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Mr. Andersen uses an A Schild (AS) base movement upon which he fits a

 

Louis Cottier style world time module.

Louis Cottier first implemented this world time display module back in the 1930's (?), and several top name brands have used this system, including Patek Philippe (the world record for highest price paid for a wrist watch is a platinum Patek world time using the Cottier system), Breguet (in their Hora Mundi) and Vacheron Constantin in a special edition for the Japanese market.

Mr. Andersen is quite open about both the base movement he uses and the world time display design and its history, something quite refreshing in the high mech watch world.

The size of the 1884 is quite nice - large enough to satisfy the preference for larger than 36mm cases these days, yet proportioned well enough, at 10mm, to still look elegant.

Quite a nice watch.

Regards,

TM

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A very special offer until the end of the month for serious watch connoisseur's

 
By: ThomasM : June 5th, 2004-07:19
and collectors... Dear fellow high horology fans, I am only now just starting to dig into the huge amount of stuff I collected in half a day at Basel and two days in Geneva. I planned to announce this as soon as I got back, but real life got in the way. A...  

Very nice indeed....

 
By: HPQ : June 5th, 2004-10:22
The best looking world time watch IMHO. Can anyone tell me what base movement is used in this watch?

A beautiful watch

 
By: ASG : June 7th, 2004-03:15
I think this watchis truly stunning and the price is highly attractive for the quality of Mr. Andersen's work. However, I do find one minor flaw.....Will Mr. Anderson make a custom dial? New York is not represented on the dial - Washington is in it's plac... 

Nice watch......but his dial supplier needs a dictionary .....

 
By: Evitzee : June 7th, 2004-06:18
Anchorage is misspelled. In fact, I have one of his original 1985 Communication models and Anchorage was misspelled on that model as well. IMO, no excuse at this level of execution.

Ancorag, Rekiavik and Sidney >>

 
By: MTF : June 8th, 2004-02:02
"In many whereof there is ancorage for 500 sayle of ships of any burthen; in some of them for 5000: And more than 200 Iles ouergrowne with good timber, of diuers sorts of wood, which doe make so many harbours as requireth a longer time th...