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Point/Counterpoint: Chanel's New J-12 Caliber 12.1 Is Better In White - Or Maybe In Black
Two of our most opinionated editors talk it out.
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Two of our most opinionated editors talk it out.
Two Broke Watch Snobs
The Tudor Black Bay diver in 41mm has just been updated with a METAS certified Master Chronometer movement at Watches & Wonders 2023.
Deployant
NOMOS makes watches gift suggestions for,the coming Easter. these classic looking watches feature brightly coloured dials.
Worn & Wound
Seiko ventures into new (and much requested) territory this week with the release of a new collection of GMT divers within their Prospex family. Using their modern 6159 design language seen in watches like the SPB187 with MM200 roots, the new watches strike a fine balance between their roots, and a strong contemporary vision for the range. Seiko has proven quite adept at this in recent years with their restructuring of their dive watch collections, but these latest examples bring something new to the table: a GMT complication within a new 3 day automatic movement, the 6R54. The new Prospex GMT diver range welcomes two new references in the SPB381 and 383, and in true Seiko fashion, a single limited edition in the SPB385. Each welcomes the new 6R35 within a steel 42mm case that measures 12.8mm in thickness, and should wear quite similarly to this SPB187 we went hands-on with right here. The angular case gets the distinctive deep chamfer along the lug which has a relatively short overhang to make for a perfectly manageable experience on the wrist. These watches mark the first time a mechanical GMT movement has made its way into the Prospex dive watch, as the GMT diver is something of a niche genre, and may, to some extent, excuse the fact that this is a caller style GMT execution. The GMT hand can be set independently in one-hour increments, making it a better option for those who work with or communicate with other time zones more than for those who travel between them fr...
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Your Carlo Crocco cosplay just leveled up.
Revolution
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There's a reason the El Primero movement is so good, and this watch proves that it's still getting better.
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We're looking at the latest chronograph of the stars.
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GS heads gather around, there's a new hot (small) watch in town.
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So turn it up!
Revolution
For a deep dive into Grand Seiko’s evolution and philosophy, click here.
Revolution
Deployant
Citizen releases a new model to their The Citizen Mechanical Cal. 0200 lineup with a model inspired by Japanese armour. Here is the Ref. NC0206-18E.
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One watch to rule them all.
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It's a marathon, not a sprint, and Zenith just won.
Quill & Pad
Martin Green still vividly remembers admiring the Minimatik in the comfort of the Nomos booth at Baselworld 2015. Other watches were presented to him during this appointment, but he kept reaching for the Minimatik. Now he has bought one for himself, and here Martin explains why.
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A silver lining in more ways than one.
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New dials on top; new movements underneath.
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It took 50+ years, but Zenith is finally giving the people exactly what they want.
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Let’s rewind a little, back to 2019. Zenith was celebrating the 50th anniversary of the El Primero and presented a box of 3 watches limited to 50 sets. Included in the set was the highly sought after A386 re-edition in steel. The only way to get your hands on this piece was to buy the box set, which came with a fourth slot for a forth-coming “1/1000th of a second” chronograph, to be released at a later time. Yes there were other A386 anniversary editions that can be had separately, but they came in precious metal. What people wanted was the steel A386. Zenith kept teasing the market with various versions of it, but not the exact iconic version that was released in 1969, as one of the first to house this ground-breaking chronograph movement. Then in 2020, the Manufacture edition dropped, with a prototype dial that was found in a little box up in the attic where Charles Vermot hid the tools, parts, and plans to build the El Primero back in 1975. The idea was that you could only purchase the Manufacture edition when you visit the Zenith Manufacture. Sort of like a gift shop purchase at the end of the tour. It would be extremely difficult to come by as you’d have to have made the trip to Switzerland to pick one up. Look, we gotta give it up to the product designers and planners. hats off to Romain Marietta, who probably has one of the best jobs in the industry. This was a superb idea. This guaranteed exclusivity and collectability. But then we all knew what happene...
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With this mighty movement (which powers the Aquis Date), Oris has made simplicity a virtue.
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Classicists will be into the fluted dial. But heading into summer, you can't beat the palm frond.
Quill & Pad
The Nomos Metro Neomatik 41 Update was introduced at Watches & Wonders 2021. As Nomos enthusiasts might conclude from the name, it sees the brand’s latest interesting date complication, first seen in 2018, introduced into the progressive Metro line.
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This is the story of the final watch – or, truthfully, pair of watches – that GaryG happened upon at a Sotheby’s auction in late 2017 and felt that he just had to have: two 1970s prototype pieces made by Jaeger-LeCoultre. But why "unsalable"?
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When in-house hits a little closer to home.
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An Oris of a different color, you might say.
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A Doppelchronograph by any other name.
Revolution
The new Carrera models get subtle upgrades with an emphasis on the watch’s motorsport heritage.
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Fifty years after it went to the Moon, the engine inside the Apollo Moonwatches is once again powering a Speedmaster.
Revolution
Recreating the ultimate military pilot’s watch for today’s urban fly boy.
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