Guilloché and an integrated bracelet
By Sam Okafor, London ·
Integrated-bracelet sports watches are everywhere now, and nearly all of them are variations on the same Gérald Genta brief. The Perception is still a variation, but it has one thing most don't: a guilloché dial, in green, with a pattern that catches light in waves as you turn your wrist. It's a craft technique that usually lives on dress watches, and putting it on a sporty steel case is a nice piece of cross-pollination.
40 mm and 10.4 mm thick, 22 mm bracelet, 100 m, sapphire, an open back, a Pequignet movement with a 65-hour reserve. The case lines are crisp and the bracelet flows from the case well.
What holds me back is that the integrated shape is so familiar now that the eye reads it as a genre rather than a design. And at 4,800 to 4,900 dollars it's competing with Tudor and Oris, whose name recognition is higher. I'd buy it for the dial, which has more character than its competitors at twice the price.