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Collector's Series - Marko Koncina and His Cartier Tortue CPCP Perpetual Calendar
Today, we'll talk about a watch owned by someone that is a voice and face of the watchmaking community, someone that you might have already seen through your screens. Indeed, Marko Koncina is a 29-year-old entrepreneur from Zurich, Switzerland, and he is the driving force behind the Swiss Watch Gang Youtube and Instagram channels. Today, we'll discuss a watch that is supremely elegant, mechanically complex and rare. Marko will tell us about his great passion for a platinum Cartier Tortue Perpetual Calendar from the all-time classic CPCP collection – also known as Collection Privee Cartier Paris.Frank Geelen, MONOCHROME – When did this Cartier Tortue become yours? Ad - Scroll to continue with article Marko Koncina, Swiss Watch Gang – It became part of my collection in March 2021 and I bought it from a retailer in Luzern, Switzerland, which had i
Six Fascinating Rectangular Watches To Consider For The New Year
The new year has only just started, but we already have a piece of advice for you: if you’re hunting for new watches, which I guess most of you probably are, explore the industry a little. There is plenty of very interesting and cool stuff to be found off the beaten path, and it doesn’t take much to enter a whole new world you might have never known existed. Take rectangular watches, for instance, which offer a welcome break from the tons of round ones. And as you can tell from our selection, it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg to wear something stylish and Art Deco-inspired with a rectangular case. Then again, you can splurge if you really want to, as we’ll happily demonstrate in this Buying Guide!Alpina Heritage Carree Automatic 140 YearsLast year, Alpina celebrated its 140th anniversary in style with the Heritage Carree. The brand first introduced this sleek style in a pair of limited editions using New Old Stock movements?but followed that up with a non-limited
Introducing Ulysse Nardin Ocean Race Diver Chronograph Limited
The provenance of Ulysse Nardin might be a small, landlocked country, but thanks to its marine chronometers, the brand from Le Locle has always been closely associated with the sea since 1846. By the 1870s, Ulysse Nardin supplied more than 50 navies and merchant marine companies with precision marine deck chronometers. Today, the brand underscores its maritime credentials as the official timing partner of the exciting Ocean Race. Regarded as the longest (60,000 km) and toughest round-the-world team sailing challenge since 1973, the 14th edition of The Ocean Race kicked off in Alicante, Spain, in January 2023. Docking in nine cities around the globe over six months and finishing in Genoa in June, the teams have embarked on their fifth leg from Newport, Rhode Island, to Aarhus, Denmark. Taking advantage of the pit stop in Rhode Island and celebrating The Ocean Race’s 50th anniversary, Ulysse Nardin unveiled a 100-piece edition of its Ocean Race Diver Chronograph.The Ocean RaceOrigi
Urban Jurgensen 1140RG - Hands-On Review (Specs & Price)
Every brand, at least those with a historical background, has?its own hallmarks, those unmistakable signs that create its?DNA, helping people to quickly identify a watch from a certain brand. For some, it is the shape of the case or a hand, for others it could be the complication used. For one brand, Urban Jurgensen, these are small details, however with such a level of execution that they deserve an entire story in this magazine – something that we’ll try to illustrate with the latest addition to the catalogue, the superb 1140RG in Rose Gold with a dark brown dial.The?Urban Jurgensen reference 1140 is a watch that we already covered here, when the brand unveiled a stunning?platinum version, with blue dial and applied Breguet numerals (yes, in this case, the name Breguet doesn’t only refer to the manufacture but also to the shape of the numerals, which have been widely used in the watch industry). In this case, we refer to the classical version of this watch, with a t
Introducing: Piaget Polo Emperador Skeleton Tourbillon High Jewellery
Piaget is synonymous with ultra-thin movements and high jewellery watches, areas of expertise the brand started to cultivate in the late 1950s. Not many watch brands excel in both disciplines, and alongside its state-of-the-art watch manufacture outside Geneva and its historic site in La C?te-aux-Fees, Piaget owns the largest jewellery workshop in Geneva. The latest Piaget Polo Emperador is a stunning fusion of Haute Horlogerie and Haute Joaillerie, marrying an ultra-thin gem-set automatic skeletonised flying tourbillon movement to a white gold case dripping with bright green emeralds and fiery white diamonds.Piaget's dominion of ultra-thin movements was consolidated in its La C?te-aux-Fees manufacture with the introduction of the famous manual-winding calibre 9P in 1957, followed by the world's (at that time) thinnest automatic movement, the calibre 12P of 1960. The latest gem-set Polo Emperador perpetuates the brand's tradition of ultra-thin movements and is the extravagant sibling o
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