The official watch of the Musée International d‘Horlogerie (MIH) is crafted with the kind of meticulous attention to detail that makes me weep with joy…
“The dial is kept matt black to optimise the readability of the superluminova-coated hands and indices, whose interrelationships are clear and unambiguous. The minute hand forms an unbroken line with the longer 6, 9 and 12 o’clock indices. The difference in length between the minute and hour hands is equivalent to the length of these three longer indices.”
“The red marking at the end of the virtually invisible sweep second hand highlights its position where it is needed most: in close proximity to the seconds/minutes markings. The length of the red marking is twice that of the longer hour indices. The MIH initials at 9 o’clock – they are placed there to symbolise the nine components of the calendar mechanism – form an index that is precisely the same size as the longer hour indices at 6 and 12 o’clock.”
“The width of the strap lugs corresponds to that of the bezel, and the curvature of the sapphire crystal merges seamlessly with it, too. In fact, every curve is referenced to the centre of the watch, including even the radii of the end of the strap, the clasp and the curvatures of the pusher and crown. The watch is large, succinct and the twelve serrations in the crown allude to the twelve subdivisions of the dial.”
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