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I love RGs work, but I feel it's a shame that this piece doesn't show off his excellent finishing work the same way the L1 and the Insight MicroRotor do.
This is a high(er) volume piece, and priced in a range that makes its available to a wider market and so presumably becomes a reliable revenue stream for the company. It would be interesting to get some insight to this from RG. I also think, and I’m far f...
No cutting corners and all components hand finished Remember that the movement is made of titanium so the hand finishing is also challenging but yet they did it too level
Got this one on order even not knowing how it will look like. Originally it was planned a bit differently, at least from the description. But when the Edition One was offered to me, I decided to flip and of course as long as you don‘t know how the C5 will...
I’m not sure if you are joking or not, but just in case you are not my assumption is that this is an attempt to show lighting and shadows and how light changes the dial. I stand to be corrected on this.
Really tempting... The texture on the dial seems to be quite well executed (as always with Romain) but obviously the outcome has to be seen in the metal... this kind of design / pattern on the dial might look odd in photo and just fantastic in the metal.....