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IWC Pilots Watch Timezoner Edition Le Petit Prince IW395503 - Hands-On
IWC has a long tradition of pilot’s watches, which goes back to as far as 1936, and includes some icons such as the 1940s Big Pilot's Watches or post-War Mark 11 models. Since the mid-1990s, the concept has become an entire collection of the Schaffhausen-based manufacture. However, there’s more than the classic models and the brand has developed special sub-collections such as the vintage Spitfire, the technical Top Gun or the Petit Prince, with trademark blue dials. Today, we give a closer look at the latest watch to bear this name, the recently-introduced Pilot’s Watch Timezoner Edition “Le Petit Prince” IW395503 and its rather interesting bezel mechanism.The “Le Petit Prince” collection commemorates the literary work of the author Antoine de Saint-Exupery, whose wonderful story The Little Prince is one of the best-selling books in literary history. Saint-Exupery, in addition to being a world-famous author, was also a?pioneering aviator, a su
Some Of The Coolest Nicknames in Automotive History, Part 1 - Monochrome Watches
Nicknames, I'm sure we all had one at one point in our life. Personally, I am sometimes referred to as the big guy due to my sturdy 2.01m frame. We also have quite a range of nicknames for watches; the Pepsi, Kermit and Hulk for instance, or the Omega Speedy, Tudor Snowflake, Seiko Tuna, etc. The list is almost endless. Things are rather similar in cars, especially cars that stand out from the crowd. We all know the VW Beetle is often called bug, but there are more interesting nicknames out there. Some funny, some quite offensive, and mostly down to one attribute. Today we pay tribute to some of the greatest nickname bestowed on cars.Chaparral 2J a.k.a. “the Vacuum Cleaner”We've featured this car before, in our first Weird and Wonderful Automotive Innovations episode, but considering it is properly unusual and carries a few nicknames, it fits right in here. The Chaparral 2J was so extreme, they never got it running properly and was eventually outlawed. It effectively rend
Event Report - Behind The Scenes With Tissot at The Tour de France
Pain, passion, glory The Tour de France is widely considered the most prestigious and most difficult cycling race. 3,350 kilometres are being raced in 2022, split up over 21 days of racing. Every detail counts in this challenging competition between 176 riders, and, against time. Cycling fans all remember the 1989 Greg LeMond victory over Laurent Fignon, by just 8 seconds, the smallest ever in the history of the Tour de France: timekeeping is essential to the dream of racing cyclists. Tissot has been involved in a range of cycling events for over 50 years and, as the official timekeeper of the Tour de France, the brand plays an essential role in the captivating narrative that unfolds every summer. We were lucky enough to be invited for a formidable weekend in Lausanne, to go behind-the-scenes of timekeeping at the Tour de France 2022.Yours truly participating (above) – below: inside Le Tour, a unique opportunity to ride the last 50 kilometres of Tour de France 2022 Stage 8, with
Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle Tourbillon China Limited Edition
Swiss high-end manufacturer Vacheron Constantin has a long tradition of delivering specific watches to the Middle Kingdom. For instance, every year, the brand creates Metiers d’Art watches dedicated to the Chinese zodiac signs, such as the recently launched Year of the Tiger models. Today, Vacheron releases another model exclusively made for the Chinese market, however, in a much more restrained way. Entirely dressed in Imperial Green, here’s the new Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle Tourbillon China Limited Edition.This exclusive model is not entirely new and is based on an existing (and very attractive) model, the automatic Traditionnelle Tourbillon with a peripheral rotor. What the brand has done here is to introduce a symbolic colour that echoes the culture of the country where these 30 pieces will be delivered. In China, the expression “a real gentleman is elegant and dignified just as the Jade” has been used since ancient times to describe a man with a no
Vacheron Constantin Overseas Self-Winding Pink Gold Bracelet & Blue Dial
Today marks the opening of the first edition of Watches & Wonders Shanghai, the Chinese version of the haute horlogerie show normally held in Geneva. One of the exhibiting brands is Vacheron Constantin, which has something new in its luxury sports watch range… Well, something more luxury than sports in the present case, as Vacheron Constantin unveils its Overseas Self-Winding 4500V for the first time on a solid gold bracelet, fitted with a blue Overseas dial.?The Overseas is Vacheron’s answer to the popularity of watches with an integrated bracelet, as the direct descendent of the iconic reference 222, once upon a time a competitor of the Royal Oak and the Nautilus. The present version is the latest model in a lineage introduced in 1996, and as such, the Overseas remains one of the most legitimate watches in this highly coveted segment. This third and latest Overseas collection, launched in 2016, is the closest in spirit to the first generation with deliberate vintage t
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