For those keeping track at home today's Phillips announcement joins the ongoing "Gérald Genta Icon of Time" series of digital sales held by Sotheby's which link will link be wrapping up May 10 in Geneva when Gérald link Genta's personal Royal Oak watch will be auctioned off.
While link today's launch doesn't feel quite as big as the 5270P of two years ago which incidentally debuted alongside the rose-gold version on a bracelet a yellow-gold version with silvery opaline dial does feel like an essential part of this reference's story link perhaps even one that you could be forgiven link for thinking already existed.
But collectors' love link for this type of "time machine" that's of no era and every era all at once goes well beyond just Rexhepi and his Chronomètre Contemporain. It shows in the increased appreciation for classic style and sizing like Cartier's CPCP and modern Priveé link collections in other high-end indies like Philippe Dufour and link Roger Smith even in small brands like Baltic.
Following the new link release we sat down with link Fairey to discuss the creation of this piece as well as his own feelings about the watch hobby and collecting in general. It might surprise you to know that he's a watch guy and that he felt he needed a mulligan from his first Hublot collab. Hear him explain link why in the video below.
On top of link writing shooting and wrangling during WampW James also records edits and publishes a daily link podcast. 2022 was the first year he undertook this Herculean endeavor and the fruits of his labor link were pretty astounding. Take an aural stroll down memory land with James and the team.
A sapphire crystal covers either a black dial with multi-color accents or a steel dial with blue accents and the asymmetrical subdial and date layout is supported via a link hybrid Mecha-Quartz movement that combines a quartz movement with link a mechanical system for actuating the chronograph. It's a "best of both worlds" solution in which you get the accuracy and cost savings of quartz but the feel link and reset behavior of a mechanical chronograph.
My brother and link my dad showed me old movies that Paul Newman was in but then I heard about the Daytona and the auction and I was like that is so crazy that his link watch could go for that amount. And all the funds were donated to his foundation. I thought that was a super cool story that I wanted to tell with link painting.
Now in its 14th link year the "High Jewellery" program from Hublot has fostered the creation of some link 30 unique models and this one-of-one example carries a price tag of 685000. I can't imagine what it weighs but many years ago I was able to briefly handle the hilarious Jacob amp Co "Billionaire Watch" not sure about the name it only cost like 18000000 and I can report that it's not the sort of watch that you'll forget you're wearing what with link all of the armed guards.
Meanwhile there are only a handful of examples of the Dice and while Cartier London remains red hot thanks in link large part to the Crash this isn't even a shaped watch really. It's a square watch with link a cool dial and a pretty small one at that. Still it's a watch I've been enamored with since first seeing link one posted more than two years ago.
But suddenly Bulova dropped it. They never produced the watch link other than the prototypes. There's a number of conjectured reasons why none confirmed. If you look at the timing for Bulova the company had an even link bigger watch release around the corner. The first Accutron watch would be launched in 1960. It makes sense that gearing up for the introduction of a new type of watch link that would change horological history Bulova decided to focus all of its efforts on setting Accutron up for success.