Visiting David Thompson, The Captain Who Fell In Love With Ship's Clocks
You have to make sure your business is profitable, because if it's not profitable, there's no future. We also have to be able to communicate and find customers for our watches. Some companies put out a lot of advertisements and use brand ambassadors. nep luxe tassen There are many ways to work, but I have only done in-person exhibitions by myself. Those have been my personal marketing. My production is small, so there hasn't been a need for big advertisements to find those handful of customers.Last week, we touched on value through two-tone case and bracelet metal as compared to stainless steel or solid gold options. This week, we continue the value theme with a small collection of relatively lower price-point options of iconic vintage references or models. Collectors have come to refer to these alternatives as "Poor Man's (insert more well-known watch here)."Many collectors will know Hess by his Instagram moniker, @manhattanrollie – especially in the vintage watch community, where he's been a fixture for years. He's the organizer of RollieFest, a massive get-together that draws collectors from around the world. Hess is also a GPHG academy member.To mark its 140th anniversary, Breitling is introducing the caliber B19 in three limited edition models: the Premier, Navitimer, and Chronomat. Besides the shared movement, all three watches feature an 18K red gold case (typically 5N gold), are limited to 140 pieces, and have an MSRP of $59,000. On all three limited editions, the B19 is visible through a sapphire caseback.
Horological Education classes will be offered in Chicago over the weekend of February 11, at Oak billig omega ure & Oscar's beautiful new offices. The next weekend, that of February 18, HSNY will head east to Philadelphia, where it will hold classes at Pipeline Workspaces in Center City.It’s not just sales in Greater China that are down. Coronavirus restrictions on travel from Greater China are hurting luxury-watch sales in top tourist destinations around the globe. An estimated 150 million Chinese tourists travel internationally every year; they account for an estimated 40% of luxury goods purchased in the travel retail category.Speaking of appeal, it's hard to argue with the specs. At 41.5mm wide and 11.6mm thick for the Modello Uno Diver and GMT and a smaller 38mm by 11.6mm for the Modello Due, Unimatic covers a good range of sizes for different tastes. The movements are unremarkable but reliable ETA and Sellita choices. But the price is the real kicker. At $1,180 and $900, respectively, the watches are only a $65 upcharge from steel to titanium. To me, that's just nutty.While there weren't a ton of new releases, there was enough to get excited about as the industry gears up for a fall season of releases, auctions, and more. Here's a rundown of some of the highlights I saw in Geneva. We'll have more on all these in the next few weeks.
For this special piece, JS went with a custom Unitas movement with a three-quarter bridge featuring Geneva stripes, and special engravings on the mainplate and swan neck regulator, and picked a guilloché dial for the front of the watch. Another first for the team, who intend to broaden their offerings despite the company's small size.“Maybe at 70, I finally found what I wanted to do when I grow up,” Thompson told me. “I don’t pretend to be any kind of expert at repairing Chelsea clocks, though I do it all the time,” he says, with typical Midwestern modesty. And so, despite lacking formal horology training, and at an age orologi replica breitling when most people will take their gold watch and pension and shuffle off to their garden, David Thompson has found another career, one that ties his two loves – the water and timekeeping.There is no chronograph more famous than the Daytona, the original hard-to-get steel Rolex sports watch. Its legacy and its connections to the world of automotive sports are legendary, and in the field of endurance racing it's practically peerless. There are some big F1 and IndyCar races coming up this month, and LeMans, itself, in June. Having a watch like this one on your wrist while taking in the action would be most fitting.Overall, these watches are absolute winners. I still can't tell if the sheer surprise is coloring my view, but I love what Seiko has done here. It feels like the brand really understands what enthusiasts are looking for in a watch like this. And while I doubt we ever thought we would get – effectively – an SKX GMT, that's exactly what these feel like. And boy does it feel good.Caliber: LV 277 (base El Primero)Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds, date, chronographPower Reserve: 50 hoursWinding: AutomaticFrequency: 5 Hz / 36,000 vphJewels: 31Chronometer Certified: N/AAdditional Details: 22ct pink gold rotorThat's really all there is to it – genuine rarity and demand make auction results and watch valuations go boom. We've seen it time and time again, and the 5650G hit some pretty crazy results this year. So it'll be interesting to see how the pair of examples up for grabs over the next week in Geneva do.
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