As I mentioned earlier, since 2015 Tudor has made its own movements for several of its watches. Here, you can see Tudor's in-house MT5602 movement being fitted with Tudor's own escapement, which is equipped with a silicon spring. Like its larger sister brand Rolex, Tudor operates its own movement manufacturing facility in another part of Switzerland. The movements are completed, and their escapement is added and adjusted, by watchmakers at the Geneva HQ. Caliber: 9F86 QuartzFunctions: Hours, minutes, seconds, date, second time zone Additional Details: Instant date advance, local jumping hour GMT set, accurate to +/- 10s a year (SBGN003/005), +/- 5s a year for the SBGN001 LE While I can't say a new bracelet is a deliberate move toward the more sculptural or heavily design-driven trends that are hot on the vintage market right now, what I can say is that the Settimo, with its seven gracefully articulated links, transforms the 1908 into something closer to a piece of jewelry. It also brings Rolex into the next level up of slim luxury dress-watches. There is a further personal connection for Heaton as well, as he picked a Benthos as the watch worn by Julian "Tusker" Tusk, the protagonist of his book series. In explaining the pick, Jason said: "In my book, Depth Charge, I wanted the protagonist, Tusker, to wear a watch that was more purposeful and not precious, to reflect his own character. The important thing with this watch, though, is the provenance. According to the Beverley Hills–based GWS Auctions, this watch was given to Marlon Brando after he won the 1973 Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather. It's insane to think that it was five years ago this week that Apple released the very first Apple Watch (and Ben wrote about it here). Yesterday I made my now-annual trip out to Cupertino, California, for today's keynote event and the folks at the world's largest company didn't disappoint at all.

pas cher panerai montres A photo so nice, we had to use it twice. Father and son Rhyan and Lynell Washington pose with their new Mission to the Moon models. When this watch launched in 2016, it was in a platinum case with a black enamel dial. The new version is in white gold, with a blue enamel dial. I'm a big fan of platinum minute repeaters because generally speaking, it's a very tough material to use in chiming complications. The simplest watch of the trio is the Villeret Ultraplate, which offers a very traditional three-hand 40mm design, a date window, and a slim case height of 8.7mm. Two dial colors, opaline or golden brown, and two metals, steel or red gold, make for four references total. Inside the watch is the Calibre 1151 automatic movement, in full view through the caseback. It's uncomplicated and serves as Blancpain's flagship dress watch. The event features a confirmed slate of "who's who" in the indie space (and some of the best independent watches you'll ever see all in one place). For example, for the vast majority of the 20th century, the gold wristwatch was considered the pinnacle of wristwear by most. However, as tastes shifted since the 70s, we find ourselves able to purchase gold watches for only a slight upcharge from their steel counterparts (and on some rare occasions, less). In the Shop, we've got two fantastic examples of just such timepieces.

These watches have generally eschewed the highly polished surfaces of many other integrated bracelet luxury timepieces and often were presented in matte, bead-blasted finishes which emphasized the post-modern, architecturally centered geometry of the cases. Its thick neoprene drysuit, known as the Unisuit, was seen on most of the top deep wreck divers in the 1970s and '80s. The fact that Doxa co-branded with Poseidon may seem odd today but back then, Doxas were sometimes sold in dive shops and were so purpose-built for diving that they were almost seen as just another piece of gear.