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First look: The Ultra-Complex IWC Portugieser Eternal Calendar (incl. Video)
IWC’s Portugieser Eternal Calendar is the undisputed calendar masterpiece of the Schaffhausen-based brand for Watches and Wonders 2024. A colossal technical milestone, the Eternal Calendar marks the brand’s first secular perpetual calendar. Unlike a perpetual calendar that will need a correction in 2100, the Eternal Calendar is fitted with a 400-year gear that overrides the Gregorian calendar’s complex leap year rule exceptions and skips three leap years over four centuries. In short, it will not need to be adjusted until 3999! Combined with a hyper-precision moon phase display that will deviate from the Moon’s orbit by one day in 45 million years, this Eternal Calendar in a platinum Portugieser case is a tour de force.Exceptions to the RuleSince antiquity, astronomers have invented instruments to observe, measure and predict the motions of our universe with ever-increasing accuracy. As explained in this article, calendars are one way of condensing this vast amo
5 Cool Finds - 5 Luxury Watches that look good, in every situation, everywhere... - Monochrome Watches
The “5 Cool Finds” are back, however?with a few changes… the biggest one being is that we changed to?a new, more reliable partner whom?we have a profound trust in: Chronext. We already explained to you all about this London-based?online marketplace for buying, selling, and servicing of luxury watches – and here, online goes together with the same?security and service as any high-end boutique (for more details – and the possibility to win a 2016 Explorer – please look here). What about the “5 Cool Finds”? Simple: 5 watches, not new, not vintage, most of the time young-timers (that we believe are?the new trend) that we selected for you. Today, we went for the efficient?selection: 5 luxury to high-end used watches that will look good now, in 10 years, during weekend of for business and that don’t scream their ‘luxury price’ – so-to-say, classics.This Patek Philippe Nautilus 5712 (for sale here) will look great in ev
Hands-On Chopard L.U.C Full Strike Tourbillon (Specs & Price)
To celebrate the Chopard manufacture's 20th anniversary in 2016, the brand made its first foray into the complex domain of minute repeaters. Determined not to produce just another' minute repeater, Chopard invested 15,000 hours in the lab surprised us all with its revolutionary use of sapphire crystal gongs that produce a unique crystalline sound. With its bold openworked dial exposing parts of the movement and the hammers, and its user-friendly crown-operated functionality, the L.U.C Full Strike took home the top Aiguille d'Or prize at the GPGH 2017. Today, and in light of the L.U.C collection's 25th anniversary, Chopard ups the ante with this 18k ethical rose gold Full Strike model with a tourbillon secured by a transparent sapphire bridge on the dial. A new complication requires a new movement and the L.U.C Full Strike Tourbillon flaunts a new chronometer-certified calibre. For the first time in the trajectory of the L.U.C Full Strike, the dial is almost closed, relegating the two o
MB&F LM Thunderdome Triple Axis Regulator / Review, Price
Max Busser and Friends, or simply MB&F, was created as an avant-garde horological lab with a vision: gathering talents to create radical mechanical art pieces. For its latest creation, Busser got two of his long-time friends to collaborate for the first time; the discreet Finnish master Kari Voutilainen and the inventive Eric Coudray. The result of this collaboration is spectacular, to say the least. Meet the MB&F Legacy Machine Thunderdome – and for the record, it features a fast triple-axis regulator a very fast one! Max Busser and Eric Coudray met some 20 years ago when they were both working at Jaeger-LeCoultre. In 2004, Coudray made a name for himself when the “Grande Maison” presented the cult Gyrotourbillon. Coudray and multi-axis tourbillons share a long history and the MB&F Legacy Machine Thunderdome does not fail to surprise and amaze. This triple-axis regulator watch is packed with intriguing features. And Kari Voutilainen
Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos Infinite - Watches and Wonders
Housed in a cylindrical glass container, JLC’s latest clock, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos Infinite, is a contemporary work of mechanical art that keeps its movement beating in perpetuity thanks to minuscule changes in the air temperature. The transparency of the container showcases the distinctive shape of its movement, from the annular balance at its base to the bellows, chains and gears. The minimalist design harks back to the first Atmos clocks of the 20th century with their rounded glass domes and sleek Art Deco design.A Perpetual Calibre running on AirHarnessing the power of changes in temperature to power mechanisms is hardly new. Heron of Alexandria (10 AD - 70 AD), a mathematician and engineer from the aforementioned city, constructed automatic devices powered by hot air, light years before the invention of the steam engine. You can read all about the history leading up to the Atmos, but suffice it to say that the predecessor of the Atmos clock appeared in Switzerland, desi
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