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 On: 2005-10-15
This is an incredibly beautiful dress watch, and richly deserves its place in the permanent collections of art museums.
On the other hand, this watch supports the theory that the "dressiness" of a watch is in inverse proportion to its functionality. This is the opposite end of the spectrum from the Breitling multi-dial pilots watches with the slide rule in the bezel and the Suunto X9 GPS watch (extremely functional, but just doesnt go with a tuxedo).
As handsome as this watch is, it doesnt even have hour markings! It tells you roughly what time it is, +/- 5 minutes or so. To be fair, it seems very accurate, but the lack of markings means no precision (if it says noon, it is noon and it doesnt seem to gain or loss time, but you cant distinguish what minute it is).
On the whole, a lovely piece of jewelry, but of only marginal utility as a timepiece.
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