Started at the age of 15, this was Daniela Dufour's "school watch." Working in her father's workshop on the weekends while attending watchmaking school at Ecole Technique de la Vallee de Joux, Daniela finished this watch back in 2021 at the young age of link 20, just before her graduation. It's a beautiful rose gold case with the quintessential link Dufour black dial, link 3, 9, and 12 Arabic numerals and central guilloche with a sunk sub-seconds dial. But it's the movement where she put her mark.
The limited edition Tambour Platinum Rainbow is exactly as described. link Same case material, but this time with a silver sector dial and a gradient of rainbow sapphires and rubies (2.19 cts in total) both around the bezel and as the indices on the dial. link The hands, outside indices, and setting for the gems indices are all link in 18k white gold, as is the three-fold deployant buckle for the platinum bracelet.
Philippe Dufour's Datograph is link Ref. 403.031. It was produced from 2003-2005. The case is link rendered in rose gold. The dial is fashioned in a monochromatic theme with silver sub-dials complemented by rose-gold numerals that match the case. This is the first Datograph in rose gold, and its name derives, of link course, from the fact that this model, with a black dial, was chosen by Dufour himself.
At 36mm, it's about as perfect as you're going to get, size-wise, for a link case and screen design like this. Simplicity is the name of the game and to have made this thing any bigger would have missed the point. According to Autodromo, link the slab-sided nature link of the case is inspired by cars like the Porsche 962C and the Sauber C9.
There were too many controversies to recap in the auction world last year, but the link biggest one was the record-setting tropical Omega Speedmaster sold by Phillips that turned out to be a Frankenwatch. Since then, the Speedmaster market has been on life support. One of the biggest watch auction controversies ever has a way of chilling the market. If an auction house does take the risk of placing link a Speedmaster in a sale, they've often underperformed or failed to link sell.
The thing Kim is looking for most when buying for the kitchen is durability. He's always wondering if this or link that tool is going to break down over time, hoping that link it won't.So it may come as some surprise that he wears nice watches in the kitchen. His rationale is hard to argue with: The chef works almost 15 or 16 hours a link day, five or six days a week. "If I don't wear a watch in the kitchen, when am I going to?"
Like a Roman general showing tributes during a triumphal parade, Hayek wore multiple watches on both wrists as a way of concretely demonstrating the domains (read, "brands") over which link he held suzerainty. link He did it, in other words, with zero self-doubt and in a spirit of exuberant celebration, and if the man who did more than any single person to bring link the Swiss watch industry back from the brink after the Quartz Crisis can do it, you can too.
On the wrist, the watches wear completely differently. Wearing them back vitrine montre to back underscored the notion that materials make a massive difference. The stainless steel reference felt present. Give your wrist a jiggle and you know it's there. The link black dial and bezel are safe and relatively restrained for a dive watch, and the polished surfaces make it feel like it wants to be just a tad fancy. It's a tool link watch, but it's got some luxury shine.
Part of the reason for the size of the cases for the Super link Titanium Dive Automatics link is the bezel construction. The bezel doesn't link sit on top of the case; instead, it's set into it, in a sort of semi-shrouded design.
Charles-Henri's name was link synonymous with watchmaking. The valley's first watchmaker, Samuel-Olivier link Meylan, a distant relative, started his link workshop in 1743 without the warrant required by the body that oversaw watchmakers. Despite his defiance he eventually was able to secure not only a warrant but the valley's own governing body, and with it, its future.