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Yup. We've all had our differences but the Footier is irreproachable.This watch will ****.
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Yup. We've all had our differences but the Footier is irreproachable.This watch will ****.
FooTank finalized.
- Tank Louis Cartier base
- Platinum case
- Ruby cabochon crown
- 5N rose gold dial with black printed Roman numerals and railroad minute track
- Breguet-style hands in black oxidized steel
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Only $33K. Yikes.
The key decisions that I kept going back and forth on were the dial and hands treatment. For the dial, you can achieve a salmon tone either by galvanizing a metal dial into Cartier’s designated “salmon” color or by making the dial out of solid rose gold. I don’t like Cartier’s official salmon color (it’s too yellow) and vintage salmon dials were simply made of rose gold. So, I went the puristic path and chose a rose gold dial.
For the hands, I waffled between blued steel and black oxidized steel. Ultimately, I decided the blue would look too anomalous since the cabochon cannot be sapphire on a platinum watch. Also, black hands puts more emphasis on the color of the dial, which is the real star of the show.
Photoshopping another Cartier watch with a rose gold dial gives some indication of how the colors will look:
View attachment 1773431
Fingers crossed.
Downloaded the Timegrapher app, which uses your phone’s microphone to listen to your watch’s beat rate and extrapolates a daily gain or loss estimate. My 5170 comes in at +0.9 seconds per day. Not bad! Glad I didn’t flush $90K down the toilet on a watch that can’t keep time.
Unfortunately the quartz clock in most computers is pretty poor at +/- a few seconds a day. The phone doesn't usually care since it syncs with atomic clock driven carrier time regularly, but it does matter over small intervals. You should run the test properly and compare with the phone result - not sure whether modern phones have improved over older computers where short term accuracy was less important.Downloaded the Timegrapher app, which uses your phone’s microphone to listen to your watch’s beat rate and extrapolates a daily gain or loss estimate. My 5170 comes in at +0.9 seconds per day. Not bad! Glad I didn’t flush $90K down the toilet on a watch that can’t keep time.
The NIST site will tell you how far off your PC clock is.Unfortunately the quartz clock in most computers is pretty poor at +/- a few seconds a day. The phone doesn't usually care since it syncs with atomic clock driven carrier time regularly, but it does matter over small intervals. You should run the test properly and compare with the phone result - not sure whether modern phones have improved over older computers where short term accuracy was less important.
Correct. Deployant would be wrong on a Tank LC anyway.
FooTank finalized.
- Tank Louis Cartier base
- Platinum case
- Ruby cabochon crown
- 5N rose gold dial with black printed Roman numerals and railroad minute track
- Breguet-style hands in black oxidized steel
View attachment 1773420
Only $33K. Yikes.
The key decisions that I kept going back and forth on were the dial and hands treatment. For the dial, you can achieve a salmon tone either by galvanizing a metal dial into Cartier’s designated “salmon” color or by making the dial out of solid rose gold. I don’t like Cartier’s official salmon color (it’s too yellow) and vintage salmon dials were simply made of rose gold. So, I went the puristic path and chose a rose gold dial.
For the hands, I waffled between blued steel and black oxidized steel. Ultimately, I decided the blue would look too anomalous since the cabochon cannot be sapphire on a platinum watch. Also, black hands puts more emphasis on the color of the dial, which is the real star of the show.
Photoshopping another Cartier watch with a rose gold dial gives some indication of how the colors will look:
View attachment 1773431
Fingers crossed.
The NIST site will tell you how far off your PC clock is.
The Official U.S. Time | NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology - Time and Frequency Division maintains the standard for frequency and time interval for the United States, provides official time to the United States, and carries out a broad program of research and service activities in time and frequency...timegov.boulder.nist.gov
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Did you have to buy five inferior PCs to qualify to purchase your current one from the dealer?My PC clock is intrinsically superior to your PC clock. Better hand finishing I suspect.
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