Horological Meandering

Some of the new watch releases from this year caught my attention in a way that they are now part of my collection. Nothing super fancy or highly complicated ...or outrageously priced,but just well made watches that spoke to me. 1. The dive watches that f...  

The Chopard LUC XPS is so beautiful.

...or at least this is what I am expecting )) .

Btw very nice pics, did you made them? How comes that there are no light reflections on the watches? Amazing!!!

With my photo set-up I definitely try to avoid (or control) any unwanted reflections.

If you don’t mind me asking, what made the Chopard the winner? Any thoughts on the FF? I’m particularly interested in your thoughts because so much of your 2024 purchases lined up with watches I had felt something for myself.

The proportions are great for my wrist and the movement is a real piece of high horology. The overall package really did it for me and I also feel that this is the best value high horology watch of the year ! And I believe that it is just good looking !! ... 

Admittedly, I’m more a vintage person as I have an interest in a watches relationship to the history of horology. That said you get 10+ on style points here. It’s also interesting to see how the corpus of a collection expresses the aesthetic of the collec... 

If you don’t mind me asking, what made the Chopard the winner? Any thoughts on the FF? I’m particularly interested in your thoughts because so much of your 2024 purchases lined up with watches I had felt something for myself.