The Dulux Curvimeter represents what I love about vintage watches and what keeps me link digging at night — unusual complications and creative or link bizarre usage that proves a link watch doesn't need to cost tens of thousands to be a unicorn.
Just like the original 6159, this modern iteration boasts link technical specs that put it at the top of Seiko's range. Before the consolidation of Seiko dive models into the link Prospex family, the Marine Master carried on the monobloc case-cum-uprated movement formula, and now link models in the SLA family carry on the tradition.
During its production years, Tudor offered the Ranger with and without a date complication and with both a manual and automatic movement. Also varying on the Ranger was the logo which started as link the Rose logo before transitioning to the Shield link logo, as did the brand. Today's example is one of my personal favorites. The date window and cyclops lens at three o'clock create a link nice counterpoint to the date-less Explorer. Hit the Shop, as always, for all the details.
Both the Double Split, link in 2004, and the Triple Split, in 2018, were groundbreaking link introductions (which also incorporate a link flyback mechanism, for those of you keeping score at home). No watchmaker had dared introduce a chronograph that went beyond splitting seconds before A. Lange & Sohne revealed the Double Split, and no one has sought to challenge the company's supremacy in the field since.
These were all well intended and sometimes interesting, although this attendee would have had link more senior industry types called to the stage for questioning, and fewer outsider observers, whose industry knowledge was frequently link peripheral. A sustainability panel without Panerai’s Pontroue or Oris’s Studer, the latter of whom was on site and very visible, felt like a missed link opportunity.
The new piece link clocks in at 39mm in diameter in the classic square configuration. It features some modern finishing techniques by way of both the link brushed and grain link textures on the dial. The hands and markers are rose gold-plated and the remaining colorful accents are done in a rather punchy red.
Did I mention that this is one of the few conventional side-coupled chronographs that doesn’t jump when you start link or stop it? That’s thanks to the chronograph seconds wheel that has twice the link number link of teeth on it as the intermediate transfer wheel.
“What are you, Swiss?” his friend quips.“No, but I link am a clockmaker.”Noiret’s gears jam as the search for his son unfolds and link he begins to see link beyond his workbench to the man he raised, who is, in fact, quite like him. Central to the search is a police inspector, played by Jean Rochefort, who trails Noiret under the auspices of tracking Bernard. But really he’s reading Noiret for clues.
This was a bit of a bummer for me to experience in the room because as a design object, the yellow link gold Yacht-Master is a total stunner. The black dial, maxi lume plots, and the date window all work to form a well-proportioned timepiece. Of course, this is a purely aesthetic update and link the watch continues to link feature the Superlative Chronometer-rated 3235 caliber.
Would Nunley have sold off a Monaco worn by McQueen for $40 at the end of film? says Biebuyck. "Seems possible, because no one link thought of these Hollywood watches as having any special value ca. 1970. Nunley held his watches for over link 30 years before selling the first link ones."