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Eric Claptons Patek Philippe 5975R Chronograph 175th Anniversary For Sale - Monochrome Watches
While browsing on Instagram the other day, I noticed a post from the popular watch account @Patekaholic about a particular Patek Philippe posted through the portal website 1stdibs, which showcases various luxury items for sale to be posted to a wider audience. After clicking through to the website of the seller – Xupes – about the watch in question, the previous owner of the timepiece stood out immediately. It belonged to guitar legend and seasoned watch collector, Eric Clapton.Clapton is known to love timepieces, particularly and Patek Philippe. He even mentioned his love of Patek Philippe watches in his autobiography. He previously owned the only platinum Patek Philippe 2499 in private hands (the other example is in the Patek Philippe Museum), which sold at auction for US$3.6 million, a very rare Yacht-Master prototype based on a Daytona and a 6263 Daytona nicknamed “The Albino” due to its monochromatic white dial. Ad - Scroll to continue with
Hublot Big Bang Integral 42mm Integrated Bracelet // Introducing, Price
It is hard to overlook the current trend for sports watches with integrated bracelets… They are simply all over the place and in all price segments. Hublot, one of the main participants in the robust luxury sports watch, has been aware of this and already had such an option in its Classic Fusion watch. But, surprisingly, the Big Bang, the sportier, bolder version (a competitor to the RO Offshore) has never been offered on a bracelet… until now. Meet the new Hublot Big Bang Integral collection.While the Classic Fusion could be seen as an alternative to the thin and relatively restrained watches in the luxury sports watch category, the other main collection of Hublot, the Big Bang, is a more robust, even more contrasted version with a larger case, more combinations of materials, more angles, more skeletonization… More of everything, if you like. And while integrated metallic bracelets are everywhere these days, Hublot has been surprisingly quiet in this field. At least
The Speedmaster Chronicles #3 - @VintageWatchzilla, Moonwatch Collector
Our series of videos “The Speedmaster Chronicles” started with two insiders. One is the fFormer NASA Program Manager and Aerospace Engineer who tested and certified the Moonwatch before going to the Moon. The other is no less than Mister Speedy Tuesday, our dear friend Robert-Jan Broer. Today, for Episode 3, we move on the other side of the watchmaking planet, with a collector. We won’t show his face nor mention his full name. Some of you may know him from his Instagram pseudonym:?@VintageWatchzilla. What we’ll show you though is one of the greatest collections of Omega Speedmaster we’ve seen recently.?VintageWatchzilla has some pretty nice watches and the knowledge that goes along.Collecting watches is a fun hobby. We all know that. There’s something more that we all know… Watch collecting, especially when focusing on vintage pieces, can become tricky. This is why, for our?series of videos “The Speedmaster Chronicles”, we wanted to
Hands-On Seiko Prospex SRPA21 PADI Turtle - A nice, colorful, affordable dive watch for summer (live pics, specs & price) - Monochrome Watches
Imagine you are looking for a new watch, a watch that you could easily wear during summer, weekends, holidays, to the pool, for all kind of leisure activities, with a solid construction, a robust water resistance, a rather cool look, slightly vintage-inspired, from a reputable manufacture, with in-house movement and automatic (of course). What could be the options? A Tudor Black Bay? A Hulk Submariner? A Seamaster 300? If you don’t have (or don’t want to spend) €3k to €7k, the best option is coming from the other watchmaking heaven, Japan. And for an almost ridiculous 429 Euros, you can have all of that, in the name of the?Seiko Prospex SRPA21 PADI Turtle. And here is why it’s such a cool and?nice dive watch for summer (and more).The?Seiko Prospex SRPA21 PADI Turtle is cool because it’s a vintage reissue…That’s something our own “professor“, Mister Ilias Giannopoulos, already explained when introducing and first testing the new Seiko SRP
Pre SIHH 2014: Introducing the Jaeger-LeCoultre Grande Reverso Ultra Thin 1931 Pink Gold Case and Chocolate-toned Dial - Monochrome Watches
Three years after introducing the first Grande Reverso Ultra-Thin Tribute to 1931, Jaeger-LeCoultre created a second pink gold version, now featuring a lovely chocolate brown dial. The full name of this watch – Jaeger-LeCoultre Grande Reverso Ultra Thin 1931 Pink Gold Case and Chocolate-toned Dial – is quite a mouthful. The name might be a tongue-twister, but with these looks it can easily become a heart-breaker as well. (pre-Jaeger) LeCoultre Reverso from 1934The Reverso finds its roots in the polo game, back in the 1930’s, and has appear in many different variations over the years. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary, Jaeger-LeCoultre chose to return to the very origins by presenting the Grande Reverso Ultra Thin Tribute to 1931, which was directly inspired by the aesthetic codes of the historical model. The ultra-thin case, and just on the early models the dial lacks the brand name and only has the model name – Reverso – printed on it.Reverso models
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