If you don't know that Roger Smith is making watches in the classic English style, you will not get why there is nary a Geneva stripe to be seen in his movements, and you will also not get what he's after, overall. I have read remarks to the effect that his movement finishing is poor – "no Geneva stripes, smh" –
link which is so obviously untrue that it boggles my noggin. Such a comment may be due to
link excusable ignorance, but it still makes me want to gouge
link my own eyeballs out with a grapefruit spoon.