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Recovery era, perhaps?

 

The Big Pilot 43 is the best thing they've come up with in years. I am really impressed with this model.
I couldn't stand what Kern was doing in terms of bringing almost the entire line > 42mm, the over-reliance on brand ambassadors at the expense of a drop in execution standard (compare a 3706 dial / hand to its 3717 successor, for instance), the gaudy designs running contrary to the brand's understated DNA (e.g. Ingenieur Zinedine Zidane).
And the fact that he is a cynical marketeer (cf. his speech at the 2011 World Minds in Zurich) with an enormously high opinion of himself.

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