I was looking today in the April issue of Watch Time magazine at the bookstore... There is a feature article on this fine watch! You might wanna go and pick it up!
Such loveliness in a small package makes me go crazy! Utter beauty!
U gotta love the El Primero, the first automatic non-modular 3 register column wheel chronograph movement.
Wow, I am shocked! I, too, was under the impression that the kind of ceramic used for watches was tough. My only 'hands-on' example is the ceramic cooking knife that I own: I've dropped it many times, it is tough as nails.
Yeah, the problem with digitial is that some sensors and some in-camera software are quite noisy if you take long exposures in the dark.
Each camera is different. I know that shooting in RAW and using some sort of noise reduction in post-processing really can help.
Interesting ideas.
What a nice watch. It seems that Ceramic is the new Carbon Fiber/Noryl/Resin/Tegimet/PVD/Anondized/Titanium material ---> Ceramic = En Vogue.
While it is true that 1520 was not chronometer-rated, it has found itself occasionally in COSC-dialed watches due to Dr. Frankenstein, not Rolex.
Once again, anything is possible but nothing is 100% true
Here's a small pic of my good ol' 1565 movement from a circa '63 pointed guard 1675.
Notice that it is marked 1560, not 1565.
Here's the watch with the "1560" 1565 movement:
Here's my '67 1675 with small GMT hand that it's technically 'not' supposed to have: