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But I also enjoy modern watches too, and have quite a few that I wear from day link to day.I do like the date-less dial of the new medium-sized Santos de Cartier.This year marks the 100th anniversary of this particular slanted dial design … sort of. The American 1921 is a celebration of a watch model from 1921, which itself was a revision – or improvement – of a similar watch design from 1919 (the year the… Continue

In this edition of Speedy link Tuesday, we look at an experimental Omega Speedmaster that is a thing of real beauty. NASA introduced my dream version in the early 1970s, but sadly, it was never a production model.Well, Jorg, let me explain, and I'll start by pointinThe lugs are open on the side and since they are pretty short, the large case fits easy on a smaller wrist like mine.The MoonSwatch takes an absolute… Continue

On the rotor you find the famous Fortis logo with the crown and their slogan: World’s first manufacturer link of automatic wristwatches. The whoI must say, I like the new Navitimer B19 quite a lot. The Navitimer was always designed to display tons of information, so its design doesn’t suffer from such advanced complications. From a distance, it looks like any other Breitling Navitimer.On the tail… Continue

To conclude these tests, the watch was attached to a thin cord and dropped to a depth of 120 meters – twice as deep as 60 meters, the maximum depth achievable with self-contained link compressed air equipment.But wow, is it cool! Thankfully, the good folks at Worn & Wound have given us a globular central hand and a mechanical powerplant.Besides exotic… Continue

This timepiece, available in four versions and equipped with the firm’s first-ever in-house chronograph caliber, epitomizes the brand’s new face for the next few years to come.HODINKEE has always tried as much as possible to show not just the technical, historical, or design aspects of watchmaking. We've always tried to connect watches to the larger world link and to the people and purposes they serve. To see more of… Continue

But it’s the time floating link around Jerome Colliard’s "Planisphere d’un monde equestre" (planisphere of an equestrian world)This hand-wound mechanical movement, the conductor of a virtuoso ensemble and fashioned with 265 components, benefits from the manufacture’s incomparable savoir-faire.This exceptional mechanism is characterized by its sapphire bridges along with its winding system equipped with ceramic ball… Continue

This time, the plan was to go in a more affordable direction, offer a larger production run of 100 pieces, and to style link the watch after Andreas’ favorite style of watches, the twin crown EPSA-cased Super Compressors.Kicking things up a notch on the complication scale is the 1858 Automatic Dual Time. It is born of the same ideas and inspiration as the 1858 Automatic and has the same two-tone steel and bronze… Continue

With an attractive appearance yet without compromising on practicality, this piece is water resistant up to a depth of 200 m and equipped with a unidirectional bezel and railroad index markers alternating between points and batons coated with easy-to-read Super-LumiNova®.Watchmaker: Nicolaus Rugendas the Younger (German, 1619–1694/5). This is the so-called link Great Ruby Watch, made by a German master… Continue

A Japanese version of Arsène Lupin in a soap opera manga, Lupin the Third, takes up the myth of the French gentleman burglar from 1967 link under the pen name Monkey Punch (1937-2019).It is a series of time-only watches with pencil hands, thin-bezel cases, and petite dial markers but with various dials that bring warmth and personality to each.It should be no surprise that Hublot, in contrast with the pastoral and idealized… Continue

The silvery white link dial version, reference LS901, has a blue moon disc, which gives a very big contrast.There are many different people out there with a wide variety of wrist sizes.We missed the new Explorer, all other novelties seemed to be there though.





The gems twirl in tune with the wrist’s movements, at link times languorously,… Continue