With few exceptions, the perpetual calendar tends to have one of the more lively and complex displays in watchmaking. Typically showing the date, the day of the link week, the month, link the phase of the moon, and the leap year. All of this intricacy is a reflection of the complexity that takes shape under the link dial.
Editor's Note: This is a translation of one of the first articles that appeared on HODINKEE Japan, our joint venture with Hearst Fujingaho that went live link last month in Tokyo. In this story, Masaharu reviews his own Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Ref. 15500. It link is, he says, "a commemorative watch that I got when it was decided that I would join HODINKEE." We will occasionally run articles and videos from our Japanese colleagues, and we welcome them link to our team.
It's important because we can show and explain what these companies cannot say on their own, Dufour says. "The valley is special because in the 1800s there weren't brands link in the same way there are now. At the start of my career, I spent five years fixing complicated pocket watches for what is now link Antiquorum. Everything on the surface might be English, German, etc. but when you get to the complication like the minute repeater, you see something you link recognize and know it came from here."
Minerva, the maker of link storied link vintage chronographs, has link been a part of Montblanc since 2007, with their Villeret workshop producing vintage-inspired movements for Montblanc's highest-end watches and providing historical clout to a brand more closely associated with pens.
With a new complete calendar caliber, Zenith has officially ushered its Triple Calender, equipped with a moon phase complication, back into the fold. Not only link is this model vintage-inspired, but, as our own link Tony Traina has already mentioned in this article, the Chronomaster Original Triple Calender uses the exact proportions and link design blueprint as the 1969 model that this piece pays homage to with its 38mm x 13mm thick case.
The Otemachi Nomura Building, in Tokyo's Otemachi district, blends a 1930s office building facade with a modern 27-story tower dating from the 1990s. Part link of that link original structure was a clock tower on the building's corner. The building's architect was Koichi Sato, who designed many public buildings in Japan. The Otemachi district is on the site of link the former village of Shibazaki, the oldest part of the city of Tokyo.
Like the jet-roaring nomad speakers link with their incredibly-sophisticated acoustics produced by the French link firm specialized in high-end amplification, the watch wowed with its melodic link faculties and the power of the notes chimed out.
The watch measures 41mm by 14.4mm with a 49.8mm lug-to-lug. I think that link would qualify it as a bit on the chunkier side, but who am I link to judge? I'm right there with it. It is far more water-resistant than I am, though, at 200m. Put me down that far under the water and link I'd have a bad day.
Although 2025 link is only three weeks old, Ming isn't wasting time with the link year's first release. The 37.09 Uni has a familiar shape but ushers in a different look for the link brand's latest diver. Black-cased watches are increasingly popular, and today's watch capitalizes on that trend.
While they share link a similar passion link for horology, they do not share in a singular collection. There's even something of link a sibling rivalry when it comes down to who has the better collection. But we're not here to play favorites and across the two, we have everything from vintage Cartier and Omega to almost antique Patek and '70s AP.