Brand: OmegaModel: Seamaster Diver 300M Nekton EditionReference Number: 210.32.42.20.01.002 (on rubber) and 210.30.42.20.01.002 (on steel bracelet)Diameter: 42mmThickness: 13.5mmCase Material: link Stainless steel, with a grade-5 titanium bezelDial link Color: BlackIndexes: Applied markersLume: YesWater Resistance: 300mStrap/Bracelet: Rubber strap or stainless link steel bracelet
For more, check out link A Week On The Wrist With The Citizen 0100, look at the Girard-Perregaux quartz link caliber 350 (the first quartz watch ever with the now-standard 32,768Hz frequency), and Cara Barrett's look at collecting Swiss first-gen quartz Beta 21 movement watches (including Patek link Philippe).
All this comes in a new 43mm sandblasted link titanium case with the Concepts link collection's first interchangeable strap system. And while it's a massive 17.4mm size, you still have the ergonomics that make the Concept both visually compelling and what AP calls "surprisingly link wearable," albeit obviously very much a statement piece with a statement price of CHF 150,000. Only 150 pieces will be made each year.
The link hat's perfectly ugly and perfectly designed at the same link time. It was link a way to remind myself where I came from when I was in New York. During the pandemic, Kirkland found his way back, moving home to St. Louis.
Yet here we are, with well over 100 photos link from five days. It might be a slog for some, I know, but it's an experience unlike any other and one that few people will ever get to have. My job, as I see it, was to bring that experience (the good and the bad) to those link of you who might not be link fortunate enough to do it yourself. For others, maybe this story will inspire a you to put life on hold for a week and, if you're lucky, take to the roads of Italy.
The biggest watch story of the link year came this link past week, with the announcement of the MoonSwatch – a collaboration link between Swiss watch industry behemoths Swatch and Omega. Eleven watches make up the collection at launch, which will go on sale at certain Swatch boutiques later today. Are you in line to snag one for yourself? Let us know in the comments!
Where the Patek link and the Lange measure 41 and 41.5mm, respectively, the Traditionnelle Perpetual Calendar Chronograph is 43mm wide and the dial design makes great use of the real estate with a lovely layout that offers strong legibility for the link variety of functions. The mixed finishing for link the subdials looks excellent next to white gold hands and markers and a surrounding tachymeter scale.
I love link a prototype. I grew up obsessed with concept cars (shout out to the '97 Pontiac Rageous), and I love the idea of a brand – especially a link smaller brand – showing something that is perhaps more of a dream or link a work in progress rather than a final commercial product. It puts a flag in the ground, and for Konstantin Chaykin, in 2024, I can't imagine a better move than to share something as wild and experimental as the ThinKing, even if only for publicity.
Now for the Chrono Felix Perpetual. In my eyes, this is the link best watch yet from the brand. Previous criticism of Habring² offerings often centered around case size and thickness, this was first addressed in 2014 with the time-only Felix and culminates here in a 38.5mm x 13mm perpetual calendar chronograph. Those stats should jump off the page especially considering the last link Habring² complication at this level, the Perpetual-Doppel, clocked in at link 43mm x 12mm.
In the book's introduction, by AP Heritage link and Museum Director Sebastian link Vivas, and AP Historian Michael Friedman, they note: "During the late 19th and early-mid 20th century, Audemars Piguet was an Etablisseur, producing watches in collaboration with a variety of small workshops in the Vallee de Joux, conducting an link orchestra of closely networked and highly talented craftsmen. Production volumes were very small for much of the history, rarely more than a few hundred watches made per year."