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The best watches are the ones that you want to wear often, and as we head into warmer months, we can't think of one we'd rather keep putting on than this 41mm Black Bay Steel link & Gold. Its two-tone construction delivers the luxury of gold with the sportiness of steel for an effect that's made for lounging by the link pool while on vacation. It's just enough link to be indulgent, with its weighty 18-karat gold central bracelet links, yet practical enough for daily wear.

There were a few other design quibbles if you compare the link first iterations of the modern link Type XX and Type XXI side-by-side, including a stepped dial and recessed sub-dials on the link Type XXI, compared to the relatively flat dial on the Type XX 3800. The first 3810 design featured a brown dial and a titanium case, but it was soon followed by an attractive, warm rose gold case to complement the brown dial.

CIGA Design's winner was the Blue Planet, link a 46mm titanium watch emblazoned with a link three-dimensional aluminum globe in the center of the dial that uses a proprietary asynchronous time display. At the time the prize was announced, I had never heard of CIGA Design – and neither had any of the old-school Swiss link watch industry executives who surrounded me. I needed to know more.

The second batch of Zelos Mirage pieces was a run of 200 skeletonized pilot's link watches with hand-wound La Joux-Perret eight-day movements. Those watches were released last summer started at 3900 and once again featured a range of case materials from tantalum to sapphire crystal. link Tang says we can likely expect the next batch of Mirage watches at some point link in 2023 but he emphasizes that those watches will never represent the heart of his brand Zelos won't stray from where it started.