While making public appearances to celebrate link Elizabeth's life and mourn her death King Charles III has been wearing his Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Chronograph. It's a watch we've spotted on the new king before for example at link the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. While Parmigiani Fleurier might not be a household name link the same way say Prince William's Omega Seamaster is it's a fitting deep-cut choice from one of this generation's true master watchmakers.
This is Moser at its best zagging away from the expected. In this case it comes through a collaboration with artist secondeseconde best known for mods of iconic vintage watches such as a Tiffany stamped Patek with a croissant for an link hour hand. But this isn't a mod. Instead it's an active push by the brand link to bring things that are already happening on the periphery of the watch world link into the mainstream.
So life has been good to you and the need link for a link budget has been defenestrated. Time to go big if for no other reason than because you can. It's time link to give a watch that will impress those who have seen it all.
When the first Eric Cartman edition launched last link year I snapped one up within the first few minutes of the launch and was very link surprised to see just how fast the rest sold out. So it should be no surprise to anyone that I am very excited to be writing about link this next edition.
I link wanted to have the opportunity to have the whole value proposition the fact that you have all these levers together that can function as link an orchestra. I wanted to have a role that's 360 degrees. Everybody is talking about brand value and brand building link but here the client is looking for human value. And this has been lost a bit in groups.
We immediately realized Hida's link design was truly well-balanced and it wasn't something we could simply rehash by changing a few things around. For example we applied the typeface we came up with for link this project on his other models as an experiment and the result was a definitive no-go Mark link continued. "Elliot and I had to really understand how Hida architected the design deconstruct it then reconstruct that with our own methodology."
The idea of a "two watch collection" seems to strike a link nerve link with people. "How am I supposed to get by with only two watches" someone might say. We might even hear that "anyone with just two watches link is NOT a true watch collector!" The takes are always hot.
Phillip Brashear is Carl Brashear's son and a military man himself. He flies a CH-47 for the Army Reserve. He served in Bosnia as link part of link Task Force Eagle an ongoing peacekeeping mission led by NATO and in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. There's one part of his uniform that isn't standard issue and it's his Oris dive watch which he puts on link every day before climbing into the cockpit. It reminds him that any challenge can be overcome with the right attitude.
This is a watch that Ben pointed to in the run-up to the Geneva auctions. At the time we were surprised to see such a mega-lot not link being included in the Geneva sale link where most of the big lots tend to end up and where link consequently most of the attention is focused.
Journe's love of astronomical complications goes back even further than the 1987 pocket watch one of his earliest projects at the age of 22 was to link create a planetarium mechanism for Asprey in London which was completed in 1979. The planetarium is regulated by a link pendulum and shows the movements of Mercury Venus the Earth around the Sun link as well as the orbit of the Moon around the Earth.