I have owned several beautiful "open heart" timepieces and have affection for them. While not wanting to offend anyone who already owns this B Swiss Bucherer Prestige Chrono Automatic, I must say that gouging the right side of the dial does not make for an attractive look. Nor does it open up for viewing the most important feature of any open heart, the "heartbeat". In my opinion, there is nothing drawing me in to purchasing this piece. I truly wish I had something more positive to say. Here is an example, in my opinion, of my open heart Zenith done right...
Thank you, DCE2245...I have had the pleasure of owning 3 different Zenith timepieces, all of wich brought me a great deal of pleasure. The El Primero automatic movement is a beautiful piece of horological history.
I've never heard of this brand, but it's a great movement for the price. Dubois Depraz makes chronograph modules for lots of well known brands (such as Breitling) and they are regarded as being very high quality. The base SW200 movement should be reliable also.
One big problem is the size. 37.5 mm is almost a woman's size. Men's watches are rarely under 39mm these days. 43mm is probably the average.
kbenson38mm is perfect for me! I rarely wear anything larger than 42mm and most of my vintage collection men's watches are btw 35 and 40mm.
I'm not on this drop since I try to avoid Dubois-Depraz modules on top of ETA movements (Sellita in this case) - these are notoriously hard to service, you will hardly find any independent watch repairman agreeing to service stacked modules.
kbensonI have a 7,5 inch wrist and would never imagine wearing anything larger than 40mm. I see those men-boys around NYC wearing Flavar-Flave style, bedside alarm size clocks on their wrist thinking their look dapper and sophisticated while looking like complete dopes from NJ
I hate these “retail prices” being enormously “discounted”. It’s like I’m being scammed. Yes I know it’s a decent watch for the “sale” price. But I can’t go along with crap like this.
Not the worst looking watch I've ever seen, but I'm awfully curious to learn how a thirty-four hundred dollar watch finds itself marked down to $529--oh how the mighty have fallen!
A few things to clarify: Bucherer is a high end jeweler, who’s been around for a LONG time and is very well known in Europe. You’ll probably start hearing more about them since they’ve recently purchased Tourneau. Bucherer makes Carl F. Bucherer watches, which as it’s already pointed out, is a pretty high end and respected watch company. BSwiss is their “lower tier“ watch company.
I myself have two cheaper Carl F. Bucherers and they’re lovely. BSwiss is difficult to find in the US so this certainly caught my attention (although I hate the name “B Swiss”).
Here’s one of my CFB:
For those worried about the size: I find that, especially on the steel band, it does not wear small or look delicate at all, in part because of the relatively thick case and lugs. It compares favorably in terms of wrist presence to other classically-proportioned watches around 40mm, like my Seiko Alpinist. It's actually a little surprising when I put it next to a larger watch (such as a diver) and realize that it is actually smaller--it really doesn't look that way on the wrist, and kind of makes my larger watches look cumbersome by comparison. For reference, my wrist is 8 1/4 inch.
BlaiddLike to keep it at 1500psi, strong enough that I can feel the sting. But not so strong that it removes the grout from my tiles.
A good tip is to not use more pressure than what you'd use on a car.
Will the manufacturer warranty card be filled out with the actual vendor who sells the watch, the purchase date, and the individual watch serial number all filled out?