Jeroen wrote:

changchung wrote:I am not realy sure about which one choise, leather strap or metal strap... Can some one help me to make a rigth choice???

Take the watch you like the most and take a extra strap metal ore leather to change it when you like

jeroen

Eric wrote:steel stap looks "sport"
leather stap is more "every-day"

i prefer leather

haes wrote:quite apart from the hygiene point of vue
i am inclined to say
a leather bracelet gives more "class" to the
retrograde.
i am supported in this believe since the
red-golden retrograde from ss 2008 will be
provided with a black leather bracelet !
i think i prefer leather over steel

akitaishi wrote:

haes wrote:quite apart from the hygiene point of vue
i am inclined to say
a leather bracelet gives more "class" to the
retrograde.
i am supported in this believe since the
red-golden retrograde from ss 2008 will be
provided with a black leather bracelet !
i think i prefer leather over steel

yes. I am not saying leather is any less classy than steel. But the tendency for leather straps to absorb sweat makes it less lasting than the steel strap. I have a diaphane chrono with a leather strap and that is why I want to raise it up. The smell cannot be remove easily even with washing and drying it in the sun.

That is why Tresor Magique and other collectors Irony comes with a replacement strap. If the piece you are buying is intended for some light wear, be sure to buy one or two more sets of leather strap for replacement.

akitaishi

Jeroen wrote:And fore the real freak this is the movement

Mouvement ETA G15.261



Retrograde hours and other retrograde indications
“Retrograde” hands sweep a segment of a circle before springing back to their initial position to begin their movement again. Their endless choreography is an inspiration for innovative and highly spectacular dials.
While most watches display time by means of hands rotating on an axis, some watchmakers have given free rein to their creativity by developing alternative displays. In the late seventeenth century, some pocket watches’ hour hand would sweep a segment of a circle for half the day then return to its starting point to begin all over again. Abraham-Louis Breguet used this type of "retrograde" mechanism in the late eighteenth century for functions such as the date or the equation of time. After falling somewhat out of favour, retrograde displays returned to the spotlight on late twentieth-century wristwatches. Today they are very much in vogue and take all manner of forms. Technically speaking, there is nothing revolutionary about this system as the movement’s overall construction remains the same. The difference comes at the very end with the complex mechanism of rack, pawls and springs, conceived and made with the utmost precision, that drives the hands. Retrograde hands lend themselves to all types of indication, for example the hour, minute and date, and this versatility has inspired a wave of "bi-retrograde" and "tri-retrograde" watches. The retrograde system is especially impressive with fast-moving indications such as the seconds. Very often, retrograde hands are combined with jumping indications.


Jeroen