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I wasn’t thinking about the recent water resistance changes, but Patek only rates its minute repeaters as being humidity and dust protected (not water-resistant). So having a Patek minute repeater rated for 30m would be pretty notable.

In my fantasy world, why not add a peripheral winding system to the R TO 27 movement and adapt the fortissimo system from the advanced research 5750P for better sound projection. While the 5750P was not water-resistant, I am imagining that with the enhanced sound propagation it may be what is needed

Although I find the tourbillon to still be somewhat hidden on the 5303. The skeletonization really focuses on the minute repeater complication, even bringing the hammers and gongs to the dial side.

Was visiting Wako earlier today and I had a chance to get hands-on with this:

Yea, that is correct. I'm certain prices vary for each piece depending on its details, but I rarely see definitive pricing information on Rare Handcraft pocket watches listed so it was interesting to note. Honestly, I would have guessed a higher price and I am always surprised that items from the RH

From photos, and seeing it from a distance at the exhibition, I had found it a bit difficult to distinguish the details of the tree and the leaves. With a closer look, the light does give more three dimensionality to the image and the details really come into view. My close-up photo does a better jo

I stopped by my AD this weekend and saw a very surprising item in the display case! A very lucky collector (not me!) managed to get the allocation for the 995/135G "Eagle" - King of the sky pocket watch from the Tokyo Grand Exhibition in 2023. It was fun to get to see it one more time before it inev

As part of Seiko's Incredby Specialized Watch Exhibition they created a watch for cooking sukiyaki. The idea for the watch was that it had a recipe programmed into it and would instruct you which ingredient to add next and when it was time to do so. It was based on the movement in the metronome watc

I think a lot of the discussion has been based on misunderstandings of what has changed. Reading the press release, the change is now there is a clear definition of what 30m water resistance means (e.g. you can swim at a depth of 30m) and they are testing all watches that they claim are water resist

When changing your local time zone, the date moves back one day when crossing this indicator. (Unless you are in the one hour of the day where the date is the same in all timezones, if that is the case then the date remains the same.)