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A. Lange & Sohne Zeitwerk Date // Video Review
It is often said that in watchmaking the entry-level complication – understand here any additional indication that isn’t the hours, minutes or seconds – is the date function. While this is true for most of the watches, when it comes to a masterpiece of engineering such as the A. Lange & Sohne Zeitwerk, adding a date was a veritable technical challenge. Because of the ultra-complex display of this watch, adding a simple date window wasn’t possible. But this wasn’t enough to stop the team managed by Anthony de Haas, director of product development, who today gives us a full explanation of how the A. Lange & Sohne Zeitwerk Date was developed and how it is manufactured, in the video at the top of this article.?What’s so special about a date window? Usually, the answer is nothing. It is the most common, the simplest of all complications. You can find it in the most affordable automatic watches, simply because it is a disc rotating under the dial a
Introducing: The New Bulgari Serpenti Pallini High-Jewellery Collection
It’s fair to say that Bulgari's ultra-thin Octo Finissimo watches have stolen the limelight for the past decade. However, Bulgari's laurels have rested for decades on its fabulous and creative high-jewellery watches, spearheaded by the brand's mascot, the Serpenti. Decked with fabulous gemstones, flexible Tubogas straps or whirling with tourbillons, Bulgari's Serpenti has countless guises. A new trilogy of Serpenti Pallini jewellery watches powered by Bulgari's miniature Piccolissimo calibre form part of the brand’s novelties unveiled during Geneva Watch Days. Bulgari's theme this year is sound, and the rare en tremblant setting of the tiny gold beads and diamonds that quiver with the slightest movement generate tiny vibrations.Bulgari's first Serpenti watch appeared in the late 1940s with a tubular coiling Tubogas bracelet. From the mid-1950s on, the Serpenti took on more realistic features, and the dial was hidden under a hinged cover on the snake's head. The muse for the
Baume & Mercier Capeland Shelby Cobra 1963 & Capeland Shelby Cobra 1963 Competition (specs & price) - Monochrome Watches
Now that the SIHH?is opened, we have already seen the main novelties of IWC, Jaeger, Lange and Vacheron for example. However, we shouldn't forget another brand, which despite being the most exclusive one also creates interesting and well-priced timepieces. Usually playing on the classical side, this year Baume & Mercier goes bold and sporty. After the first editions we showed you here, here are the new editions of the?Baume & Mercier Capeland Shelby Cobra 1963 & Capeland Shelby Cobra 1963 Competition.The first editions of the?Baume & Mercier Capeland Shelby Cobra were of course classical and faithful to the car it pays tribute to. In the common psyche, the?Shelby AC Cobra was blue with large white stripping's. Thus, the watches were showing the same colors, with blue dials, light blue stripes and silver sub-dials (and a few red accents… racing theme obliged). For the SIHH 2016, Baume & Mercier continues the partnership and introduces new editions, also based o
Ulysse Nardin Freak S Limited Edition 2022 (Live Pics, Price)
The launch of the Ulysse Nardin Freak in 2001 shook up the watch world. This disruptive avant-garde masterpiece smashed all conventions and pioneered the use of silicon in this industry Over the past 20 years, the model evolved in many directions. But this horological UFO has always followed the same guiding principle of being a laboratory on the wrist. Presented on the occasion of Watches and Wonders 2022, the Ulysse Nardin Freak S is very much a Freak offspring. Yet, it further propels the model into tri-dimensional space-age watchmaking, with its starship design and two out-of-this-world inclined oscillators reminding of turboprops.?Over the past 20 years, the Freak has been an extraordinary laboratory for experimentation and innovation at Ulysse Nardin, leading to countless developments. Several of Ulysse Nardin's innovative escapements and oscillators were born inside the Freak, like the crazy InnoVision 2 Presented on the occasion of Watches and Wonders 2022, the new Freak S inte
The 2021 Revamped Oris Aquis Depth Gauge (Specs, Price)
Oris has a strong reputation when it comes to serious, professional-oriented, highly capable yet relatively accessible dive watches. Under the Aquis and Prodiver collections, the brand has already presented multiple instruments for aquatic purposes. Think, for instance, about the Meistertaucher. Or the new AquisPro. One that has long been in the collection and that has been praised by the diving community is the?Oris Aquis Depth Gauge, which we covered in details here. Equipped with a clever, safe and easy-to-use system to measure depth (the most simple you can imagine actually), it comes back this year with multiple small upgrades and refinements, both visually and mechanically. Here’s the 2021 Oris Aquis Depth Gauge.The first-generation of Oris Aquis Depth GaugeThe Oris Aquis Depth Gauge is one of the brand’s most acclaimed dive watches, not only because of its look and feel, but mainly because of its cleverly simple construction for the main function, measuring depth. La
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