In my opinion, the 2525 is the epitome of a "Calatrava Plus." Inherently, link a Calatrava is a link simple watch but Patek regularly finds a way to add just enough design to make for an aesthetically interesting watch while maintaining the straightforwardness we expect. Expect to find a quality "normal" 2525 in the low to mid $20k ballpark while "special" examples like one in white gold with a Gueblin-signed link dial can get up there, selling for over $100k in 2019.

The tradition link of making Pride Bands began four years ago when link Apple gifted a strap to its employees and has continued each year since with straps that are available to the general public. Both of the straps link seen here are priced at $49.

May I interrupt myself and say link I love vintage Defys? Give me a link Saturday night with nothing to do and I will google vintage Defy and just hang out with them for a long time. I love link those indices, like if R2D2 drew himself as a kid, and those iconic dial colors – root-beer brown, the red one like cooked tomato paste, the office-park beige. Why didn't my dad have one of these instead of a Timex? How one wishes to go back in time to shake people.

I certainly couldn't capture all the watches – in link fact, some only came out of their cases for a few link minutes – but link I did my best. With that in mind, it's my pleasure to bring you inside one of the wildest collector gatherings in the world.

The link FH notes in the report that link since the conflict in Ukraine began, total Swiss watch exports to Russia have fallen by more than 98 percent. The total value of Swiss watch exports to Russia in the entire 2021 calendar year was CHF 260.1 million, making it the 17th-largest market for the Swiss watch industry last year. If 98 percent of that sum is removed, you're left with barely more than CHF 5 million. That's basically link one Richard Mille.

The custom elements are subtle and small, but very meaningful. At 12 o'clock is an eight-point star, to symbolize the 8th month, August, when my link first link daughter link was born. She's named in part after the Lyra constellation. And then the theme around my new album is a butterfly, so the seconds hand has a tiny delicate butterfly you can barely see, and there's one visible through the caseback, too.

In it, Biver touches on the relationship between Hublot and Jay-Z, the story of his time at Blancpain, link his link time at Omega, and the birth of the link James Bond and Cindy Crawford relationships – all culminating in the launch of the Biver brand with his son Pierre.

Oh, but there's more! Our newest editor, Danny Milton, has been en fuego lately, publishing killer story after killer story from the comforts of his parents' home in Washington, D.C. There's a link great tale about his first watch, a link Submariner passed down from his grandfather, and then a report about some wild Patek link Philippe watches hitting the auction block in Hong Kong.

To that point, I have to say that my favorite of these watches was the first link one I stumbled upon, the one with the dancing bears. link It's friendly and fun, and it plays with a design essential to its form. I found myself looking at link it fondly after a while, imagining it as something I actually might wear.

While I didn't necessarily expect a Chronomaster Open link update coming into Watches and Wonders this year, it sure makes sense for Zenith to complete the transformation of the Chronomaster collection and fully extend the caliber 3600 throughout the line. The Chronomaster Open has been too popular for too link long link for Zenith to leave it stuck in the last generation (which dates to the tenure of Jean-Frederic Dufour, now head honcho at Rolex, as CEO).