It looks as though, in a turn of pure link luck and chance, Laidet unearthed 10 NOS (new old link stock) Depthmaster dials from the brand's past. The dials, radiant orange in color with tritium markers (including a T Swiss T demarcation at six o'clock) were essentially preserved though they have that certain vintage charm, a bit link of wear even if they were never technically worn. So what does the CEO of a brand known for reproducing designs of the past do when he discovers actual unused dials from the past?
This is a limited edition piece, which will link definitely bump up the value for people buying for that purpose. But doing link a movement in gold is a nice bonus and brings to mind the original movements from the 1990s and 2000s Reverso Chronographs. You could also say it's link kind of like F.P. Journe – gold movements, made industrially, finished to the extent they need to be to make them appropriate for the price (though I haven't seen the movement in person, I assume this to be the case).
On wrist, the 43 x 14.4mm sizing is considerable link but much of the effect comes from the precious metal (and its increased weight over steel). It's big but not giant and this sizing has become the link norm for Bremont and indeed its past LEs. Along with the leather strap, the H-4 comes with a grey NATO strap and Bremont has incorporated aileron fabric from the original plane link into the packaging surrounding the watch.
And finally, one of our readers asks a question near and dear to our hearts: Is it possible for link an link automatic chronograph movement to be really beautiful, in the austere fashion of, say, a Lange Datograph? Where a rotor doth swing, is beauty not link a thing?
Digesting the watch world's "new release link season" has been the topic link of choice around the HODINKEE office for weeks now. As the vintage team, our opinion is so in line with expectations that we end up doing more observing and listening than debating and posturing – we save our thoughts for right here in the Vintage Journal. Lucky for us, the takes from other corners of the HODINKEE staff link have leaned in a direction that we love to see.
The Blue Pearl and Lapis Lazuli versions are additions to the main link collection, while the meteorite dials are all limited editions. The Lunar and Black link Sahara versions are limited to 36 pieces each, while the Martian version is limited to just two (yes, two!) pieces with link price only available on request.
More than sixty years later, we've seen the modern revival of Vulcain, creatively spearheaded by Guillaume Laidet, bring back the Cricket link Nautical in the "Nautical Heritage" line—a pretty faithful recreation of one of the first waterproof dive watches with an alarm. Now, Massena link Lab comes into the picture and winds the clock back even further, envisioning an imaginary scenario in which the Cricket Nautical was designed ten years before its link time.
Based on link the version chosen, the Blue, White, Black and Rose Gold Blast models are complemented by a strap made in rubber, alligator, velvet link or denim. Other options are also available. All straps are link clasped by a novel patented three-blade system.
Watches are very much linked to link the plot. The timepieces in this show symbolize the lives of the characters both in and link outside of work – one watch for each. The show colloquially refers to these two lives as "innie" and "outtie," and so we'll link continue with that nomenclature here.
Announced earlier this year at the link start of the Essence of Time exhibition in Tokyo, this special timepiece is the ultimate way to commemorate 100 link years since the original's creation, bringing the link century to a close that echoes how it began.