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the original Tradition has a balanced elegance to it
,but i'm afraid to say, despite its interesting inside out, back to front arrangement, this is all out of balance and looks untidy. the dial is in a very strange place.
thomas Ninchritz do a Visa versa with dial in the same place. it may be a Unitas 6498 and not a tourbillon concept, but it looks far more tidy with cleaner lines. however, the back looks awful which i'm sure the Breguet doesnt.
finances permitting i would by a Tradition manual wind without a second thought, but i think i would go elsewhere for a tourbillon.
just my uneducated opinion
Graham
Andrew and Nicolas hit right...
...all it is in the angle of viewing this magnificent watch!!! Looking at it vertically there is no distortion and everything has the WOW!!! effect... the problem is that we look the watch rarely in this angle when we are wearing it, and then the distorti...
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I don’t have the precise specifications, but the Tourbillon is a 42mm watch (compared with 37/38mm for the original manual/automatic La Tradition) and the dial is definitely larger at around 18mm compared with the originals’ 14mm (which matches the size o...
Dear Andrew, since...
...it seems that I am already to the ten (and more) years point, I thank God for multifocal glasses, that as an ophthalmologist, I have the luxury to prescribe to my self, not reading small print, but looking at the dials of my Breguets ... regards tassos
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Hi Tassos We don’t get to ‘talk’ so often these days; hope you are well. I also miss Jack’s ‘performance’ posts about the accuracy of his Marine chronometer. You are right about aging eyes. The following analogy is bit of a stretch, but I have a friend wh...
