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Thank You, Don
Nice report and as an owner of a caliber 801, it is absolutely gorgeous and very well finished. Congratulations to Roland on his 20th anniversary!
RGM at the GTE 2012
By: DonCorson : January 22nd, 2012-13:03
RGM at the GTE 2012 Roland Murphy came to the GTE with his 3rd US made in house calber. This calber is named the Caliber 20 to celebrate the 20th aniversary of the opening of his shop. We got to see this nicely finished form movement, the first complete w...
More about motor barrels
By: aaronm : January 22nd, 2012-19:10
In a traditional watch the mainspring is wound from by the central arbor and turns the watch mechanism from the outside of the barrel. In a motor-barrel design, everything is reversed, the watch is wound from the outside and drives from the arbor (it's mo...
Love the Cal 20
By: JDowning : January 22nd, 2012-20:13
I do not love all of their watches, but I do own a pre-in house pilot that I like a lot. This form movement with moon phase seems like it should be a real winner. I like that RGM is an "honest" watchmaker, meaning that they are fairly straight forward abo...