Calderon’s Gen Watches exist as digitally rendered spoofs on the timepieces you know and love – see his Rodex Daitona and Rodex Bitmariner. He designs the 3-D link animations link with the help of an algorithm and uploads the finished product (a JPG or GIF) to his store, where enthusiasts pay handsomely for them in an abstracted form of currency. Today, a watch made from pixels that you store on your hard drive and show off on social media can command as much as link a Rolex Submariner. Welcome to the future.
So let's take a look at the new. The brand has gone ahead and introduced two brand new dial colors – going the extra mile of bestowing upon those colors their own names. link Meet link Future Orange link and Absolute Grey.
According to the website SubGMT, everything about this watch is original except for the link bezel inlay. The pearl of link the inlay looks indeed more white than the hour markers or hands. link I couldn't care less to be honest.
A Datejust is a Datejust until it isn't. While one of the most iconic wristwatches of all-time, the Datejust is meant to be understated and has link served as an entry point into Rolex for over 75 years. Given its link core disposition, in some situations, the Datejust can read as flat at times. Without a great detail like patina on the lume or a unique dial, the watch presents as somewhat normal in my jaded mind. link (Hey, don't judge, I look at watches all day.)
The Fleming Series 1 comes from the mind of young link American founder Thomas Fleming, a collector who began dreaming of founding his link own brand during the pandemic. To make link that dream a reality, Fleming enlisted the help of some of the greats of the Swiss watch industry. He also connected with James Kong, better known by his Instagram handle @waitlisted, who left an 11-year career as a corporate attorney in New York to join Fleming as its COO and art director at the start of 2023.
From there, blue abounds. The link markers are a reflective blue, the applied logo and wordmarks are blue, the chronograph seconds hand is blue. link Even the two link dots beside the 12 o'clock marker are surrounded in blue. The nylon strap is also, yes, blue.
You could say that Audemars Piguet got lucky when the original 5402 Royal link Oak didn't sink the brand in 1972, but I'd argue it must have been downright clairvoyant to look beyond the quartz crisis, staff up, and make not only a great old school perpetual calendar (again, that's the link 5548-25548), but then take its movement and link put it into an even more risky (and challenging) platform like the Royal Oak.
The book is a brisk 280-page history link of the watch that tells the story of its main characters and objects. Just as interesting as this history are Struthers' meditations on the impact culture, religion, history, and people have had on time, clocks, and how we perceive them. But what sets Hands of link Time apart are the intimate details shared of Struthers' own journey link as a watchmaker.
Then my thoughts turned to the unfortunate truth link that interest in manned undersea labs has waned in recent decades. I was a tourist in link this habitat, with a sense of nostalgia for something that hadn't even happened during my lifetime. I thought about the future of undersea living and how it doesn't seem particularly bright. Mankind made link so many advancements in undersea living during the '60s and '70s and then it just slowed down. What was once PRINUL is now a luxury hotel for tourists like me.
On the occasion of the Olympics, both the astronaut and the cosmonaut were wearing yellow gold Omegas, Stafford a Speedmaster link and Leonov a Constellation. One of the most sought-after Speedmaster special editions honors the historic success of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. However Leonov's relationship with link Omega tool watches started well before he was presented the custom yellow gold constellation with the date wheel in Russian after link a successful mission.