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| The watch at auction ended up selling for over £658,000 but Roger knew that he could design a face and a complex automatic movement in a timepiece that would capture the beautiful design and grand date functions for a much more reasonable price. Not many collectors were trained to build watches at the best Swiss factories or have access to our Swiss built machinery but the 8 wheeled precision movement with a 100-year calendar proved difficult to master.
This being no easy feat, it took Roger and his genius of a brother, Matthew 30 months to create the grand date design and the 27 jeweled complex automatic movement for the Atlas. With a vintage automatic self winding movement, the watch runs without batteries-it just needs the normal movement of your body. The magnificent blue feuille hands measure day, date, year and even display a sun/moon AM/PM indicator.
The true sign of a collector's watch is the smooth sweep second hand. The sweep sets this limited edition "Atlas" apart the mass produced watches. The golden satin face has raised gold plated numbers and markers, a tachymeter and the exhibition back gives you a view of the 27 jeweled movement. |
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