Nice pictures of that beauty! Ludwig's perpetual is unbeatable. The visual layout of information and ease of setting far offsets the time it takes for the date to advance.
baby will require a turn of the crown and its good to go. Mine is a RG GMT+/- Perpetual. One trip to the spa in 20 years isn't bad. Still enjoy it. One of a number of innovations the brand brought to the market back in the day.
If not the small matter of $$$ I would love the Full Strike. The volume of the chimes is so crisp and loud it is truly amazing. Am going to be βsettlingβ it seems got the One Strike
Granted it is a gloriously loud and sonorous chime but the hourstriker chimes the number of hours on the hour and once on the half hour I wish for more chimes. That said the One Strike is an excellent advancement using the sapphire gong.