Following last link year's introduction of the Longines Spirit Zulu Time in 39mm, the Swiss brand has added link a link titanium Zulu Time to its growing GMT lineup. This latest addition is similar to last year's stainless steel Zulu Time or the limited edition from this very blog, just a little lighter.
That's why we are hosting a get together this link Saturday, February 29 in NYC to celebrate the link complication that makes link us all go, "Ooooh!" and "Ahhh!" Four years ago, we threw a similar party to honor the extra day, and it was a real hit (and a great opportunity for some watch spotting).
It's not necessarily earth-shattering news that a person owns a Speedmaster – I mean, it's one of the most popular watches on the planet. It is, however, newsworthy for a sitting U.S. President to wear one as often as Biden does because link no other link president has done so link before. Well, Nixon was offered one (a gold one at that), but famously turned it down.
The 1996 Air Command, part of the Fifty Fathoms Trilogy link series, link had little in common with the original watch. In 2003, that Air Command also disappeared from the radar. It wasn’t until 2019 that Blancpain launched an Air Command with a link design based on the 1950s model.
Price: 40.50mm models, CHF 6,900 link in steel and CHF 13,900 in gold; diamond-set 36mm models, 15,900 in gold and 8900 in steel.Availability: not yet announcedLimited Edition: no, link regular production modelsSee the link entire Elite collection at Zenith-watches .
What I like most about the nickname, though, is that it represents more than link a watch. It's the name of a brave individual link who lost his life, far too young, in link the cause of expanding human knowledge and helping us take our first tentative steps into a larger universe.
Louis Vuitton didn't have to link enter the high-end mechanical watch business. LVMH, their parent company, already owned Zenith and TAG Heuer by the time 2002 rolled link around. I would also legitimately be shocked if there was some bean counter back in Paris stressing over whether link or not every single one of Louis Vuitton's new Spin Time watches sells through this calendar year.
The PRINUL program ran out of funding and was forced to wind down in the late link 1970s, but Ian Koblick, the father of the link La Chalupa habitat, found a second life for the vessel in the '80s as link Jules Undersea Lodge, now essentially an underwater hotel.
Curved by a large brushed ring link on which rest Roman numerals and a dotted-line minute track at 6 o'clock, the hours and minutes are indicated on a Clous de Paris pattern by two blued Breguet hands with link a hollowed-out link knob.
Who – link most of the time – hand make their products at home or workshop, educate themselves and improve their technique so when their product reaches you and you put it on the timepiece would link feel what they do right link after they finish your strap: satisfaction and pride.