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    It’s not a Speedmaster, and that’s okay. This vintage De Ville was introduced in 1968, with the lever-and-cam caliber 860. This De Ville has a rare slate-grey dial, which is perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of the watch. This two-register chronograph's dial changes appearance according to the light, turning metallic blue, grey, or even black.Nobody needs a pilot's watch – probably. Like the mechanical diver's watch, though, they're not entirely obsolete, either. First of all, having something backing up essential systems is a fundamental aspect of risk reduction, whether you're in the air or underwater. Secondly, in highlighting one or two essential pieces of information, they serve a valuable, if supplementary, practical purpose.The Otemachi Nomura Building, in Tokyo's Otemachi district, blends a 1930s office building facade with a modern 27-story tower dating from the 1990s. Part of that original structure was a clock tower on the building's corner. The building's architect was Koichi Sato, who designed many public buildings in Japan. The Otemachi district is on the site of the former village of Shibazaki, the oldest part of the city of Tokyo.The FFC Blue joined – surpassed, really – an already strong day for independent watchmakers at Only Watch. The Akrivia Chronometre Contemporain II reached CHF 800,000, and the collaboration watch between Kari Voutilainen and De Bethune broke CHF 1 million. Shortly after the Journe watch closed, the H. Moser Streamliner Cylindrical Tourbillon hit CHF 750,000.The Submariner, on the other hand, has featured crown guards since 1959. And do you know why? Because they protect the crown. If you were actually to put a Sub through its paces, diving, adventuring, what have you, it's possible to damage the crown if you aren't careful. Guarding it on both sides is a way to keep such damage from occurring. The same goes for the ceramic bezel which, unlike Tudor's cool and vintage aluminum, is effectively scratch-resistant and replica longines watches will never, ever fade.The Patrimony turns 20 this year. Created in 2004 but wholly inspired by the minimalist watches of the 1950s, the Patrimony collection has become the modern dress watch staple in the Vacheron catalog. Today we see two new (marginally) shrunken down to 39mm manual winding models as well as a 41mm with moonphase and retrograde date added to the lineup.
    On dive watches, Jack once wrote, "A dive watch works or doesn't, on its most basic level, in terms of how successful it is functionally." The Certina works. Beyond telling the local time, it accurately displays the elapsed time of my blackwater dive with its push-to-turn bezel. Zero water ingress occurs. The deepest max depth I record in the blackwater is 76 ft., nowhere near the 500-meter depth rating.It is too early for this heat. June should be the month that eases you into summer, the month with bright sun, with cool breezes, the month that welcomes you back outside. Instead, replica omega horloges it is 90 degrees and almost 200% humidity on Tuesday afternoon at the Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York for the Hermès Texture of Time event. It is also, for many of us, our first large gathering in almost two years. We make gleeful small talk about the weather.The reason I wore it so much is I spent the whole year trying to make the perfect Gibson martini – and Ian Fleming, who created James Bond, also wore a 1016, and he drank up to a bottle of gin a day ... Rolex also made a fair amount of wood dials for its Cellini line. The hexagonal tonneau-shaped ref. 4122 with mahogany dial measures around 28mm x 30 to 35mm, depending on the model, and looks like something a cigar-smoking, backgammon-playing aristocrat would wear to the Groucho Club in London.The amount Breitling is rumored to have paid is multiples of what anyone else offered. Obviously, they see commercial value in Universal – you don't spend that much money because you love old chronographs and Genta-designed microrotor watches – and they have confidence in their ability to revive it. But that also means that Breitling has to ensure the new Universal is a major commercial success.The 38mm size does feel like an attempt at diversification in service of a more modern consumer. The SBGH341 "Sakura-Kakushi" and SBGH343 "Sakura-Wakaba" aren't "tool" watches, but they are sporty in looks. Grand Seiko sits in this versatile middle ground where enthusiasts know them for being dressy, and yet most of their current offerings are sort of the opposite. Their dress watch offerings now have morphed into a diluted dress watch/sports watch hybrid.
    First up, I think the starting point with this Zodiac is the styling, which I rather like in both its ability to suggest the charm of a replica rolex watches vintage diver while also looking distinctive. If you were to visit Zodiac’s website, you would find that the brand produces a wide collection of Super Sea Wolf divers. The version seen here is reference ZO9266 with a navy blue dial with bright orange accents that gives this model a sort of Doxa-adjacent vibe that I really like.At the end of the day, the CA53W-1 is essentially a new-vintage digital watch that is deeply – almost spiritually – connected to the 1980s. That history is the wellspring of its charm, and it's why this watch still exists despite its many idiosyncrasies. As a modern watch, the CA53W-1 has lost little of that original appeal. Yes, the concept is outdated, but the same could be said for other icons of the watch world. And you can't get any of them for $20.So I think the watch is largely quite impressive, but what about its context? Above, I used Toyota's move to create Lexus to highlight how hard it can be to move a brand into a new category, and truth be told it's not a perfect analogy as Toyota already made cars and they still felt they needed Lexus to convince customers to buy a somewhat more luxurious Toyota. This is a watch that says Leica on the dial and is very much a Leica product.The Zeitwerk Decimal Strike, like the Striking Time, strikes "in passing," which means that if you have striking enabled (as with the Striking Time, you can turn the strike function on or off at will) it will strike automatically as the hands pass each hour or 10 minute interval. (In French this is called striking en passant; I have no idea what it would be in German. Striking im Vorbeigehen?) The Decimal Strike chimes the hours with a lower pitched chime and the 10s with a higher pitched chime.

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