patrick_y
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The best sounding Westminster Chime I've ever heard on a watch!
Most watches that do the Westminster Chime (and there are only a very few) don't sound very good. But they're forgiven because it's so complex anyways and your expectations are tempered. When I saw this one at SIHH 2019 (or was that already W&W 2019, I forget), I was very skeptical. Ready to roll my eyes at this futile attempt to accomplish this impossible task. But when they played it, it was clear - the tone of the notes were correct. The volume level across the five notes were correct. Wow!
This is definitely a superlative piece from a superlative manufacture. A manufacture who takes on risky projects - with the real potential of failure - to make just a few watches that will never truly be significantly profitable for the brand. There's a reason why JLC is the watchmaker's watchmaker - they will do daring things that conservative brands simply won't do. When was the last time Vacheron Constantin did something truly groundbreaking that had a significant risk of failure? The high beat and slow beat Perpetual Calendar?
Bravo JLC. Bravo. While I don't plan on acquiring this Westminster Chime - I've got other bills to pay (namely clocks) - and it's a little big for my wrist, I do applaud the efforts of this amazing Maison. And thank you Amanico for mentioning it again! What a piece!
Saturday pleasure: Jaeger Lecoultre Gyrotourbillon 5.
A photo I took at the Manufacture, in 2019. A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. And they are right! Best, Nicolas ...
The best sounding Westminster Chime I've ever heard on a watch!
Most watches that do the Westminster Chime (and there are only a very few) don't sound very good. But they're forgiven because it's so complex anyways and your expectations are tempered. When I saw this one at SIHH 2019 (or was that already W&W 2019, ...
I was....
unsurprisingly hugely impressed when I saw it. The only piece that impressed me even more from the ones we were given access to was the Reverso Gyrotourbillon ........
Totally agree!
It's simply that I subjectively love the uniqueness of the Reverso so much, even a work of genius mad art like the 5 doesn't subjectively attract me quite as much as the Reverso.... Money no object, I would buy the Quadriptyque, then the Reverso Gyrotourb...
