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Horological Meandering

Indeed...

 

...although perhaps not quite so drastic as a question of Life or Death. There are one or two watches that slip under the radar. They look fantastic in all the marketing shots. They look fantastic in the forum posts. They look fantastic under the carefully poised lighting of a boutique. They even look fantastic when you wear them out of a boutique into the full sun. Only later, when you are inside, or the day turns dull, do you realise that the hands/numerals/indices/features turn invisible unless the watch is held at an unnatural and uncomfortable oblique angle toward a light source of  >150,000 lux.  Even so, due to all of the factors that rendered it desirable in the first place, it retains its place in the watchbox for rotation on midsummer's day.  A case in point:

 

Cheers,

pplater.

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