Horological Meandering

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I will offer the counter example - when I was 8 and on holiday

in Somerset with my parents, Concorde was running a test flight right over head in a remote part of the county.  We caught it on cinefilm (for the youngsters here, that was with a cine-camera that you had to load, wind, and then film at a set rate, f-stop, and focus - a lot to think about).

Concorde from then on was always a magical plane for me.  When I heard it was going out of service, I was too busy to book and I now wish to God that I had.  I feel as if it will be another century before we see its like again.  It would be like finding out that some lucky people in the 1930's were running around with and using an Apple i-Phone.  Given that kind of requirement, not sure any watch really does fit the description.  Given this requirement - if the Freak will revolutionize the industry, then the series 1 Freak would qualify as the Concorde watch (for so many reasons - materials, design, aesthetics, ability of Ludwig Oechslin to design and implement new forms, that UN probably made no money at all on the first series of the Freak due to R&D, and construction costs).

Still love the plane and wish it was flying.

Andrew H