Borrowed Time: Hands-On with the Reservoir Airfight Jet
One of the keys to success for any budding watch brand is its hook. That hook has to be something that makes you look up from whatever is currently occupying your prized wrist real estate and say, ?Ooh, I like that.? That initial hook varies from person to person and can depend on a watch?s size, its material, the dial layout, the presence or absence of a complication, whether or not the watch has a date window, or any other innumerable detail that no one in their right mind should care about. But, as anyone who has plunged into the depths of horological esotericism will tell you, these details are pretty much the only thing that matters when it comes to building a serious watch collection.
The Airfight Jet leans on aeronautical themes and is meant to resemble on-board flight instruments. The hook is that initial moment of attraction that sparks the gestation period of whether or not you actually want to purchase a watch rather than just flirt with the idea. And for a young brand to be successful, it?s something that must be taken into account. It?s also something that Reservoir Watches, a new Swiss brand that comes by way of Paris, has in spades.
The hook for Reservoir is quite straightforward and is focused on a dueling complication for the time display. Hours are indicated via a digital aperture in the lower hemisphere of the dial that physically ?jumps? when the minute hand strikes 60. The minutes are read courtesy of a retrograde display that stretches around the perip...
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