PAM 526 - a better YachtMaster II?

[Cru Jones]

i get the feeling that the 526 has slipped through the cracks a bit during the initial (overly harsh) reaction to SIHH 2013.

a completely new and in-house flyback chrono regatta movement by OP is pretty interesting, IMO, and at $11,800, the price seems reasonable (especially in comparison to a YM-II). at least to me, the mechanism seems pretty straight-forward and i quite like the design/color scheme, too.

"How the Regatta Timer and Flyback Chrono work:

The orange push-button at four o’clock moves the central orange chronograph minute hand back one minute at a time, until it is at the correct position in relation to the length of the countdown. On starting the chronograph,by pushing the chronograph stop/start button at ten o’clock, the relative hands begin to move, indicating first the minutes and seconds remaining until the start, and then, when the countdown has finished, the time elapsed since the start of the race. The push-button at eight o’clock ends the time measurement, returning allthe chronograph hands to zero. Alternatively, if it is operated while the hands are still moving, it activates the return-to-zero (flyback) function, thus enabling a new time interval to be measured immediately without operating the stop and reset buttons."

(source: click here).





"The flange carries the scale of up to 15 minutes for the countdown to the start, with the five final minutes picked out in orange, and also the tachymeter scale expressed in knots, enabling the speed of the yacht to be measured over a defined distance."