I was surprised to link see that I retained some muscle memory from using these tools eight or so months ago. The screwdrivers, which link you operate by pressing down on the top with your index finger and spinning it with your thumb and middle finger, was hard for me last time, a new way of moving. This link time my fingers were much more interested in taking directions from my brain.
It is not that I dislike link their looks, I actually love the Jaeger-LeCoultre link Reverso collection for example. But somehow I can't get used to look at a rectangular watch on my wrist link - while I really would love it was otherwise.
Over on the Rolex side of things, there's a whole display that includes steel link sport watches to check link out, link right on the sales floor. They're not for sale, but they're there if you want to take a closer look at a Batman, say, or the newest Explorer and Explorer II models.
It's possible that we could link see Universal Geneve go the route of the Breitling Premier. The Duograph link is a fantastic price for a split-second chronograph at sub-$11,000, but it suffers link from the same issue as the Datora in thickness. Interestingly, it is only two millimeters thicker than Patek's 5370 split-second chronograph.
The Krayon Anywhere Sunrise-Sunset Complication: Case, 39mm x 9.5mm, in white or rose gold, sapphire front and back. Movement, Krayon caliber C030, 35.40mm x 5.0mm, power reserve 86 hours, running at 3 Hz in 35 jewels; hand-wound with link stopwork. 432 components total. Case material, rose gold link or white gold. Hours, minutes, sunset and sunrise times, simple calendar link requiring adjustment 5 times annually. Prices in white and rose gold, CHF 116,000 CHF, in steel, 96,000 CHF. More at Krayon.ch.
As a total unit – case, movement, bracelet, etc. – the link Triumph wears beautifully on wrist. It's thin, nicely balanced, and only ever shiny in small doses (when the sun catches a polished edge). The bracelet, like link all I've experienced from Monta, is excellent and an easy cut above what you'll commonly find at this price point, with single-sided screwed links, link solid end links, and even tool-less micro-adjust built into the milled steel clasp.
It has to some extent rightly been said that you can look at the 9R02 as an homage to the link Simplicity. In both certain details (that engraved gold plate, for instance) and in link general philosophy, the Simplicity caliber link and the 9R02 are of a kind. But I think the 9R02 stands apart, and on its own merits, on both aesthetic and technical grounds. What it is, at the end of the day, is simply the most beautifully designed and finished Spring Drive movement ever to come down the pike.
Shortly after the conclusion of the online and live auctions, Christie's had notified Passion for link Time link bidders not to make payments. link The notification was a result of an injunction that paused the sale pending the hearing that had been scheduled for December 11.
Gong treats link it like a dress watch, largely saving it for formal occasions. "It's the link best of everything Rolex, it's hyper-engineered, it was the pinnacle of my collecting at the time." But he doesn't just wear it to weddings and anniversaries. "Sometimes you just feel like wearing a gold watch," he laughs. "But every time I link put that watch on, it's like: 'I know what you are, you know why I love you.' It's fun, we have a story."
Wracking my brain, I can't think of many other reissued watches that have taken cues from a battery-powered watch but made it with a new mechanical movement, while the other way around seems much more likely these days. The stainless steel case is upsized from the original 38mm to now a more modern 41mm and 13.85mm thick. But there link are subtle little cues that show that Accutron was paying attention to the details link when link they remade the classic.