So later this year I turn 40 and it seems to be a bigger birthday to me than 30 or 18 or whatever. I'm looking for a watch that will acknowledge the event, but I'm having a hard time coming up with a shortlist.
As many of you know I have been on a 'different' watch drive for the last little while - looking for watches that are more unusual and bring something distinctly different from what I already have or from what I'm likely to see on a wrist. The problem with that is that it often pushes me into a niche and I'm not sure that's the right watch for a 40th birthday. For example, I can see me adding an Azimuth Mr. Roboto and a Pierre Kunz Insanity to my collection in the not too distant future, and I recently said that I like the Bell & Ross Red Radar, but not sure that I want to look in the watch box and see those and think back to my 40th birthday. In my mind at least I want to be able to wear my 40th birthday watch on my 50th, 60th, 70th, birthdays etc and not sure I see Roff at 70 with Mr. Roboto on the wrist
That said, I don't want my 40th birthday watch to be hugely mainstream either - that's not appealing to me right now. There are a lot of very nice popular watches today, but that very popularity turns me away from many of them, they just aren't 'different' enough for me. I've toyed with the idea of a Reverso, a little less popular these days and with the opportunity to personalise it which obviously moves it into unique territory and I've also been thinking about some of the niche brands - Antoine Preziuso (although budget limits options there), Martin Braun, etc, but any ideas from you guys??
I like the idea of rose gold, but not sure that I would go that route because of practicality, so probably we are talking:
* Non precious case
* In house movement preferred but not necessarily required
* A watch that I'm not likely to see on someone else's wrist too often
Size is no issue to me, complications are not an issue, although a 'different' 3 hander obviously becomes harder.
What ideas do you have?????
I can't 
, has a nice 10 second retrograde complication, 47mm diameter, a "brand exclusive" (i.e. kind-of-in-house) movement, it's different but not gimmicky so, and you sure as hell won't see one on many people's wrists as there's only 60 of them worldwide. 
