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Hands-On Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin
The epitome of technical complexity and restrained elegance, the?Vacheron Constantin?Patrimony Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin was first presented in 2011. Appearing with a blue dial (2019) and a slate grey dial (2017), the most classical interpretation is the present pink gold model with a silvery opaline dial. Retaining the essential styling of the Patrimony collection that references VC’s minimalist 1950s watch designs, the watch is equipped with the legendary ultra-thin automatic calibre 1120 QP. Let’s have a closer look at this supremely elegant model.Vacheron Constantin produced its first perpetual calendar in 1884 (inventory no. 10155), a double-sided gold pocket watch that automatically recognised months with 28, 29, 30 or 31 days. The main dial indicated the time, while the hinged caseback opened to reveal four elegant counters with phases and age of the moon, the day of the week, months and leap year indicator and the date. By 1905, Vacheron had upped the complexity
Five Stainless Steel Watches on Matching Bracelets Below 3k - Monochrome Watches
Whenever we compile lists for our weekly Buying Guide, we tend to look at common denominators between watches. One such element can be colour, material, a complication or even a price point. As suggested by one of our readers, we are now looking at sporty-chic watches on stainless steel bracelets priced under EUR 3,000. After doing some digging, we’ve come up with genuinely surprising watches! Let’s dive straight in.Nomos Club Sport Neomatik 39The Nomos Club has long been a success for the Glashutte-based brand for its humble simplicity. But that doesn’t mean it’s a boring one-trick pony, as Nomos has proven the basic design to be quite versatile. The Club Sport Neomatik, for instance, takes the concept in a new direction by adding new sizes, fresh colours and a steel bracelet. Last year, we saw the introduction of a trio of new colours in a new 39mm size. It’s fitted with the in-house produced automatic DUW 3001 Neomatik movement and retails for EUR 2,820
In-Depth: Diving With The New Aquastar Model 60
Aquastar made a name for itself in the early 1960s as one of the first purveyors of purpose-built dive watches. Starting as a company that made watches and other maritime instruments, it became one of the most well-known watch brands for serious SCUBA divers and underwater professionals. It found a certain type of fame on the wrists of everyone from Jacques Cousteau’s team of explorers to US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh, who wore an Aquastar while aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste for his pioneering journey to the bottom of Challenger Deep at a record-breaking depth of 10,911 metres (for the record, the Deep Sea Special was strapped outside, some Longines stopwatches were onboard, and Walsh was wearing an Aquastar). After a bit of a lull during the quartz crisis, Aquastar was revived in 2020 by none other than Rick Marei, the man famous for rejuvenating another esoteric dive watch brand, Doxa. Today, we take the brand’s latest creation underwater, the Aquastar Model 60, a tribu
Rado True Square Interpreted by Famous Designers - Monochrome Watches
When it comes to classical watches with complications, Rado is probably not your first port of call. However, if you are in the market for a trendy design-led watch, made of cutting-edge materials, Rado is an attractive option. Couple that with famous designer names, and you might well be looking at a contemporary piece of wristwear art. Renowned for its innovative use of high-tech ceramic and minimalist, contemporary design, Rado is no stranger to collaborations. Judging by the long and illustrious list of artists and designers the brand has attracted - Konstantin Grcic, Jasper Johnson, Leslie Chan, Ayako Suko, Bethan Grey, etc. – it might well be the brand with the most prolific input from external designers.? Since 2020, the emblematic True Square model has also received the ‘international designer treatment’. The latest model to join the True Square family is the Over the Abyss watch made in collaboration with New Delhi artist duo Jiten Thurkal and Sumir Tagra. In
Norqain Freedom 60 GMT & Freedom 60 39mm (With Price)
Even though the brand is still young, Norqain is a brand to follow. Created in 2018 in Nidau, Switzerland, the brand has unveiled many models to create a comprehensive and coherent collection of functional and adventure-inspired watches. And in terms of production and strategy, the roadmap is pretty clear and includes a strategic partnership with Kenissi to provide manufacture movements. Today the brand launches two new models in the Freedom collection, with new complications, sizes, materials and now fitted with COSC-certified manufacture engines. Meet the new Norqain Freedom 60 GMT & Freedom 60 39mm, including some bronze editions.It takes more than just luck and ambition to achieve this level of integration and development after only two years of existence. Norqain has a solid strategy and introduces products that are coherent, well executed and, more surprisingly, powered by solid movements made by Kenissi (owned by Chanel and Tudor/ ). This partnership was announced earlier th