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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nExactly 3 years ago, I posted my review of the Polka-Dot As blog followers may have noticed, I do not tend to acquire multiple Well, that’s the rationale, but to every rule there’s an exception, and Mechanically it is identical to that old dotted specimen. At its heart, On the outside, it uses the same gold-filled 36mm case, with the same So, what’s different? The zodiac wheel is a pretty reasonable decoration for a watch dial. If The zodiac also seems to lend itself to designers in a fairly unrestricted I mean, look at the following image \u2013 the version that appears in the None of this matters, of course, unless you take astrology seriously (I don’t,
\nRoyal Orient<\/a>, a beautiful rare timepiece, which was among Orient’s finest
\nproducts of the late 1950s. And now, somewhat surprisingly, comes along another
\nmember of that famed lineage \u2013 the Zodiac-Wheel Royal Orient.
\nversions of what is, essentially, the same watch. There are just so many
\ndifferent models to choose from, why get a duplicate?<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nthe whole idea of collecting old mechanical watches has little to do with logic
\nanyway, so \u2013 here goes! I saw this lovely thing in excellent shape, and bought
\nit.
\na 19 jewel N-Type manual wind movement runs smoothly and \u2013 as far as I can
\njudge \u2013 happily. It’s a simple time-only movement where very little can go
\nwrong, and indeed very little does.
\nlean, long lugs. The hands also appear to be identical to its sibling watch.<\/a><\/div>\n
\nyou’re searching for a set of 12 simple images to enhance a dial that already
\nspeaks in twelfths, look no further than the astrological signs. It might make
\nmore sense in a watch that actually includes a date and month complication, but
\nto be honest that might be too much to ask for. Very few watches actually
\npresent a date-accurate zodiac.
\nmanner: it seems you can start almost anywhere on the wheel (although I
\nunderstand “Aries” is the more common starting point), and go
\ndifferent directions \u2013 historically, northern hemisphere wheels would go
\ncounter-clockwise, but since people got used to watches, you would see many
\ndiagrams where the signs are arranged clockwise.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nbook is as legitimate as mine \u2013 apparently there were a few variations on the
\nzodiac theme. Neither starts with Aries at the top; in fact, the one in the
\nbook starts with Capricorn, which kind of makes sense as that coincides with
\nJanuary, and continues clockwise. The wheel on my dial looks like it has
\nCapricorn in the first position but mine actually goes counter-clockwise, and
\nstarts with Aquarius.
\nalthough for my grandma this was hard science). But it did force me to spend
\ntime on verifying the authenticity of the watch I purchased, making sure the
\ndial was not tampered with in any way. <\/a><\/div>\n