Haute Horlogerie Picture Thread
Jan 4, 2012 | 08:17 AM
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Also while I was reading this week, I found a cool new patek. This 5235 is the first ever regulator watch by patek, and it has annual calendar. All I know - it's stunning. Additionally, it has some of the new composite materials patek has been playing with recently.
Here is some information from monochrome about regulators:
The Patek Philippe Ref. 5235 Annual Calendar Regulator features a dial with an unusual arrangement – large sweep minute hand combined with subsidiary hours at 12 o’clock and subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock. Free-standing precision pendulum clocks with regulator arrangement kept the precise time in watchmaking workshops and observatories, for more than 200 years, until they were finally superseded by quartz- and radio-controlled reference instruments. When adjusting their timepieces, watchmakers needed an unobstructed view of the seconds hand, which is why the hour display was moved to an off-center location where it would not sweep over and thus partially cover the seconds dial for several hours in the course of a day.
Here is some information from monochrome about regulators:
The Patek Philippe Ref. 5235 Annual Calendar Regulator features a dial with an unusual arrangement – large sweep minute hand combined with subsidiary hours at 12 o’clock and subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock. Free-standing precision pendulum clocks with regulator arrangement kept the precise time in watchmaking workshops and observatories, for more than 200 years, until they were finally superseded by quartz- and radio-controlled reference instruments. When adjusting their timepieces, watchmakers needed an unobstructed view of the seconds hand, which is why the hour display was moved to an off-center location where it would not sweep over and thus partially cover the seconds dial for several hours in the course of a day.
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Jan 4, 2012 | 04:06 PM
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if you are looking for different
I'll give it a shot.
Jacob 31 day tourbillon
for pure size comparison
Bovet tourbillon
HW Opus V
harry with Richard
Hautlence
JLC AMVOX 3
JLC master control tourbillon LE PT
Lange tourbograph
Patek 5101P
Well thats enough for now. I'll post more when i have more time
Jacob 31 day tourbillon
for pure size comparison
Bovet tourbillon
HW Opus V
harry with Richard
Hautlence
JLC AMVOX 3
JLC master control tourbillon LE PT
Lange tourbograph
Patek 5101P
Well thats enough for now. I'll post more when i have more time
Jan 5, 2012 | 06:51 PM
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Oh my... Check out this brand new Glashütte Senator Observer, limited to only 25 pieces 
Damnit I hate it when a perfect watch comes along and then it turns out it's impossible to ever obtain...
Damnit I hate it when a perfect watch comes along and then it turns out it's impossible to ever obtain... Last edited by Ludas; Jan 5, 2012 at 06:53 PM.
Jan 6, 2012 | 01:17 AM
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If I am not mistaken I saw this watch at Tourbillion in Crytals (city center) along with several other Glashutte watches that I have never seen in their books. Certainly a stunner.
