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decoration!!

hi nicolas

the decoration so called on the plates-perlage,geneva stripes etc is their for a purpose of trapping some of the microscopic dust particules.

depending on what other decoration/pleaseing to the eye is used will not inprove its performance- the whole idea of the watch is to display the time as accuratly as possible.

for me the decoration is not that important as to the quality of the mechanical parts that go to make up the movement. i would rather the time was spent to getting the cased up watch to run in all 9 positions to observatory standard of the highest order and the boundaries of accuracy pushed to there limits.

if the caseback was not glass and movements visable you would not be able to see the finish/skeletonised to compare-of cause a high standard of finish is very important to a limit but not the be and end all.if the movement is of good quality then automatically the finish will be also.

i must also get to one of my other bug bares-tourbillons which were invented by A L BREGUET for the pocket watch that sits pendant up mostly

in the breast pocket.today they are fitted to almost all ranges of wristwatch and are more of a gimmick-but not all of cause some well made ones are very good - but most are  just for show and to multiply the cost by 5 to 10 time the standard watch price without the tourbillon-but look good .the average wrist movement should compensate for positional deviations. to some degree.

so nicolas i am at the other end of the spectrum to you on decoration-for me its supreme quality, plain, and accuracy at its limits- with solid caseback.

regards paul