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Fantastic history at display, gemified.
May 09, 2024,20:55 PM
A long road and a lot of competence behind that collection, must have been a joyful journey, thank you for sharing
"Sapphire equivalents" intact, good gaskets, serviced and presstested, I'd argue your gems, at least from top 2 pics will be good for diving to this day, only concern being legibility and being irreplaceable if lost.
Having said that, I'd argue FF was always about developing and making the best divers back then (and I belive they did). I believe they still do, for instance by adding "lume-bloc" indices/numerals on Act I & II.
They have to relate to their market as everyone else, yet they introduce a 47mm when everyone is screaming for sub 40mm. That's dedication.
As for date, it's not an important feature to me, but if it's there on divers, 4:30 and colour matched is the right thing. The luxury and finishing and so on has its drawbacks too, but being able to properly caretaking tool qualities within that framework really makes FF stand out from everything else. Omega could pick up on a thing or two from that.