In my personal collection, I have a unique Kari Voutilainen Decimal Repeater that he dubbed "Tantalor"
Nov 25, 2019,11:51 AM
It has a tantalum case with white gold bezels/crown/slide. Because tantalum is so difficult to work, one can only imagine making a case like this by hand!!
1988 seems to be the first wrist watch using a tantalum ( with rose gold ) case, and it is a... Jaeger Lecoultre. The Odysseus Chronograph with Moon Phase. We also had the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Off Shore Orchard Road, And the Royal Oak PuristS 10th An...
Shown at the lower right of the photo, the tantalum RO Championship was a small, quartz Royal Oak in honor of Nick Faldo. It was my first AP, bought on impulse in Hong Kong the day I discovered the octagon. Diane Keaton once took my wrist to admire it. Ev...
Thank you, Nico. 14 years later, I still have three of these, have replaced two that I scratched up with newer versions of the same, and replaced three others with RO models I liked even more. I guess that makes me the kind of collector whose tastes evolv...
It has a tantalum case with white gold bezels/crown/slide. Because tantalum is so difficult to work, one can only imagine making a case like this by hand!! ...