• By caius red
• Published 12/19/2010

Lets facial skin it, most Hodinkee readers most likely havent paid much attention to Raymond Weil. Started in 1976 at the nadir of the Swiss Louis Vuitton 2010 Collection business, the company has already been largely referred to as a denizen of department store timepiece situations serving considered as numerous peoples entry point into “nicer” timepieces.

Yet what the majority of us don’t know is that Raymond Weil, the companys namesake founder, has a sound timepiece background, acquiring began his career with Camy Watch, along with served considered as the President of the Geneva Watch Producers Union. Numerous of Raymond Weils more recent offerings are creating horology lovers sit up along with take realize, for example the Nabucco as well as the Freelancer.

2010 marks the 20th wedding anniversary of Raymond Weils most well-liked model, the Parsifal. Named right after Wagners opera, the Parsifal has always been an beautiful costume timepiece. Yet in its twentieth year, the chronograph gets an exhibition caseback that displays a finely decorated top shelf movement. The ETA 2892 with Dubois Depraz chronograph module has Geneva stripes, circular graining along with an engraved rotor.

This fine movement drives a three-register chrono (little seconds, minutes, hours) with magnified date aperture on a Roman numeral-ed matte black dial. Chronograph minutes sweep around the subdial distinct from the familiar tick-over of Valjoux-driven chronos. Timekeeping in our test discount Omega jewellery was outstanding, well inside chronometer conditions.

Though firmly planted in costume timepiece territory, because of its rose gold bezel along with alligator band, the Parsifal chronograph still has a screw-down crown along with is water-tight to 100 meters. So in case you fall into the pool at the wedding reception, all that may be ruined is your tux. Raymond Weil may merely be worth a second look considered as you pass the timepiece counter during your holiday purchasing at the moment.

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