Hands on with the Furlan Marri “Havana Salmon”
Sooner or later, unless you made out like a bandit with GME, we all come to the same conclusion: owning a Patek Philippe 1463 is probably out of the question. It?s too bad. The 1463 is perhaps the most objectively beautiful chronograph ever produced. It perfectly straddles the line between sporty and refined. Check that: it invented the line between sporty and refined. While to a modern watch lover the 1463 likely reads as downright dressy, particularly in its most common yellow gold case material, the reason this watch is special and historically significant is that it was Patek?s first waterproof chronograph, which in the 1940s was a true gamechanger. The perfectly balanced scientific dials featured telemeter, tachymeter, and pulsation scales in varying combinations through its years of production, lending the watch a practical usability if you, for example, work as a physician, or found yourself in a situation where it became suddenly necessary to outrun incoming cannon fire. See" Sporty. Anyway, the 1463 is a six figure watch these days, so tough to acquire or justify for all but the 1%. Luckily, if you feel a deep connection to the aesthetic (just the aesthetic) and have a little over $300 left in your Robinhood account after the peak of stonks hysteria, a new Geneva based brand called Furlan Marri has a watch you might be interested in. Their debut timepiece takes the 1463 as a starting point and spins five separate dial variations out of it, each one looking ...
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