes through the strap holes on the deployment is screwed in so the strap cant just pop out. solid silver dial and solid gold rotor is standard on all their watches i think. case has a nice solid feel even with the solid gold bezels front and rear(on the 2 tone of course).

mine doesnt see enough wrist time. must do something about that.

Graham