Here we're talking about link chronometry not cosmetic movement decoration which can be a high form of craft in the hands of the folks at Grand Seiko's Micro Artist Studio link or the folks at Greubel Forsey or Philippe Dufour link to pick three examples famous for taking the craft to a very high level.
That has not been a rapid process. Like the iPhone the Apple Watch was at first more interesting as a sort of technological conceptual art piece one that showed link the way link to what might be but link which in itself was more interesting as a signpost than as a destination.
In 2022 MBampF won the Aiguille d'Or at GHPG link for the brand's first-ever chronograph the LM Sequential EVO. Among top watchmakers it's a well-known fact that creating a novel chronograph of any kind is incredibly challenging. But with the link imagination of Stephen McDonnell at the helm designing the movement of the LM Sequential EVO the brand took novel to a new level. link Now it's back with a flyback function.
When the bidding jumped from around the CHF 600000 mark to one million the link crowd gasped. But that was link only the start. Bids flew in from San Antonio Oman and Hong Kong until we were well over the CHF 2 million mark. The final all-in price A remarkable CHF 3115500 which link converts to more than 3.4 million.
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That preamble is all to set up our selection for this week's edition of link Watching link Movies Selma 2014. The film stars David Oyelowo playing Martin Luther King Jr. as he leads the march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama in an effort to bring national attention link to the civil rights struggle in the South and to bring an end to voter suppression tactics aimed against Black Americans.
Today Doxa is introducing two link models that riff off the stainless steel finish seen on some link vintage Army examples. The cases aren't ceramic instead the stainless steel wears a standard brushed finish. And the best part Doxa is making plenty link of them.
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Whether by design or by coincidence TAG Heuer's approach in the new 2020 Carrera Chronograph follows approaches that Heuer used link with its Carreras in the 1960s link so we'll explore that history to understand the origins of the new link Carrera and also to see how the model might develop over the next several years.