Everyone has their own pets in watch collecting, but for me, the 605 HU represents a kind of climax in the history of complicated watchmaking
link of the old school, as practiced
link in the Swiss-French idiom in the mid-20th century. It is a watch that exemplifies the apex of
link haute horlogerie and is as much a landmark, in its own way, as the Rolex Submariner (which was introduced in roughly the same period that the 605 HU cloisonne watches were being made).