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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
Revisiting The Most Classic Nomos, The Tangente 35mm Hand-Wound
Some watches are so emblematic that they alone define a brand: the Omega Speedmaster, the AP Royal Oak, or the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms. When I think about Nomos, my mind can’t skip it; it always returns to the Tangente. A classic among the classics, it was actually one of four watches launched at the time of the brand’s inception. And while the other three are surely having their own fanbase, none can compete with the aura of the Tangente. I’ve easily seen and handled a dozen of different Tangente watches, but, for an inexplicable reason, I never really tested the real one, the original; the 35mm hand-wound Nomos Tangente, known as reference 101 or 139 (the latter being shown here).?Let’s go back in time a bit… Precisely, in 1990. Or maybe even a couple of months before that. On 9 November 1989, something of immense importance happened in Germany, the Fall of the Berlin Wall. For about 40 years, Germany was divided between Western Germany, influenced by Oc
IWC drops a black dial in the Pilot's Watch Chronograph 41
Few watches are so easily identifiable as the IWC Pilot’s Watch. Even from across a room, you can spot the iconic shape and design of any IWC Pilot’s Watch, regardless of whether it’s a time-only, chronograph or even perpetual calendar watch. With such a long and storied history and its ongoing popularity, it’s only natural that IWC diversifies its Pilot’s Watch collections. Two years ago, IWC introduced a more compact 41mm version of its emblematic Pilot’s Watch Chronograph with green and blue dials. But one thing was missing really, and that’s been corrected today with the new IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph 41 with a matte black dial.With the introduction of the new 41mm-sized Pilot’s Watch Chronograph in 2021 came some minor updates to the case’s architecture. The reduction in size also meant a slight decrease in height (now 14.6mm) and an upgrade in water-resistance (from 60m to 100m). Overall, it’s still instantly re
Jaeger-LeCoultre Jubilee Collection 180 years - Tribute to Antoine LeCoultre - Monochrome Watches
Ok. How do we do this?? Where do we start?? I suggest you sit back, take a deep breath, set aside anything you might have seen in the past couple of years, hold tight and enjoy the following three (Yes, THREE!!) timepieces by Le Grande Maison: Jaeger-LeCoultre.Jaeger-LeCoultre was founded in the Swiss Vallee de Joux region back in 1833, and for you quick thinkers that means that this year they exist 180 years. Now who can let that go by unattended? Exactly, no one. They have released a trio of absolutely stunning timepieces that boggle the mind and all comprehensible senses. Not just one timepiece to celebrate their birthday, but three extra special and highly exclusive creations. Ad - Scroll to continue with article First of, and this takes another deep breath just to pronounce correctly, is the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon 3 Jubilee.
Richard Mille Introduces the RM028 Orange Flash and 3 More Limited Editions for the EMEA Region - Monochrome Watches
Richard Mille is synonymous for luxury sports watches, or maybe even synonymous for the ultimate luxury in sports watches. Whether it’s a big round dive watch with a tourbillon or a an extremely light-weight tonneau shaped watch with a tourbillon that can be worn when playing golf, like the RM038 Bubba Watson Tourbillon; Richard Mille creates timepieces for people who also have a Black Card for a credit card and a Vertu instead of a boring middle-class iPhone.?What sets Richard Mille’s watches apart from the crowd, are the iconic case designs and the unmistakably?recognizable?three-dimensional sculptures that his mechanical movements are. Richard Mille has taken luxury sports watches to a level, where even the veterans of the watch industry didn’t dare to go.This week Richard Mille announced four new watches. There will be a black edition of the RM 055 Bubba Watson (being the Bubba Watson watch without the tourbillon), two tourbillon watches in a carbon case and one r
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