Talking Tastes, Trends, And Elton John's Watch Collection
Many people ultimately shy away from acrylic because they prefer a watch they don't have to think about, or one they don't have to baby. Interestingly enough, that is exactly how I think about the acrylic crystal. To me, it is rugged, durable, and lasting. So, whether you are a staunch acrylic defender, or a sapphire steward, I want to walk you through some of the reasons I find it to be so very appealing.A personal essay from HODINKEE's own editor-in-chief, Jack Forster, on what it meant to lust over a gold Rolex Day-Date for years – and then to finally get one under unique and fantastic circumstances.The raised luminous markers have a slightly billig zenith ure blue hue and silver surrounds that tend to look black in most environments. I think the fact that the color isn't perfectly matched is a benefit, not a detriment, keeping your eyes moving around the dial. The black hands, especially the second hand with the red and white tip, seem to float high off the dial. Frankly, it's just fun to look at, and isn't that at least a good portion of what you want in a watch?I watched the game as both a basketball junkie and a watch nerd. James entered the arena apparently wearing no watch at all. But after ringing up his 38,390th point, The King came through at the post game press conference wearing what looks to be a black ceramic AP Royal Oak Double Balance Wheel Openworked, to match his all-black threads.I'd love to see Cartier revisit its history of non-wristwatch stuff. Sure, there are the elegant mystery clocks of the 1920s or Joan Didion's Cartier desk clock (sold for $35,000), but I really love the quirky stuff. Throw a mechanical watch on a money clip or inside a roulette wheel, just because it looks cool.Hublot debuted their first sapphire Big Bang in 2016. Since then we've seen a fairly steady release of the Hublot sapphire rainbow: purple Sapphire, blue Sapphire, orange sapphire, yellow Saxem, green Saxem, and now we have ice blue – or "Glacier Blue," according to Swiss HQ. I'm calling it faux paraiba tourmaline.
A quick glance suffices to realize that many of the most prestigious models from Patek fausse breitling montres Philippe, IWC and Vacheron Constantin in the 1970s bore the sigma symbol – the Nautilus and the Ellipse d’Or from Patek Phillippe, the Ingenieur from IWC, and the 222 from Vacheron Constantin 222 (the square model). Interestingly, as with the Rolex watches, not all of these had solid gold cases; in many instances, a stainless steel watch benefited from hands and indexes in full gold.The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak RD#2 was one of the standout watches from SIHH 2018 (despite being a concept watch and not something available for sale...yet). But during his conversation with award-winning chef Daniel Humm, AP CEO François-Henry Bennahmias revealed that when they first decided to make an ultra-thin Royal Oak perpetual calendar many of the manufacture's older watchmakers thought it was pure folly and not worth even trying. I, for one, am glad they gave it a shot.Caliber: UN-118, In-house designed movement Silicon technologyFunctions: Hours, minutes, small seconds, date, power-reserve indicatorDiameter: 11.5 lignesPower Reserve: 60 hoursWinding: AutomaticFrequency: 4 Hz (28,800 vph)Jewels: 50Chronometer Certified: Yes, COSCThe lecture is on Monday, January 10, from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern Time (U.S. and Canada) via Zoom Webinar. This lecture will begin at 10AM ET (GMT -5) to accommodate local time in Switzerland (GMT +1). Webinar registration is required. All HSNY lectures are free and open to the public, and all are recorded. Recorded lectures are made available to HSNY members immediately, and the general public with a two-month delay.HODINKEE is a sponsor of the Horological Society of New York.Here's how it worked: 600 to 700 people emailed Max since the original M.A.D.1 came out. Those people got first crack at the watch. Between 500 and 600 confirmed the purchase. Then the rest of the watches, about 500 examples, were dedicated to the raffle. Roughly 35,000 people signed up; after the list was cleared of duplicates and bots, it ended up being about 24,000 people. That means that the odds of getting selected in the raffle were about 1 in 48. Not amazing.We started our tour with the assembly of Grand Seiko's Spring Drive and quartz watches. While we weren't able to enter the clean room or see much of the manufacturing up close, Grand Seiko does show live video feeds of their watchmakers and assembly team at work, which you can see below.
It's also the nature of luxury purchasing nowadays to be driven by branding rather than by quality as such, which increasingly exists only to the extent that it has to; the tendency is for luxury goods to be reduced to the absolute minimum of quality necessary to maintain brand identity. This is in contrast, of course, to a brand being elevated because of the quality of its products.To put it simply, all "Lumen" indicates at A. Lange & Söhne is the use of a semi-transparent dial developed by Lange that allows the luminous jumping numeral displays to be fully visible at all hours. It's cool. It's fun. Most importantly, it's an outside-the-box approach for one of the industry's biggest players. It's hard to imagine many other high-end replica iwc uhren brands doing something like this.Robin Swithinbank is an independent journalist, who has written for HODINKEE about his life in Swatches, among other things. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times International, Financial Times, GQ, and Robb Report. He is also Harrods' Contributing Watch Editor.Photos by Andrea Salerno JácomeBrand: RolexModel: DeepseaReference Number: 136660Diameter: 44mmThickness: Case Material: Stainless steel and RLX Titanium casebackDial Color: Black or gradientIndexes: AppliedLume: YesWater Resistance: 3,900mStrap/Bracelet: BraceletThe standout feature of this limited edition, without a doubt, is the unique circular date ring and small seconds subdial at the dial's center, as well as its color palette directly inspired by the waters of the Wadden Sea. Of course, the Dat Watt Limited Edition is equipped with fitting dive-ready specs, including 300 meters of water resistance. The Oris 743 automatic caliber lies within a power reserve of 38 hours, and each model features a caseback engraved with its unique serial number.
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