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Hammerfjord Moderator 
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Freshly arrived today, I've been seduced at once when I opened the box This "Carré" or square is one of the few models Revue-Thommen been creating from some new-old-stocks movements dating from them last inhouse production: In 1961. Mine has has a brown dial: I really like the warmth it gives to the watch. The top sapphire crystal has a fine blue reflect due to the AR coating. My dial wears the number 119 : This watch serial is apparently individualy numeroted and this detail is adding to the luxurious aspect in a nice way. It is also worked out in sun-rays as a hand-fan around the visible skeletonised and decorated movement. The case of only 38X38mm wears in fact bigger than that, as the 48mm diagonal-crosssing and the 12mm thickness are giving a very good wrist presence. It is also 48mm from lug to lug tips and It don't wear small at all on my 63mm wide wrist as showing on pictures. For sure, if the case was round and also 38mm, it would have been a whole different story but a square case seems perfect for this type of size. The watch is mounted on 20 to 18mm genuine aligator straps with a signed buckle: Very sweet and giving a luxurious look. The crown is signed also as often on R.T watches. Revue-Thommen isn't new on the watch market: It all started in 1853 at Waldenburg(Jura/Switzerland) and was taken over by Gedeon Thommen in 1859. You will find a bunch of infos there:http://www.since1853.co.uk/ From 1998, those NOS movements been reassembled, skeletonised and decorated to fit in the top of the range of Revue-Thommen. I simply love the skeletonized movement with "Perlage" and "Côtes de Genève" decorations with the fine blue screws. On the back, there is a half-moon sapphire glass showing the movement. The incabloc spring is there, even the movement is old. The rotor is engraved with "Production Manufacture" in gold and showing some very light spots from is age you can observe on the picture: After all, it is allready 50 years old... The automatic movement GT54(first named T54) has 22 jewels, 19800 bph, 42h power-reserve, doesn't have a hacking second and there is no date either... For the lume addicts, this is not the type. Who cares, it's a piece of horology history and that's all I wanted  NOW! THE PICTURES!!!        |
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Skipdawg 3T WIS 
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Nice! congrats and enjoy. |
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FnuSnu99 3T WIS 
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Well, as you pointed out, the lume sucks!!! But, other than that, it is just STELLAR! Mostly into divers (as you know:0) But have a "square" watch myself, for those suite-days, but nothing as sweet as this William, like it a lot. Congrats and enjoy my friend! |
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Hammerfjord Moderator
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Thanks guys! Square watches have some special attitude...I like them! It's my third after my Gevril Submariner and my Zenith. Well, Rolf, I'm not often dressed-up either... So I will wear it when I don't have an extreme Death-Metal T-shirt on my back  Last edited on Wed Mar 30th, 2011 02:46 pm by Hammerfjord |
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Paxman 3T WIS 
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Simply beautiful!drool.gif |
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mario 3T WIS 
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usually not a fan of skeletons but this one is really really nice...probably one of the nicest dress watches i've seen in a while. Congrats... |
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Hammerfjord Moderator
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Thanks Mark! I love i too: Really what I was looking for and even better. Yes Mario, it's a great dress watch.  I will surely reserve it for the best occasions |
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Devin 3T WIS 
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Very Nice! I really like the dial and the strap looks top notch! |
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Tony Duronio 3T WIS 
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Beautiful timepiece Will congrats and enjoy |
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wardog 3T WIS
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Very nice! Congrats and enjoy. |
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oagaspar Site Founder 
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sweet watch,sweet pics,Congrats Will!...I'm a huge fan of the skeleton dial.. |
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SIRoadrunner 3T WIS 
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Ooh, yum. That's one rich looking watch ... sigh. I haven't seen a Revue Thommen for many moons; the posse days of ValueVision. |
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Hammerfjord Moderator
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Thanks everybody! Yes Oscar, it was time to hit a skeleton dial: Been drooling on many of those the last years without making any jump on one...That was about time! |
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ivster 3T WIS 
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That’s a nice sedated skeleton dial; some just have way too much going on. This one is perfect. |
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bigrustypig 3T WIS 
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Very nice, William and I like it a lot. You're right...at 38 x 38 it should look small but not at all. Maybe the diagonal is an illusion...maybe the raised secondary bezel. It looks thicker than the dimensions you elaborated. It's ok. Decoration is fine, too. A trademark of RT. You also made a good review. Direct to the point. Enjoy it in good health for a long time, amigo |
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Hammerfjord Moderator
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Thanks guys! I appriciate your comments Jeff. This was a fast review but it works fine |
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joecb 3T WIS 
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looks great. I like the small skeleton dial look, where you still have a dial with markers, love the half moon case back.. Makes a nice dress watch when you have to wear your tux on the oil rig.... |
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Hammerfjord Moderator
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joecb wrote:looks great. I like the small skeleton dial look, where you still have a dial with markers, love the half moon case back.. Makes a nice dress watch when you have to wear your tux on the oil rig.... Thanks! But when I'm on the rig, I'm dressed like a guy on death-row with orange pyjamas |
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