The Movement

OK, first of all it's a Valjoux 7750 movement, but with a somewhat unstandard arrangement of the subdials at nine,six and three o'clock and the date window between the four and five o'clock position. And then, to make it more interesting the guys at Sinn added a flyback also. Sinns flyback mechanism is called SRS and they have patent pending on that. To transform the standard 7750 into a pleasant beauty, Sinn did some refinement on some parts of the movement and on the rotor, which is additionally engraved by hand.

One can find 'Côtes de Genèves' on the automatic winding bridge as well as solar finish and the skyline of Frankfurt on the rotor and circular-grain finish on some other movement parts. And of course there are blued screws all over the place. On the picture on the right you can also see a kind of gold circles around two of the jewels. I really don't know what they are, I think this means that IANWO (I am no Walt Odets). That leads me well to the point where I like to mention mr. Odets marvelous article about the Valjoux 7750 movement on www.timezone.com

The hand engraved rotor and some 'Côtes de Genèves'.

It is really difficult for me to judge the movements quality. On one hand, if i look through the domed saphire display back with my bare eyes, I very much like what i see. But on the other hand, if I take the loupe or even worse take some close-up snapshots of the movement with the nikon and compare them with the scans of some Patek or Lange movement i've seen on timezone, I think Sinn could have done better. And then on the third hand, considering what I payed for this watch and what I would have to pay for a Patek or Lange, a big smile finds it's place on my face.