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Buying Guide: Some Of The Best Collaboration Watches Recently Launched
“Put two creative people in a room, and watch the magic happen.” While it might not exactly work like that, a joint project between two designers, artists or brands can lead to wonderful new things. It happens in art, it happens in fashion, and as you’ve guessed it, it happens in watchmaking. Over the years, the ‘collaboration game‘ has spawned some incredibly cool creations, often bringing two cultures together in one single watch. Even though it’s not a guaranteed recipe for success, these five recently introduced collaboration watches have a lot going for themselves!Zenith Defy Skyline Skeleton Night Surfer for time+tideThis Defy Skyline Skeleton Night Surfer is the second collaboration between Zenith and Australian watch publication Time+Tide. The striking-looking watch has a micro-blasted titanium case and an openworked movement. The blued top bridge is combined with applied indices, hands and accents in white Super-LumiNova. Inside, the El Prim
First Look: The Chopard L.U.C XP Urushi Year of the Dragon
Chinese New Year 2024 will fall on Saturday, the 10th of February, heralding the Year of the Dragon. The dragon holds a special place in Chinese culture, representing power, strength, and good fortune, and brands have started to announce their dragon-themed watches. Among these, Chopard had just unveiled the latest addition to its Chinese Zodiac collection – an L.U.C XP featuring a dial adorned with a captivating dragon motif meticulously crafted in Urushi lacquer. The superb dial of this limited-edition watch is handcrafted in Japan by Minori Koizumi, a craftsman specialising in the delicate Maki-e technique. Each dial requires no fewer than 20 hours of meticulous work. Rendered in exquisite detail, the dragon gracefully adorns the dial. Several layers of Urushi lacquer are applied and decorated with paint, gold flakes and mother-of-pearl inlays. Ad - Scroll to continue with article
Collecting vintage watches - an interview - Monochrome Watches
This is the first of a series of interviews with collectors that I got to know through the years. They all have one thing in common, which is a true passion for watches, mechanical watches that is.Through Facebook I got in touch with Boris, who collects vintage?watches and I asked him about the vintage Omega Speedmaster Professional he?just posted for sale. The reason for this, is that I’m searching for a?Speedmaster from 1971, my year of birth. Boris told me about his?Speedmaster and how he got interesting in collecting vintage watches.vintage Omega Speedmaster - from WikipediaMono: When did you get interested in watches? Ad - Scroll to continue with article Boris: I started about 14 years ago to collect old and used watches.?This didn’t start overnight, but was primarily the result of a visit?to a well-known dealer. I was ready to buy a watch for m
BCHH x Andersen Geneve Celestial Voyager Word Time - Hands-on, Price
The name BCHH might not be familiar to you, but it is the result of a dream, that of a longtime seasoned collector to create his high-end watchmaking brand. The acronym of Benjamin Chee Haute Horlogerie, the brand was founded in 2019, the man behind Celadon (created in 2012) and Mille?chron (created in 2018), to put his country, Singapore, on the map of traditional watchmaking. And talking about maps, the new watch to surface from this project couldn’t be more relevant, being a classical and refined world time watch. Today, we take a look at the BCHH Celestial Voyager, a series of seven ultra-exclusive watches made together with Andersen Geneve and showing impeccable, traditional execution.?BackgroundBehind BCHH is a man named Benjamin Chee, who’s been collecting watches for some years and decided to move to the other side, by creating his own brands. Chee first created Celadon in 2012, with a focus on dress watches and decorative crafts. In 2018, he then inaugurated a seco
2016 TAG Heuer Mikrograph 100th Anniversary - The TAG that goes vintage and fast - Monochrome Watches
You thought that TAG Heuer was only about to do?normal watches, with a more?entry-level objective – and we thought that too, especially after what we told you here. Well, it seems that it’s not going to be the case and that concept watches, even if rare, are still part of the new strategy implemented by Mister?Biver. As a proof, TAG Heuer will launch a new limited and exclusive watch, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Mikrograph, the first stopwatch able to time events to the 1/100th of a second. Here is the highly desirable?2016?TAG Heuer Mikrograph 100th Anniversary, the TAG that goes vintage and?fast,?and?still to the 1/100th of a second.The 1916 Heuer Mikrograph?StopwatchBack 100 years ago, Heuer was definitely one major player?in timing sports events. Their stopwatches were known all over the world as precise and reliable. Of course they had to be… Remember that at that time, the trust in official results and timing?of sports events was based and based on
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