Raketa Owner Review : Complex, delirious and fun

The case with double crown and rotating internal bezel, used in the World timer and the Rose des sables is also present in this "Collège" which allows to display the days of the month for the current year. It is quite clever, and it recalls the same device that is on the Japanese Orient watches. It is called Collège because it was popular among students (In post-Soviet Russia the word refers to technical higher education, but the name may come from the Anglo-Saxon world where the College is a general higher education, I do not know when this name dates from). But it is also called Millennium or simply Orient, because it is a watch homage to the Orients made for the European market a decade or two earlier. The mechanism is a 2628N with the day and date. The system, of course, is outdated because it is easier to take out your smartphone if you want the calendar of the month, you can also write down your appointments or reminders. On the other hand, it allows us to understand how stupid and unnatural the current calendar with 12 months is. It would be enough to have 13 months of 28 days in the year to not need a calendar in front of us when planning, the days of the week would always fall on the same date. It would simply be enough to have an intercalary day (or two in leap years) to fall back on the year of 365 or 366 days. Months that do not have the same number of days and that are not multiples of 7, you really have to try to complicate your life to choose that. And yet that's what everyone uses. It's probably to better follow the moon which is not 28 days but 29.5, or quite simply that since the Babylonians or the Sumerians we have been used to counting in base twelve. Even the revolutionaries of 1789 wanted to keep 12 months in the Republican calendar, when 13 would be more practical. Aside from these reflections that this necessarily inspires, the hands are very thin, the dial is loaded, the crown of the internal bezel to select the days and the year is slightly shorter than the main crown (although not on the first models). We are really dealing with an intellectual's watch, a hair-splitter, which is why it is well named a student's watch, College. Adjectives: intellectual, complicated, complex, clever, homage, commercial, calendar,