Thanks a lot, Daos, for this very vivid and entertaining article. You make excellent points for your "case", and your writing is full of charm and humour. Well done! And I praise you for acknowledging that the ROOs are not to everyone's taste. Sven
During the summer-time I often use my Certina DS Furious , especially on vacations. It's informal, cool, relatively inexpensive, yet very comfortable and of good quality. And the good thing is: You don't have to worry about setting or winding the watch. It's always ready to be worn. The quartz movem
The GO is a very attractive watch with a high degree of versatility. It seems highly wearable both as a formal dress-watch and as a daily watch at the office. However, I consider the RL to be more grail-ish, first of all because of its movement which has its equals among time-only movements on this
Very thorough and accompanied by fantastic photos. You make a very convincing case for this watch, and I must admit that the aesthetics of Sarpaneva grows on me - having been quite skeptical originally. No doubt that Sarpaneva has found his niche in the world of horology, and being done with such gr
He has created a watch, which manages to display an outstanding tourbillon, both technically and aesthetically - and!!! at the same time performing a highly functional, legible design, where you can easily tell the time. So many designs with excessive use of show-off tourbillons have neglected that
A unique and luxurious time-piece by very kind and dedicated watchmaker. I have had the privilege of meeting Mr. Smith once, thereby trying two of his very first versions, and they are really very impressive. I love the classic English non-decoration of the movement, which also makes this watch very
The Shimoda is such a daring piece. To create a watch so powerful and potent around a single hand display. I think perhaps this watch more than any other PSM reflects the subtle balance between old and new, tradition and ingenuity, masculinity and femininity. The photos are just ... bravo!
Because the numerals fit with the watch. Which, unfortunately, cannot be said about those with raised markers and numerals at 3, 6, 9 and 12. On those (alas, majority of) dials the numerals don't fit aesthetically. They are much too small and too neat for the otherwise masculine impression of the la