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Hands-On - The The New Hublot Classic Fusion Original Collection
Although Hublot has become one of the world's most prominent Swiss watchmakers, it remains a relatively young brand. Everything started about 40 years ago with a luxury sports watch with an unprecedented combination of materials, in particular gold and rubber. Hublot brings back this now classic model in three different sizes, each available in three materials. Let's take a closer look at the new Hublot Classic Fusion Original Collection.The origins of Hublot go back to the late 1970s when the Italian entrepreneur Carlo Crocco left the Binda Group to create his own watch company, MDM Geneve, the acronym for Marie-Danielle Montres and later Montre Des Montres (the watch of all watches in French). At Baselworld 1980, Crocco launched a luxury sports watch called the Hublot (porthole in French). The model turned out to be so successful that the name would be used for the brand itself, while this inaugural model was later known as the Classic Fusion.The original Hublot watch of 1980The Hubl
IWC launches Three Boutique Edition Pilot Watches - Monochrome Watches
Although IWC dedicated this year entirely to re-engineering the Ingenieur collection (check our extensive coverage here, here and here), they still had time to launch three boutique editions of the Pilot Watch collection. A?Big Pilot's Watch Top Gun, a Big Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar?Top Gun?and a Pilot's Watch Chronograph Top Gun?are preparing to take off and bring more colour into the fleet. This colorful trio features?details in the form of red, green and blue hands and indices and they are available in limited editions at IWC boutiques around the world.IWC Schaffhausen's designers found inspiration for the three Top Gun Boutique editions from the cockpit instrument found in jets. The Pilot's Watch Chronograph TOP GUN Boutique Edition (Ref. IW388003)?comes with blue hands and indices, the Big Pilot's Watch Top Gun Boutique Edition (Ref. IW501903) with green and the Big Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar Top Gun Boutique Edition (Ref. IW502903)?with red. All three come in a?cerami
2020 Longines Spirit Collection Pilot's Watch (Specs & Price)
Longines has a long history of instrument watches, for military forces, sportsmen or pilots. Some of the greatest explorers or pioneers put their trust in the ‘winged hourglass’ on their incredible journeys, benefiting from the brand’s expertise as they conquered air, land and sea. Think Lindbergh, Heinmuller, Van Horn Weems, Piccard and many others. Today, the brand is unveiling a new collection of instrument watches that pays tribute to this pioneering spirit. Meet the new Longines Spirit Collection, composed of a time-and-date and a chronograph with a chronometer-certified movement. Ad - Scroll to continue with article Longines and the PioneersFounded in 1832 in Saint-Imier in the Swiss Jura, Longines became renowned for timing sports events thanks to its early chronograph pocket watches. With the advent of aeroplanes
2019 Seiko 5 Sports Watches - Full Review, Specs & Price
When Seiko presented the Prospex LX Line at Baselworld 2019, there were long and vehement discussions on the pertinence of such a collection, and how the brand was way out of line for trying to compete with the sacred cows of Swiss watchmaking (understand here and Omega) in their own arena: sport watches with a price between EUR 5,000-8,000, depending on the model – and not even members of the Grand Seiko family.?This was just the beginning… Ad - Scroll to continue with article However, that was nothing compared to what happened a few months after Baselworld when Seiko unveiled the new Seiko 5 Sports collection: reactions hit stratospheric levels. But not because of what was arriving per se, but because of what was departing. Let's take a look at what generated this hot topic of debate, the relaunched Seiko 5 Sports Watches 2019 Collection.
Street art hits the wrist - Manufacture Royale ADN Street Art Collection (Photos, Specs and Price) - Monochrome Watches
After colourful street artist collaborations from Richard Mille and?TAG Heuer, independent high-end brand Manufacture Royale has now unveiled?its own street art-inspired model. The Manufacture Royale ADN Street Art Collection stands out for?its unique architecture, like the rest of the ADN collection, and now adds a dose of colour, ‘dressing up’ its movement. As a result of the?graphic design process, and water printing, each one of these bold timepieces is unique.The Manufacture Royale ADN (DNA in French) Street Art Collection is an evolving spatial architecture. The structure of its movement is based on overlapping squares, now enlivened by striking colors. This angular, colored, external skeleton, frames the parts of the movement underlining the symmetry of the barrel and tourbillon cage at 6 o'clock. This modern construction is animated by the ballet of a one-minute tourbillon whose cage is unusually square. Ad - Scroll to continue with article
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