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Recap: The Best Calendar Watches of 2024
Talking about calendar watches is a vast topic, which can range from fairly simple mechanisms to some of the most complex movements watchmakers have invented. Indeed, this category ranges from the classic triple calendar (mechanically, an evolution of the date complication with no self-adjustment of the length of the months) to the finest version, the secular perpetual calendar, watches that can automatically adapt to the smallest oddities of our Gregorian calendar. Looking at this category, we have to say that 2024 didn’t disappoint and brought us some incredible watches – one of them even won the prestigious GPHG. So here is our selection of the best calendar watches of 2024, from an eccentric planetarium to a secular perpetual calendar.Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar John MayerThere are multiple reasons why we’ve selected this John Mayer x Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar in this list of the best calendar watches. The first is quite obvious
Introducing: Tudor Has Just Dropped An Unexpected Black Bay Chrono PINK
This might well be the most unexpected release of Tudor in years. A couple of months ago, we already spotted something not supposed to exist, or at least, a watch that can’t actually be acquired by the general public. Released in the frame of the partnership with Visa Cash App RB F1 Team, Tudor created a Black Bay Ceramic blue dial “team watch” only for this occasion. Well, now it’s a sort of secret release, a watch that “might not be for everyone. And that's OK because few of them will ever be made,” (and that’s a quote from Tudor). What we know is that it’s a Black Bay Chrono Pink and… the rest seems to be a secret for those in the know. But we’ll try to know all about it during Watches and Wonders. If you look at Tudor’s Instagram page, you’ll see that it’s a proper sea of pink. Why that…? Well, yesterday, Tudor announced partnering with Inter Miami FC, becoming the Official Ti
Hands-On Greubel Forsey Balancier Contemporain (Specs & Price)
In the last years we have seen two very different faces of Greubel Forsey: on the one hand, we get extraordinarily complex watches with big cases and uneven shapes that look like a boxer after an unsuccessful fight night. Its famous GMT?is a prime example of that. On the other hand, GF also produces watches with round cases and simpler dials. Still the same insane obsession with the best finishes possible, but less information and a more traditional arrangement. It started with the Tourbillon 24 Secondes Vision, with live pictures here, that secured the manufacture the 2016 Aiguille d’Or, the highest prize at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve (GPHG). That same year we saw the Signature 1, with an even simpler structure. And that’s the case of the new Greubel Forsey Balancier Contemporain.Matters of SizeIn the case of the Greubel Forsey Balancier Contemporain, the size of the case is a complication in itself, because the original idea was to fit Greubel Forsey̵
Hands-On - Hamilton Khaki Field Murph 38mm (Specs & Price)
Movie-themed watches aren’t very uncommon, but it’s another thing to just create a watch?inspired?by a movie instead of creating a watch?to be worn in a movie. Either by chance, like with the Seiko worn in Apocalypse Now, or intentionally like with the Hamilton Khaki Field Murph. Regardless of the scenario, it can launch a watch into stardom, for instance when Steve McQueen wore the Heuer Monaco on-screen in the movie Le Mans, or James Bond donning various Omega Seamaster watches. Often just a form of product placement if we’re honest, the watch itself can become a major character in the plot of a movie (again, James Bond and his Q-branch issued Seamasters), which is basically what happened when Hamilton made a watch for Christopher Nolan’s 2014 epic science-fiction movie Interstellar. The Hamilton Khaki Field Murph played a huge role and was launched in a 42mm size in 2019, and now returns in a more compact 38mm diameter!The Khaki Field Murph 42mm (left) and 38
Hands-On - Rado Captain Cook High-Tech Ceramic Diver (Specs & Price)
Captain Cook and Rado are practically synonymous. The original model was released in 1962 as a 37mm diver with a water resistance of 200 metres. Although a stylish and very capable diver, it didn't find success like counterparts from Blancpain, and Seiko did in the mid-20th century. However, it was reintroduced in 2017 and has since become a hero collection for the brand. Although the aesthetic is vintage-inspired, Rado recently introduced high-tech ceramic for the case and bracelet, such as last year's Captain Cook High-Tech Plasma Ceramic. There are six new ceramic models with a contemporary size and materials for 2022.?Matte cases are available in high-tech ceramic or high-tech plasma ceramic, both an established speciality for Rado. The plasma ceramic is placed in an oven with gases activated at 20,000¡ãC to create a metallic sheen. Dimensions for all cases are 43mm in diameter and 14.6mm in height (49.8mm lug-to-lug), which follows some of last year's models. All cases have a mon
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