While I am known as a flagrant non rule follower at least on here, in an effort to make @Warren Money and others "Happy" I am going to follow the 3 day new watch rule. Today's post will be more about the specs of the watch, as yesterday was about the emotion and the story in being able to add it to the collection. The RGM x Teddy Baldassarre Model 501. This is the second run of the collaboration; I was told by Teddy’s team that the first run was 25 pieces and this second run was 20 pieces, with some differences between the two that I’m working on getting documented in writing. Mine is from the 2026 batch and came with the full RGM/Teddy kit and certificate. The watch is built by RGM Watch Co. in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Roland G. Murphy’s independent American watch company. RGM is one of the few American makers still strongly associated with traditional watchmaking craft, especially engine-turned/guilloché dials, traditional case work, and historically inspired mechanical watch design. The Model 501-Teddy uses a 39mm stainless-steel case, roughly 48mm lug-to-lug, 20mm lug width, and 50 meters of water resistance, putting it very much in the refined dress-watch category. The dial is really the soul of the watch. It has a blue galvanic, hand-guilloché style dial with a traditional layout: central hours/minutes, small seconds at 6, Breguet-style numerals, and a stepped vintage-inspired case profile. It has that old-world American watchmaking feel without looking like a pure reproduction. It is dressy, but not sterile. The movement is the Schwarz Etienne ASE 200, which is a Swiss manufacture automatic micro-rotor caliber. So while this is not one of RGM’s in-house American movements, it is not a generic outsourced movement either. Schwarz Etienne is a legitimate Swiss manufacture, and the ASE 200 is a high-grade movement with a micro-rotor architecture, visible through the display back. The micro-rotor gives you automatic winding while leaving much more of the movement architecture visible than a full central rotor would.

A throwback to white dial Wednesday with another white dial GMT. Try as I may. I can't find fault with this watch, every aspect of it is so well done.

Jumping in the way back machine to 2006/7 with my Citizen today.