Raketa Owner Review : Stellar, poetic and atypical

The case of the world timer that I listed previously was also used for another rather unusual watch. This time on a 12-hour movement and the internal bezel serving as a compass by rotating the directions. To use it, you have to remove the watch, hold it horizontally, point the hour hand towards the direction of the sun, or at least its horizontal projection, and turn the red arrow on the internal bezel to half the distance between the small hand and 12 o'clock, all thanks to the crown placed at 4 o'clock, because the south is on the bisector between the angle of the sun and noon. So of course you must not be on legal time, because otherwise it doesn't work. Legal time is a totally artificial concept that the sun has never managed to get used to. Since June 22, 1940 in France, we say that German time is our legal time. But the sun doesn't care, for it we stayed on the Greenwich meridian. Likewise in summer we legally shift one hour more, but the sun, not to mention the equation of time, or the imprecision of the bisector... Which shows that it's better to have a GPS or a compass. Nevertheless, the compass rose and the internal bezel have a crazy charm. The movement is a 2609 NP with manual winding. The readability is not extraordinary with thin black hands on a dial printed with a red and black compass rose. But the idea of the watch is to have sun and to be more or less on solar time and in these conditions the readability is excellent, and if the sun is not there, it is the sun that we regret rather than the design of the watch. We miss a ray of sunshine and the world is so gray, only this watch bears witness to sunny days and it is this unquantifiable poetry that delights us.