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Thanks for an interesting report, Don!
Mar 29, 2009,13:00 PM
I'm sure this is the first time I've ever seen "browned" titanium hands. That's pretty unique and does add dimension to the dial, as does all the various guilloche/engine turning techniques on display. Thanks for sharing these watches with us.
Cheers,
Daos
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Baselworld 2009 - Rainer Nienaber
By: DonCorson : March 29th, 2009-01:21
AHCI member Rainer Nienaber showed the full range of his retrograde watches. Mr. Nienaber offers custom dials and hands for his customers. Note here the brown color titanium hands. This is from a heat treatment like bluing steel, only at a much higher tem...
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By: DonCorson : March 30th, 2009-13:39
Somehow I forgot these nice Regulators yesterday...
that second one in brass (?) is gorgeous
By: Ophiuchus : March 30th, 2009-20:22
It looks like a naval instrument of some kind, as if it belonged festooned on the desk of a ship's captain- I want. That case design is just perfect, the ultimate. It's how I always imagined a naval chronometer for the wrist! Rainer definitely seems like ...