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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,
Breaking New President at Omega - Stephen Urquhart to retire, Raynald Aeschlimann to take over - Monochrome Watches
Taking the opportunity of his forthcoming 70th birthday, Mr. Stephen Urquhart, actual President of Omega Watches?(since 2000), is about to retire and to leave his?seat to a younger man, Mr.?Raynald Aeschlimann. Starting his new role on 1 June 2016,?Aeschlimann will have the responsibility to guide one of the largest watch company around the world, Omega Watches, part of the main watch conglomerate, the Swatch Group. Ad - Scroll to continue with article Mr. Stephen Urquhart, actual President of Omega Watches (credits – chronos24.pl)Stephen Urquhart, Swiss and British citizen and actual President of Omega Watches, began his career at Omega in 1968. From 1974 to 1997 he pursued his career with Audemars Piguet, where he became Joint Chairman and Delegate of the Board of Directors from 1989 onwards. Mr. Urquhart returned to Swatch Group in 1997 as President of
Pre SIHH 2015: Cartier comes with the Rotonde de Cartier Annual Calendar, now in 40mm (specs and price) - Monochrome-Watches
Downsizing is a trend that is clearly growing in the industry since the previous?editions of the SIHH and Baselworld. After years of watches sized over 42mm and more, large brands are coming back to more reasonable cases’ dimensions. Following this trend, Cartier updates its?Rotonde de Cartier Annual Calendar and introduces a 40mm edition, alongside the already existing 45mm version. Furthermore, this new Rotonde comes with several technical improvements.The main objective of horology had always been?miniaturization. The most demanding challenge is not to create complications but to implement them into the smallest case possible. Except when an incredible?level of technology requests a large case – like in the 48mm HYT H1 or the 47mm Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime – a watch should not be sized over 42mm or 43mm, especially when talking about a dress watch. First, it contradicts the main reason of horology. Then, it ruins two of the most important factors of the?wear
Vacheron Constantin FiftySix Complete Calendar - Review (Specs & Price)
When Vacheron Constantin announced the introduction of a new collection, the?FiftySix, just ahead of the SIHH 2018, we were (in all honesty) rather sceptical. I can recall discussions with Frank about the design, the way the brand communicated the model, the “entry-level” approach or the millennial?target. But as they say, first impressions can be wrong… So we decided to give this?Vacheron Constantin FiftySix a second chance, but this time by wearing it. And for that, we chose the most complex (and most appealing) version, the?Complete Calendar.Why were we sceptical about the VC?FiftySix?Being journalists – or at least, people who run a magazine – we usually receive visuals and press releases about new models in advance. In this way, we have time to prepare articles so you can enjoy reading about novelties right when they are officially launched. This was the case with the Vacheron Constantin FiftySix, which we discovered a few days before the SIHH 2018. Y
Tribute To 1969 - 5 Great Watches That Celebrate 50th Anniversaries / Buying Guide
1969 certainly was an eventful year. It is a year I would have loved to live: this was the year of the legendary music festival Woodstock; 1969 witnessed the first flight of the supersonic plane Concorde; the Rolling Stones recorded Let It Bleed; the Beatles gave the world Abbey Road; and Easy Rider and Once Upon a Time in the West were the cult films of the day. And, of course, man took his first steps on the Moon. 1969 was also a great year for the watchmaking industry with the advent of the automatic chronograph and a well-known chronograph enjoying a view of the Earth from an unprecedented perspective… Fifty years down the line, watch brands have been busy celebrating these 50th anniversaries with commemorative watches.? Here are the best of the lot.Glashutte Original SeaQ 1969 LimitedLet’s start with the least expected model (obviously, you have an idea of what the other watches will be…) This year, Glashutte Original introduces a brand new line of watches, named
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