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Recap: The Best Luxury Sports Watches Of 2023
We’re all well aware how the luxury sports watch segment has exploded over the past few years. To the point, sadly, where the usual suspects have become unavailable and often subject to speculation. Luckily, though, affordable alternatives have penetrated the market, and even independent watchmakers have stepped up to meet demand. Although the market has calmed down a bit, the luxury sports watch remains one of the most popular segments in the industry. We’ve gone through all the new entries that were released this year and have narrowed it down to what we think are the five Best Luxury Sports Watches of 2023.From affordable entries to proper haute horlogerie watches, there’s something for everyone to enjoy when it comes to the luxury sports watch. The integrated sports watch design, pioneered by the late great Gerald Genta, hasn’t lost any of its appeal. On the contrary, the segment is booming with newcomers entering the fray. New collections often take a look
Tutima Grand Flieger Classic Automatic - Monochrome Watches
Many brands are associated with pilot watches these days, which is among the most popular of styles. IWC, Breitling, Zenith, Laco, Hamilton and scores of others have long histories with these tools of aviation and bona fide war credentials to back up contemporary offerings. Glashutte-based Tutima is on this list and perhaps best known for the legendary Flieger Chronograph of 1941. In 2013, the brand released the Grand Flieger Classic Chronograph as a modern take on the 1941 original with design cues harkening back to World War II. The Grand Flieger Classic Automatic is a three-hand variant of the chronograph with a day/date complication and similar wartime roots. Let's take a closer look at this affordable modern classic.BACKGROUNDTutima was founded in 1927 by Dr. Ernst Kurtz who formed two watch factories from the recently bankrupt Glashutte's Deutsche Pr?zisions-Uhrenfabrik (DPUG). Urofa (Uhren-Rohwerke-Fabrik Glashutte AG) concentrated on the production of ebauches while Ufag (Uhren
Bell & Ross WW2 Regulateur Officer - Full review (live photos, specs & price) - Monochrome-Watches
Bell & Ross introduced the WW2 collection a couple of years back with their military inspired WW2 Regulateur, known at that time as the Regulateur Bomber. They've dropped that name, for quite obvious reasons I can imagine, now they bring a new edition that is a little more sophisticated than the original: the Bell & Ross WW2 Regulateur Officer. Here is the full review after several weeks on the wrist.The first Bell & Ross WW2 Regulateur, introduced during Baselworld 2012, was inspired by an old bomb-timer that pilots used to have strapped to their leg. This timing instrument was used to time the release of a bomb as exact as possible to obtain their objectives and destroy their designated targets (these watches are a specific kind of navigation tools. You can read our in-depth history of pilot watches here: part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5). No high-tech GPS wizardry or computer guided smart-bombs were available yet so the pilots had to rely on their own basic ins
Hands-on: Deciphering The Tudor Pelagos FXD GMT
While I’m no expert on the subject of Mil-Spec watches, or military-related timing instruments in general, I do know instantly if I like a watch or not. And every now and then a watch comes along that wins me over with its first impression, only to be disappointed when I see it in real life for the first time. Luckily, it also happens the other way around. Press images don’t always do a watch justice, as for me, was the case with the Tudor Pelagos FXD GMT, a watch that sounded great on paper but looked a little underwhelming at first. That was until I strapped it on, and things started to make sense little by little. So, I decided to try and break down what made me change my mind, in hopes I can shine a more detailed light on this very utilitarian watch for you.?On a personal note, I have a deep love for Tudor. Back in 2016, I purchased my first Tudor watch, a Black Bay 79220N (yes, the ETA-powered one in black), just a week before I bought my first house with my now-wife.
Buying Guide - Some of the Coolest Watches With Meteorite Dial
Meteorite is one of the most fascinating objects/materials you can find on Earth, even though it doesn’t come from Earth… They are pieces of debris from a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid that originate in outer space and survive their passage through the atmosphere to reach Earth’s surface. So yes, these are made from one of the only materials you can find on the surface of Earth, but that isn’t sourced from our own planet… and that is quite cool! And then comes the material itself. When it comes to using this material on dials, brands almost always use iron meteorites or ferrous meteorites that consist overwhelmingly of an iron-nickel alloy known as meteoric iron and originate from cores of planetesimals.A slice of the Gibeon meteorite - image by Christie'sMany brands have sourced the material from Gibeon, something of a ‘star’ in the world of meteorites. It hurtled through the atmosphere and crashed on Earth in prehistoric times in what is toda
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