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100% agreed!
Dec 14, 2014,22:37 PM
Greg,
There's something about those Reversos from about a decade ago - they have a romance, a spirit, which is absolutely fantastic.
If I'm honest, the 70eme isn't one for me. There's something about the dial composition which doesn't quite capture me; it seems thick; and the movement design seems very bold and masculine...perhaps overly so for a watch which I have always thought of as one for the refined gentleman?
On the other hand, the 60eme has something a little bit different, as you point out, which makes it very special. And while I am emphatically NOT a coloured-metals chap - the rose gold on these pieces sets off the guilloched dials, and lends an air which is very attractive. I could go so far as saying that a rose gold Reverso is one of the only pieces in a coloured metal which has caught my eye.
But while the 60eme is lovely, it's the Geographique that *really* makes my heart beat faster. What a beauty!!! I adore the circular seconds hand subdial and its beautiful dial engraving - and the other side ain't too shabby either. ;-) I love world time watches, the idea of travel and being transported mentally to places around the world with just a glance at the wrist - but have conceptual issues with them: the world-time part always seems to take up too much space on the dial (as you say - they announce where they are from across the room!), plus how do you deal with Indian time zones, or when a city changes time zones - as happens from time to time? And summer time indications always seem clunky. With the Geo, though, this all just melts away.
Enjoy!
(There were only two other Reversos which used to get me dreaming. One was the sun/moon, again because of the slightly wonky asymmetry of the dial which made it interesting, although the engine-turning didn't seem as good. The other was the Art Deco model - now, because of its salmon dial, this was great in white gold; again, it's the contrast between the dial and the metal which worked. I didn't like the little cartouche on the dial that said 'Reverso' - why do you need that? But nonetheless I have a thing for salmon-coloured dials - and guilloche work - and white metals - and with *that* engraved/skeletonised movement, maybe I need to look into one of those!)
(Sorry, Francophones; I can't seem to get diacritical marks/accents on my keyboard at work...)