The choice to stick with an ‘in-house’ upgraded ETA copy and soft iron antimagnetic inner core makes the Ingenieur a sort semi-historical reproduction or re-issue. A few of the best recent refinements have been maintained, with the modern bracelet and crown guards, while other parts feel bit closer to the Genta version. No doubt they would be encouraged by VC’s very faithful 222 reissue and perhaps even GS’s heritage collection reissues. But it’s not quite a living modern watch in terms of the movement, when Omega and now Tudor and others are making genuinely anti-magnetic METAS certified watches for less. It becomes a (rather expensive) souvenir of how anti-magnetism used to be achieved in the old days.
FWIW I quite like it if money was no object, though the crown guards might push the dimensions slightly beyond my comfort zone. They did with the slim but slab-like previous version where they seemed to blend into the case from some angles. They may have fixed that on this one though, they’re certainly redesigned and we’re assured it wears well for its size.
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