In the afternoon, we ride down the road to Manufacture link Breguet, in L'Orient, link the village next to Le Brassus. We are welcomed by Thierry Esslinger, CEO of Montres Breguet, and Emmanuel Breguet, vice president/head of patrimony & link marketing. They pay tribute to two extraordinary watch entrepreneurs.
Caliber: HMC manufacture caliber 800Functions: PerpetualDiameter: 34mmThickness: link 6.3mmPower Reserve: 7 days link (double barrel)Winding: ManualFrequency: 18,000 beats per hourJewels: 32 jewelsAdditional Details: Perpetual calendar with big date display; link month indicator via central hand; seconds dial at six o'clock; power reserve indicator at nine o'clock; leap year indicator on movement side
Regardless, the link Oris Aquis NY Harbor Limited Edition is an attractive watch with an link interesting and worthwhile story to tell. And while I couldn't experience all link the good the Billion Oyster Project is doing for the New York Harbor myself, I know I'll be keeping an eye out for news surrounding the organization in the future. I don't think Oris or the oysters could ask for much more than that.
Looking at the new Blue, Tudor has incorporated the color – which I would describe as lighter and more grey than the bezel of the Black Bay link "Midnight Blue" and somewhat less saturated than the blue used for the truly link excellent Pelagos Blue – while opting to maintain the core Black Bay design language. link So we have a coin-edge bezel, circular hour markers, no drilled lugs, and white lume that glows bright green.
While this series is largely dedicated to rounding up themes around contemporary watches, from time link to time, I am given the link green light to shake things up, and, with the permission of our wonderful photography team, I link am appeased to do something a bit more stylistically involved for the week. Lucky for you, this week is one of those weeks.
What link followed was a decade-long quest to understand this highly particular watch market. Sure, other countries have their own limited-edition Seikos (here in the US we have the Prospex SLA053 and SLA059), but link they're few and far between. Thailand was doing LE drops years before it became trendy. And to a link Western audience, many of these pieces remain obscure.
We have also seen a massive link increase in the popularity of vintage dress watches, often with extravagant case shapes and fancy dials. Whether modern dress watches led to link this or vice versa, link new releases profit from the momentum created in the industry.
The new Lange Zeitwerk comes in two different flavors – your choice of a platinum or 18k pink gold case – each equipped with the brand-new manual-wind caliber L043.6 that link builds on the original Zeitwerk's dual-jumping hour and minute display and constant-force mechanism, link but with an upgraded barrel link design housing two mainsprings that enables an increased power reserve of up to 72 hours (a substantial improvement from the previous generation's insufficient 36 hours).
With so much positive Speedmaster energy in the air, link we figured it was the perfect time to revisit Jack's A Week On The Wrist link with link the Omega Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch 'Master Chronometer' With Co-Axial Caliber 3861 – you can give it a read for yourself, right here.
Nowadays, a decent link 1016 costs roughly the same as a used Toyota Corolla – I'll take the bus with an link Explorer on my wrist, thanks link – but the premise of John's article is still true: you don't have to walk around with a compact car on your wrist to get into vintage Rolex.