HANDS-ON: The Roger Dubuis Excalibur Spider Double Flying Tourbillon

The story in a second: Everyone's doing skeleton watches these days. Few are doing them as well as Roger Dubuis. Skeletonised watches have been enjoying a serious renaissance and reboot over the last few years. Gone are the delicate and fiddly finishes that were traditionally used, replaced with a modern approach that's more architecture than artisanal. And while Cartier and Hublot are the best-known advocates of this new school, the undisputed masters of the modern skeleton are Roger Dubuis. For…

HANDS ON: The Roger Dubuis Excalibur Automatic Skeleton

One of the watches we were most looking forward to seeing at SIHH was the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Automatic Skeleton – the Geneva brands brand new entry level watch in their iconic Excalibur collection. And in the metal it certainly didn't dissapoint. Deceptively light for such a large gold watch (turns out cutting out most of the movement reduces weight a bit – who knew), and a really comfortable wear on the wrist. We shot the pink gold model with…