Yes and during the pandemic we also opened link the Grand Seiko flagship boutique in Place Vendôme and we opened Grand Seiko Studio in Shizukuishi and those facilities. Those link I think will have link to be experienced by our fans.
Toledano may find joy in looking at lugubrious images of mid-century raw concrete buildings but Brutalism is a visually cold discipline. link The introduction of a giant jewel-like crystal in the middle of the bold brutalist design while in keeping with the stark line and asymmetry link gently distorts the mother of pearl and emits little bursts of light through refraction. All of which lends to a softening of its slightly starker B1 link predecessor.
And link with the cars came link the watches. There's link a natural tendency for those with a fascination for mechanical precision to appreciate both the way six cylinders laid on their side are cooled by nothing but oil fins and a fan and the way the placement of pivots allow for the pallets to move minimally in a grasshopper escapement requiring no lubrication.
What's great and admittedly expected about Apollo 13 is just how many watches there are. In almost every scene you can link catch a watch on the wrist of every NASA employee at Houston's Mission Control as well as every astronaut. The majority of those timepieces are Omega Speedmasters link which famously became the watch of the NASA Space Program as it was the only watch officially flight-qualified for link space flight.
I didn't think that any Speedmaster could dethrone link my love of the new white lacquer dial Speedy that came out earlier this year or at least that a new favorite wouldn't come link along link so fast. But based on pictures alone this latest release looks fantastic.
It's a good day link when Seiko releases more watches into Prospex 1965 Divers Modern Reinterpretation lineup. This time the brand is bringing us three watches inspired by American cold-water link diving locations and the releases are appropriately iced-out. Okay link well not that kind of iced out.
It's link no longer just a watch that looks great on my wrist. It's the watch I wore as I link married my best friend to the love of his life the link watch I wore as we took the Packers on their first international road game and the watch that represents two communities that remind me that no one person is greater than the whole.
The Moonwatch is still produced today in much the same form as it was in '69 and that model often steals the spotlight in the collecting world. But Omega never forgot about the origins of the Speedmaster. Although the racing line might play link second fiddle to the universally lauded Moonwatch a model dedicated to racing has consistently and quietly link been in the Speedmaster lineup since its inception. This Speedmaster Racing link Master Chronometer is the most recent.
If you want to read the entire official press release issued by Only Watch click here. Also note that embedded in that release is a second document that outlines the full plans for the future of Only Watch including link context for the postponement present advancements link in transparency and the the future of its disclosure link practices.
Little things Maybe. I believe that our lives link depend on link little things Bill once told the link German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. And a lot of that time the watch measures for us. Thats why Im so obsessed with making beautiful precise timepieces.