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A. Lange & Sohne Zeitwerk Minute Repeater White Gold/Blue Dial (Price)
One of the most advanced watches of our day, A.Lange & Sohne’s Zeitwerk Minute Repeater is the only watch in the world to combine a jumping numeral display with a decimal minute repeater. Five years after its debut, the Zeitwerk Minute Repeater is revisited in 2020 in a 30-piece limited white gold edition with a blue dial.BackgroundThe first Zeitwerk model, introduced in 2009, featured two apertures for the jumping minutes and hours displayed horizontally. Its unusual digital format immediately captured the attention of watch enthusiasts for its legible and highly intuitive reading of the time from left to right. Revisited a year later with a smoked sapphire crystal to reveal the movement and nicknamed the Zeitwerk Lumen, a Zeitwerk Striking Time model was launched in 2011 offering quarter-hour strikes on demand.Seeing and Hearing SimultaneouslyHowever, the big news came in 2015 with the Zeitwerk Minute Repeater. The novelty here was the incorporation of a decimal repeater, a
Introducing New Hamilton Pan Europ Automatic Editions (Live Pics & Price)
For over a decade now, vintage-inspired designs continue to reign in the watchmaking kingdom, with brands drawing from vast archives of the 1960s and 1970s. In 2011, Swatch Group’s Hamilton revealed the Pan Europ Chronograph, a limited re-edition of the 1971 Pan Europ Chronomatic, which was one of the first Swiss-made Hamilton watches, equipped with the now legendary Calibre 11 – one of the world’s first automatic chronograph movements, developed in cooperation with Breitling and Heuer on a base from Buren. A faithful re-interpretation differed from the emblematic original in many aspects; still, it was a hit, as it kept alive the vintage vibes and groovy moods, and it was trendy, too. The success led Hamilton to add a simplified non-chronograph version to the assortment in 2014, a day-date Pan Europ Automatic. The model remains in the Hamilton American Classic collection, executed in blue with white and red elements and with another capsule version in black and gold,
Zenith El Primero - 40 years - Monochrome Watches
I recently blogged about the world’s first automatic chronograph, Calibre 11, developped by Heuer, Breitling, Buren en Dubois-Depraz. Not much later Zenith launched their first automatic chronograph, the famous El Primero. This means that the Zenith also celebrates the 40th of the El Primero. To celebrate this Zenith comes with 5 Anniversary models.Caliber 3019 – the first El PrimeroThe El Primero was developed in 1969 and rapidly became a standard of reference among automatic movements. The El Primero is still considered by many to be the best automatic chronograph. The first was a caliber 3019 column wheel chronograph with 31 jewels, beating at 36,000 beat per hour, it capable of measuring short time intervals to 1/10th second.The El Primero with it’s precision enables it to succeed in passing the tests of the COSC (Swiss Official Control of Chronometers). The chronograph function can be operated with two push-buttons and it features an instantaneous date-change mec
Hands-On - Chopard Mille Miglia 2018 Race Edition (Specs & Price)
Chopard celebrates its 30-year anniversary as the partner and official timekeeper of the Mille Miglia race with two limited edition chronographs designed to bring the spirit of this classic car rally to the wrist. Fitted with COSC-certified movements, both the stainless steel and the two-tone steel and rose gold model of the Mille Miglia 2018 Race Edition are more vintage-inspired than the Mille Miglia GTS Power Control Grigio Speciale watch – also launched at Baselworld 2018. Sporting handsome engine-turned dials to capture the look and feel of a vintage car dashboard, here are two watches that will fuel the fantasies of car/watch fanatics. Getting mileage from a rallyAs the co-president of Chopard, Karl-Friedrich Scheufele obviously has a soft spot for mechanical watches. But his passion for larger engines in the form of vintage automobiles verges on obsession. As a collector of vintage cars, a racer and sponsor of two of the most prestigious classic car racing events (Mille Mi
History of the Patek Philippe Calatrava Part 2 - Important Models Through Time - Monochrome Watches
Yesterday, we brought you Part. 1 of our History of the Patek Philippe Calatrava, looking back at where it all began: the Reference 96. That original 1932 model has become a design icon, not to mention the basis on which every other Calatrava reference has been modelled. Emphasising the Bauhaus concept of form follows function, the original Ref. 96 provided the blueprint for the ultimate dress watch, a blueprint that been replicated many, many times by both Patek Philippe and other brands. Today, we're taking a closer look at some of the notable Calatrava models that followed the Ref. 96, models that themselves have gone on to become extremely collectible. This is not an exhaustive list by any means, just the ones we thought to be the most emblematic, so please free to add any significant models you personally love in the comments below, and the reasons why they are important to you.Patek Philippe Calatrava Ref. 565 and Ref. 570 The Patek Philippe Calatrava Ref. 570As perfectly proport
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