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Horological Meandering: Even today I see this watch listed by Casio under “women’s G-Shock.” They might be missing a trick here.
As for spending $30,000 on a watch: I’d much rather put that money into buying something that made sense for me. The RO doesn’t. It was once an iconoclast: it broke convention and made the future. Now it’s the opposite - a so-called icon - which by definition represents the past. The past of course
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Horological Meandering: My newest and cheapest watch, and it's a ladies edition too.
It's possible that a recent excursion into AP section of WPS - where I felt slightly overwhelmed by all the ROs - got to me.
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Audemars Piguet: Lovely. Thanks for sharing. I would have plumped for yours but I've just emerged from a vein of buying YG/RG watches, and liked the ivory dial this time.
As for the crossed 4, I'm going to hazard a guess: it's a delicate nod to the Christian tradition of its designers. It didn't appear on the font that A-L Breguet himself designed. All of the the numerals are heavily stylised but only the 4 bears this additional touch. It has to have a significance a
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Zenith: Piece "Eew"nique?
What are these? Jacob & Co.? My eyes fail me. I quite like the first one. Tourbillon revolution. The second one is hideous and an affront to native populations everywhere. The only thing that could possibly be worse than this is a world time watch that celebrates that harbinger of genocide Chris
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Independents: You're right that there are (a) dial, (b) case and (c) movement aesthetics to consider, and for mechanical watches all three together
The watch pictured above a humble mechaquartz so direct comparisons can be made for (a) and (b). For (c) it is likely superior to any mechanical watch in terms of timekeeping accuracy, while being plain to look at. It offers performance if not soul.
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