A few months ago, we asked our Man In Paris, David Chokron, who previously brought you the Minute Repeater Sound Off, to do something a little interesting, a little provocative. We asked him to take a week on the wrist with seven watches — most, if not all, of them with high claims of performance — and rank them according to how well they kept time at the end of a week’s worth of daily activity.
And so he went out and got for us the following — a Jaeger-LeCoultre tourbillon, a Franck Muller tourbillon, an H. Moser with Straumann double hairspring, an Omega with co-axial escapement, a Roger Dubuis double tourbillon, a Zenith Espada with El Primero movement, and finally, a 35-year-old Rolex.
In Part 1 of the video, shown below, David takes us through the watches and his methodology. Let us know what you think is going to be the final result!
UPDATE: View Part II here!
* This video in no way seeks to be a guide to chronometric performance in market-available timepieces, timekeeping accuracy being a quite separate issue from what governs timepiece chronometry (ie, isochronism in the regulating organ).
3 comments
I think it will be the Rolex that will win !
after watching this very educative video, my vote goes to your personal Rolex oyster date, 35+ yea5rs and keeping almost COSC performance, I also have a 1018 Date with a 1570 movement from 1968, and is on COSC parameters (+5 seconds per day),…I would really want to see the top dogs featured in the video running with today’s specs in 35 or more years….even if they can keep up with that performance, a Rolex can do it in a fraction of their cost, not to say with far much more reliability…..I have read articles that Mr Muller himself has been quoted bluntly saying that Rolex is the BEST watch looked from a practical point of view…