ztirual
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A tribute, really?
Apr 10, 2014,14:04 PM
As usual, a great presentation, amanico!
I am not a tribute watch type of guy...
And here again I actually think it would have been best to have left this legend of a watch alone. Or rather it would have been best to pay a real tribute to it. If not a parody, it is at least a popularization of a watch that was quite the contrary in its time. As you very rightly put it, the Geophysique of 1958 was quite an intellectual watch and because of its movement a bit of a swan song.
I do not quite follow your argument when you say that it would have been too expensive to develop a new movement, a nice hand wound chronometre. If JLC do not do it on this occasion, when then? I am sure watch afficinados would have been ready to pay a higher price for such a special watch.
Imho this version devaluates rather than pays a tribute to the original Geomatic.
I like its look, and that is very logical, because I adore the original one and this one is actually quite close to the original in terms of proportion, but that is about it...