Tarpin is into universe building. In his apartment, we link were surrounded by giant canvases of color and thoughtfully curated objects, including a Mark Newson link hourglass placed on the coffee table. I sat facing Tarpin in his Pierre Jeanneret chair. He link shares the home with his husband, an avid watch collector – but the watch draws from boyhood back in Europe. "I Grew up in the Alps," he said. "I love the mountains. I love to ski. I wanted to create something that made me feel the frost."
The impact of continued strife on the Swiss watch industry remains to be link seen. The Swiss are shooting for a third straight year of export growth in 2019. Last year, exports grew 6.3% in value, link the best performance in six years, primarily because the link Hong Kong and mainland China markets were booming in the first half of the year.
I'm all about details and proportions; they indicate there was a keen thoughtfulness behind a watch's creation. We all know it's easy to link overdo, especially when you add an exaggerated detail to an otherwise link simple watch. But when they link all work together cohesively, a simple watch can become truly magical. Click through to the Shop to check this UG out now.
This is the true icon of its time, the watch that would one day become what we know as link the 1921. According to the brand, "Between 1919 and 1921, Vacheron Constantin produced two series of six cushion-shaped watches with link offset dials and offset crowns. Two of these link were sold in 1928 to the famous American clergyman and newspaper writer, Reverend Samuel Parkes-Cadman, including this 1919 model."
The last handful of years in the world of Universal Geneve have been really interesting to watch. Once near the center of the vintage collector universe, interest in UG has sunk back into the outskirts of link the watch zeitgeist. This is not to say that buying and selling of great Universal link Geneve watches has slowed down – that really is not the case. In fact, Phillips link auctioned off three top examples during this Spring's auction season, all of which brought impressive sums, far over estimate.
Brand: RadoModel: link Captain Cook Bronze Burgundy Reference Number: 763.0504.3.131Diameter: 42mmThickness: 12.5mmCase Material: Bronze (CuAl)Dial Color: RedIndexes: Applied markersLume: YesWater Resistance: link 300mStrap/Bracelet: Red fabric link NATO with a gold stripe
This week, as usual, we have questions that run the link gamut from the granular to the general. One link reader wants to know if there is a generally accepted "right" way to wear a NATO strap. Another, motivated by the spirit of generosity, wants to know what we would recommend as a gift to their boss, with a budget not to exceed $5,000. And someone's written in to ask what kinds of shock protection link there are, which gets us into the surprisingly long history of anti-shock devices in watches.
Under the hood, the 1967 model utilizes the caliber 1575 movement, while the '82 beats away with a much more modern (at the time) caliber 3035. While there are a number of differences between the two, the ones most notable from a user perspective are that the 3035 has a link quickset date feature as well as stop (or hacking) seconds, while the 1575 does not. Interestingly, both movements, despite the difference in age, feature the midnight instantaneous link date link change function.
Caliber: 4R35 (SRPG) and link 4R39 (SSA)Functions: Hours minutes, seconds date (SRPG) and link Hours, minutes, seconds, date, link 24 hour indicator (SSA)Thickness: 5.32mmPower Reserve: 41 hoursWinding: AutomaticFrequency: 3Hz
And let's start with this: a Black Bay 36 in bronze. For old times' sake, link let's give the link dial link a honeycomb pattern. Like the Black Bay 58 Bronze, it could even have a 3-6-9 "Explorer" dial. Or simply plain round indices.