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Maen, Reiser and Batavi provide honest, fun luxury sports watches
The luxury sports watch, preferably with an integrated design, has exploded in recent years. Both in contenders and in sales, as more and more brands enter this hotter-than-hot segment of the market. Regular faces and newcomers all want a piece of the action, and this leads to surprising new options to choose from. Today we're looking at three such watches on the more affordable side of the spectrum. And chauvinistic as we are sometimes, we've gone for three brands with Dutch ties to show you there are still plenty of fun watches to be found if you're willing to look beyond the usual suspects. Here are the new Maen Manhattan 37, the Reiser Alpen Skeleton and the Batavi Architect Tony Purple. ?Why so serious?We've said it time and time again: watches, to us, should be fun. They should bring joy to the owner, and an experience to remember for a long time if possible. I'm sure most of us remember the feeling of first seeing a watch, then hunting it down or waiting for it to be available,
Steve McQueen's vintage Heuer Monaco just sold for $799,500 - Monochrome Watches
Yes indeed, like the title says: Steve’s McQueen’s vintage Heuer Monaco was recently auctioned for $ 799.500 USD! An amount that might sound insane for some, others will think a price like this is more then justified. It just depends on how you look at it.Three years ago another vintage Heuer Monaco and a 5512, both owned McQueen, were sold for €?63.000 Euro (Heuer Monaco) and the 5512 sold for no less then € 167.000 Euro! Priced that cannot be justified by how rare these timepieces are, but mainly by the person who wore them. But with (possibly) 6 identified Heuer Monaco’s all owned by McQueen, is this price still sane? Ad - Scroll to continue with article Over at Chronocentric Onthedash, vintage Heuer expert and collector Jasper Bitter shares his knowledge about all six existing Heuer Monaco models he identified over the years. Although c
Hands-On: Chopard Alpine Eagle Cadence 8HF Titanium Black Dial
A descendant of the St. Moritz model of the late 1970s, Chopard's Alpine Eagle collection winged its way into the luxury sports watch scene in 2019. Now a fully fledged collection, the Alpine Eagle welcomes a second iteration of its 8Hz high-frequency movement on board the Alpine Eagle Cadence 8HF in titanium with a black dial with vibrant orange accents.High-frequency movements are considered to improve the precision and stability of movements. Chopard's experimentation with high-frequency materialised in 2012 with L.U.C 8HF, followed by the 2017 Superfast Power Control Porsche 919. The Alpine Eagle received a high-frequency movement in 2021. Ad - Scroll to continue with article Sporty and fastLike the 2021 edition, Chopard unveils another 41mm chronometer with a modest thickness of 9.75mm and the robust yet lightweight properties associated with titanium. Whil
Pre-Baselworld 2015: The Arnold & Son TBTE Tourbillon - True Beat Tourbillon Escapement (Price and Specs) - Monochrome Watches
Arnold & Son is on a roll. The other day they we could show you their Constant Force Tourbillon?–?a magnificent piece of horological achievement in precision timekeeping – and today we can show you another spectacular highlight, called the Arnold & Son TBTE Tourbillon. Not many watch brands have the prowess to introduce two timepieces with a tourbillon in one year. Let alone two tourbillon watches, each with additional complications like a True Beat (i.e. dead beat seconds) or constant force mechanism. Let’s have a closer look at the Arnold & Son TBTE Tourbillon.Like the Constant Force Tourbillon, and many other complicated timepieces from Arnold & Son, it offers a view that is equally technical as well as spectacular. Also like may Arnold & Son timepieces, it features a dead beat second hand (seconde morte in French) or as Arnold & Son prefer to call it: True Beat, meaning the second hand ticks like quartz watch. The TBTE Tourbillon offers a v
Pre Baselworld 2014: Introducing the Ulysse Nardin Perpetual Manufacture - Monochrome Watches
The Non-Plus-Ultra when it comes to perpetual calendars has always been the GMT +/- Perpetual from Ulysse Nardin, and developed by mastermind Ludwig Oechslin. It was the first perpetual calendar that allowed the time zones and date to be adjusted both forward and backward. While most other perpetual calendar watches had to be sent to the service center, when you adjusted the date wrongly, not so for the GMT +/- Perpetual from UN. After our pre-Baselworld introduction of the Dual-Time Manufacture (also with that nifty adjustment that goes forward and backwards) it’s time to present to you the new Perpetual Manufacture. The Perpetual Manufacture is a numbered and limited edition of 250 pieces in rose gold and 250 pieces in platinum, to launch GMT +/- Perpetual with the new in-house movement, caliber UN-32. This movement features a silicon escapement (anchor, escape wheel and roller) and hairspring, which means that the most fragile parts in the movement are not affected by magnetis
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