My First Review-RW Millesime
Love at first sight,made an impulse buy with no remorse. I was saving up for my grail but this watch made me postpone that purchase. My first Raymond Weil watch. Beauty on the wrist in terms of size and dial. One of the best sector dials. It has a Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genéve challenge award. Case has a brushed finishing and plays well in the light. Small seconds hand also is brushed. Hands look great and have lume on them. My only real nitpick is the leather strap as its too soft. Movement is sellita based RW4251 and has 38 hours power reserve. Movement and lume could be better at this price range. Price is around 1.900 usd. Water resistence is moderate at 5 atm, 10atm would be perfect. You get 4 years of warranty when you register your watch. Sits great on my wrist with 39.5mm case size. Case thickness is 10.25 mm feels very light. Crystal looks non-existant with two layers of anti reflective coating. Case back is also sapphire glass. My first watch with double ar coating and its a stuning experience to be honest. Also my first watch with small seconds and it follows the sector design language. Indicies are printed but they look like applied. Has a great salmon dial option with no small seconds. Also thanks to Teddy Baldassare for dropping this watch on my radar. To sum it up it is a great addition in my one piece per brand collection and a joy to wear on the wrist. Probably my best watch in terms of dial and finishing. Would recommend this watch in dress and dressy daily categories.
My First Review-RW Millesime
Yes
No
- GPHG award
- Great dial design
- Small seconds
- Beautiful finishing
- Spot on size at 39.5
- Double AR coating
- Leather strap could be better
- Lume could be better
- Better movements are available at the price range
English teacher, watch enthusiast from Türkiye
I think it’s beautiful!
I'm really loving the small seconds hand look now and the not having a crown guard makes it seem vintage. It's a beautiful watch.
You picking this up brought it to my attention. I love the minute track, so many dashes! This version you have I could see on so many different straps, each changing the dynamics of the watch completely.
I'm keeping half an eye on the salmon dial at the moment.
You picking this up brought it to my attention. I love the minute track, so many dashes! This version you have I could see on so many different straps, each changing the dynamics of the watch completely.
I'm keeping half an eye on the salmon dial at the moment.
wish salmon had the small seconds then would be perfect, probably gonna get a strap in the future
wish salmon had the small seconds then would be perfect, probably gonna get a strap in the future
Yes agree about the small seconds, that was a bit of a disappointment
Congrats - a really good looking watch.
Enjoy.
A wonderful classic sector design with circles inside circles, separate second hand at 6 o'clock that is circled inside circles and visible lines from 12-6 and 3-9. Will be on my sector watch wish list.
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Great review, a watch I have never looked at, so thanks for bringing it to my attention 👌
I'm glad the brand is getting some love. I was equally guilty. But prior to their GPHG win, I already noticed that actually some of their watches are pretty attractive. For example, the bold classically styles maestro with the modern tapering Roman numerals is actually quite an accomplished look, if conservative at heart. Another example, the TV-dial freelancer with open heart. And yes, I am not generally Iin favour of the needless open heart, but this is one exception of a watch I do like with it. Then came the Millesime, and that was a delight, especially in the genre of sector dials where I often prefer small seconds. Yet, in the small seconds version, the sundial feels a little cramped and that's down to typographical choices. Really they should st least have left automatic off the dial. It's very good as it is, but I the genre I thin kthe layout of the Longines is still preferable to me. Perhaps also because it makes no excuse for completely being a vintage remake. And then, I saw the rose gold centre seconds, and it just clicked. One of those instances where you actually instantaneously desire a watch. How strange, I thought, as I tend to prefer the small seconds subdial, but as I saw fault with it, the centre seconds resolved that. It also underlines the more contemporary lenience of the dial interpretation and the warmth of the gold with additional thinness makes that case really come into its own. The unusual step of adding drilled lugs stands out more on the gold and the silver gains additional depth thanks to the rose gold handset. Unexpectedly, Raymond Weil now has a place at the top (or close to, as really I'd expect some nice discounts a bit further on) of my priority list. The only thing against it is that it's not solid gold, so wear it too much, and the gold could wear off, as happened with my only gold plated watch before. This, however, would seem to be the almost uncanny perfect replacement for it. I'll stop my serenade now.