Black polish and a seconds hand that jumps
By Marco Bellini, Zurich ·
Look at the bridges first. Always.
Rexhep Rexhepi's RR-02 is laid out the old chronometer way, with a large balance and long curved bridges whose edges are bevelled by hand and then polished until the flat surfaces go black at the right angle. That kind of black polish takes time you cannot fake with a machine. Then there is the dead-beat seconds: extra wheels and a stop mechanism that let the seconds hand jump once per second instead of sweeping. On a dress watch it is a real complication, built from real parts, and here you can watch it work through the caseback.
100 hours of reserve in a 38 mm by 9.7 mm platinum case. Wind it Thursday and it's still going on Monday morning. 30 m, which is fine for something no sensible person will swim in.
My reservation is not the watch. It's getting one. The list price is 90,000 to 110,000 USD, but the waiting list is the waiting list, and what people pay on the secondary market is a different number altogether. Buy this only if you will wear it. If the plan is to sell it on in a year, you are part of the problem.
Bellissimo. I don't say that often.