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The Difference Between Minimalist Watches And Ones That Are Just Plain Simple
The design term "minimalism"is thrown around an awful lot in today's market for wristwatches. Actually, "minimalism"is used in all sorts of consumer contexts these days. In my opinion, a lot of companies who make watches (among other things) are abusing the term-and doing a disservice to objects that do indeed represent effective minimalism.Several times a week best watches gets messages from new brands that heavily emphasize the term "minimalism"to describe their new products. At a glance I see a product that looks incredibly familiar. Not only that, but a look that I dismissed long ago as being almost entirely uninteresting. Was I someone who just didn't like minimalism? For a while I was starting to believe so. How could I simply write off an entire genre of design like that?
Roger Dubuis Excalibur Automatic Skeleton Watch To Debut At SIHH 2015
What you see here is a look that for a while now has been?synonymous with Roger Dubuis: a large, round case with triple-lug design, a?notched bezel and –?the?party-piece – an excessively skeletonized movement that?makes?any and all dials completely redundant. Gears, wheels, springs, cams, bridges, jewels, and other structural elements of the movement are exposed as much as possible, in a vast effort to create some serious eye-candy for the watch enthusiast-the kind not turned off by an?arguably more flashy design.?Making its debut at SIHH 2015 is a new piece that carries on this tradition, with a different approach: the?Roger Dubuis Excalibur Automatic Skeleton, the first watch of this kind?that does away with the tourbillon and offers this?avant-garde?aesthetic without the tourbillon’s hefty pricing premium.For years on end, the tourbillon has?in many ways been considered to be?one of the absolute pinnacles of fine watchmaking-despite the fact that many master watchm