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Oasgasparexcellent 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.
Yes Malik, I am aware of this 51% law obtained from authorities to restart and inflate the Swiss watch industry...Many crystals and other parts used by Swiss brands are coming from Asia.
What I was meaning is that stipulating "manufacture" on the movement already indicate that it is in fact conceived, machined and mounted in the same place, who belong to the brand...
Engravings on the movements are only certifying the movement, not the case or other watch parts: So this "100% Swiss-made" don't give any guarantee for other parts(other than the movement) in my eyes.
Of course, a movement could be stamped as "manufacture movement" and still have very small parts builded in another place or another land: It's often the case for the springs.
RogerD tried to signalize that they use only Swiss parts: Great move I say! But maybe not with the "100% Swiss made" because it just sound a bit wrong right there....That's why I came with the "Toutes pièces Suisses" (All Swiss parts) who would be a better appellation in my opinion...
By the way, I give you right about the Monégasque Club: This version with the "tourbillon cage" over the micro rotor is definitely more subtile.
