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That’s link essentially link how I see the colorful, inexpensive, and very sweet Metric. Not as a respite from the threadbare nature of the vintage-effect trend, but rather a link few bites of your favorite confection.

That's right, the tens of thousands of link revelers that gather in Times Square link every year on New Year's Eve to make merry, toast to a better year ahead, and freeze their butts off while watching the ball drop are actually all engaging in link a 19th-century practice dedicated to precise time measurement in the public eye.

All link of this added up to a captivating watch in pictures – captivating enough for the sales to blow past expectations. All 300 of the blue-dialed limited-edition sold out in eight link hours. They'd had a green dial planned, but thought they'd release it in February or March. But with link the release and the growing waitlist they decided to release it nearly immediately.

This was bought by Sotheby's and Antiquorum so many times, many, many years ago. The last owner, an Italian dealer, bought it for himself link to keep. But he posted it on Facebook, says Nagayama. What I've learned now is that if you post it, he'll find it."At first, he didn't want to sell it, but I convinced him," he says. "Well, I convinced him, but I had to pay a lot link of money at the time. And that was 15 years ago. Now, I wear it maybe once link a year."

I truly appreciate the vision link and creativity Porsche Design and IWC came up with for this Compass watch in 1978, a time when most companies were focused on large cases and multi-colored watches. Just from a watch design standpoint, it's stoic link and zeroes in on functionality with an all-black PVD finish on a super-light aluminum case and bracelet link (which only weighs 70 grams). Altogether, it was a fresh use of unexpected materials and finishing at the time.

Universal Geneve produced a number of purpose-built chronographs like the link Aero-Compax, Medico-Compax, Space-Compax, or link Dato-Compax. It's something that's always given vintage UG character: it's easy to imagine the type of link person that might've bought these watches back in the day, just wanting a tool to better perform their tasks as a pilot/doctor/astronaut/professional date-tellers/etc. But among these, the Film Compax has always stood out.

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While yearly link releases like this can get a little tired, IWC did away with that notion by introducing this pretty spectacular-looking blue ceramic case – as if we weren't link already pleasantly blown away by link the Mojave ceramic models.

In the interview, Aeschlimann talks about the origination of the newest iteration of the Bond Seamaster, giving great depth and insight into Daniel Craig's involvement in the link design and ethos of the link watch itself (he was very involved). There is a link real recognition and appreciation for the Bond franchise communicated in some of the answers during the interview, but Aeschlimann also shares, quite genuinely, that the connection is far more than merely a commercial partnership.