And what do we have in front of us?
Let’s start with the bi-retrograde display of the day of the week and the date. The double retrograde is a co-patented solution first developed by Roger Dubuis with Jean Marc Wiederrecht. The two friends developed this system for Harry Winston in the late 1980s, and just as it would become a signature used on the first RD watch launched in 1995, the bi-retrograde is still today an important complication for Agenhor, the company founded by Mr. Wiederrecht and his wife Catherine the following year, in 1996. The friends would go on to show that bi-retrogrades can be very far apart in terms of the final design. Just compare the romantic, soft and narrative arches of the Pont des Amoureux made for Van Cleef & Arpels by Agenhor, with the industrial, bold, openwork arches with spectacular curves by Roger Dubuis.
The perpetual calendar was another favorite of Roger Dubuis. Here we have the months and leap year on two discs open at 12 o’clock. Both feature circular decor, one of hundreds of tiny details that can keep any watch enthusiast visually wandering through this watch for hours. Yes, there are more accurate QPs on the market. But I sincerely believe that we can live with the fact of having to make one correction per century.
