I think even the ss one costs about 1700,-€

 

Ouch.

 

Around £2k if you have to source one.

 

Double ouch.

 

I am coming round to your way of thinking on this. The rose variants do look right. As do the steel ones. I am increasingly thinking that the yellow ones are less appealing.

 

White Gold? Platinum?

 

Call me a peasant, but I struggle with white metal that isn't stainless. In the case of white gold it just makes a watch heavier and less robust as far as I can tell.

I am trying to research the different sizes and formats currently. The variations appear huge in number.

I like the look of the Tribute, but they seem quite large.

 

That doesn't look stupidly huge. What is your wrist diameter?

By contrast, I don't like the look of this fit:

 

Not my wrist. I was merely using it to indicate how I don't like a watch to fit.

I am a fan of smaller watches and wear a 37mm Master Control as my daily.

 

Here's mine -- my favorite variation. Great watch in the Tribute to 1931 case; the dial has a nice silvery finish.

 

With the reverso and its flat case, you want to pay attention to the length top to bottom lug. It just sits flat.

 

Agreed on suggestions to try them on. I purchased my first Reverso sight-unseen, and realized within a week I selected the wrong size for me. I was a costly mistake, before I found the right size fit and ended up with the Reverso Duo.

Unfortunately, mine kept getting magnetized, when I wore it on weekly work trips. But thoroughly enjoyed the aesthetics of it while it was in my possession. And also its ease-of-use, as I had the generation where you can advance the hour by a big pusher on the side of the case.

 

My Master Control is the most easily magnetised watch I have ever owned. I can demag it, and half a day later it is magnetised again. My keyboard is mildly magnetic, that is probably some of the cause. But my phone, my laptop etc etc....

I was speaking to a salesman at a JLC AD a few weeks ago. Without mentioning magnetism, he volunteered that when he owned a Reverso it was always magentised. He seemed to believe that makers like JLC and Patek are quite set in their ways with regard to watchmaking and don't address the issue of magnetism as much as some other manufacturers.

This isn't mainspring magnetism, causing minutes of gain per day. It's small component magnetism (hairspring particularly I think) that causes the watch to just not run optimally.

All my watches become magnetised eventually, it affects some more than others. I had a Submariner that ran better that way, because it went from losing per day to gaining.

 

You can get a new one for that price. They are smoking something.

 

I don't think you can.

 

Regarding size, I think many men underestimate their own wrist size and think that a large watch does not look good. Wear what you're comfortable wearing, by all means, but nobody is going to stare, point, or whisper behind your back unless it's something really ridiculous. Nothing in this thread approaches ridiculous. If anything, I say there are some that are a tad too small.