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excellent review Malik!...I look forward to your contributions on 3T...
Thanks, with great pleasure.
Hammerfjord wrote:
Great watches and beautiful micro-rotor movement. Maybe some titanium gray screws would have been a great contrast on the movement as RD didn't want to go for the usual blue ones...
I was surprised by the "100% swiss made" inscription on the rotor: Maybe a bit low targeted there...Like they was speaking of some cheese or any industrial food product...
Something like " All In-house production" or even better "Toutes pièces Suisses"(All Swiss pieces) for example, would have been enough if they wanted to precise it, when it's already stipulating "Manufacture Roger Dubuis" down the rotor.
A big Geneva seal on the rotor would have done the trick: It's enough proof also instead of long inscriptions...At list for the ones who know what it means.
Thanks Malik for the cool pictures and descriptions
I'am agree with your point on this inscription, is not the most classy way to explain it.
In fact I don't like this micro-rotor (it looks better on the Monégasque Club, with a king of "earth globe" engraved in gold):
http://rogerdubuis.com/complications/chronograph/movements/rd78
But for the "basical" Monégasque Chronographe (in pics in my report), an engraved gold rotor, as Patek or Lange should be better.
For the inscription, the "100% swiss made", is to explain in undirect but simple way, that the actual label "swiss made" represent 50% of the cost of the watch...
That mean, concretly, if your movemement, is assembly in China, and encased in Swiss, you can maybe can have the swiss made, due to the high cost of the work in swiss.
So as Roger Dubuis, made 90% all parts in their own manufactures (they buy thing like saphir glasses, spiral or straps), they promote the real swiss made.Last edited on Wed Nov 9th, 2011 06:34 am by pifpaf
