Independents

proudly announced the creation of their Eternal Calendar perpetual calendar. A nice, though a watch that wears huge, addition to their perpetual calendar line, they say that their moon phase indicator will be accurate for 4500 years (a feat no doubt but it is only a mathematical calculation for who will check that claim?  For sure within 450 years clocks will be imbedded in our brains and there will be no need for wristwatches - heresy I know).  Seriously, they also brag about their creation of a secular calendar that takes into account the 400 year correction for leap year.  Journalists have been drooling over the watch and some say it was the highlight of the recently completed WW.  They neglect to say that Svend Andersen created such a complication, included in a much more wearable watch, in 1996, in time to prove his complication at the change of the millennium.  



Happy for IWC but they are way behind the times.

Vlad years xD....

I might need Vlad to bite me a few more times.

But I guess that reinforces your point that no one will be around to check!!

It may be mathematically accurate for 45 M years but to an astronomical point of view it is not as the watch does not take into account that the Moon is slowly but constantly drifting away from the Earth.

I still think the Eternal Calendar looks pretty, apart from the hole in the dial.
All the best,
Jon

Would have something to say as well as time is changing as the universe expands

In this specific case Einstein as little to say. General relativity is not a factor when things are small enough and by "small" I mean the Solar system, where only the Mercury orbit is affected by relativistic effects and everything else is described perfectly by the "old style" Newton gravitation theory.

Thanks for putting me in my proper place (I mean that sincerely).
mk

I'm sorry if I did, it wasn't intentional.

I know when I’m out of my league.
We’re just raising the educational bar of the website. 😉

The point of this hobby is that you have to love what you’re wearing / collecting. At least IMO. Many brands from conglomerates have lost their soul.
This watch is absolutely beautiful. I have never heard of this before. Thank you so much for sharing.

So many of the independents fly under the radar and their contributions to the field of horology is either lost or overwhelmed by the hype that consumes much of the public’s time and journalistic space.

...the IWC is not only a secular perpetual calendar but it's an "Eternal" perpetual calendar and as such not only it takes into account the non-leap year centuries but if works (or should work, as no one would be here to verifiy) until the year 4000, for which is not defined in the Gregorian Calendar if it will be a leap year or not.

But I also think independents (and I am throwing in brands like Patek, AP and Rolex in this bucket) are the driving force behind the industry. It appears that brands that are a part of the bigger groups lag behind and play catch up. There are examples of this not being true (like bulgari or even Piaget) but it’s just my opinion of course.