The straight lugs and round case connect to a number of vintage models (of which there were dozens upon dozens, I should add), and the green, red, and orange color scheme of the original Spaceview is present as well – in the new Accutron 2020, the copper coils of the original are replaced by the drive coil for the stepper motor. That is merely to say, however, that there are party tricks and party tricks. Zenith has here, I think, done a considerably better job than usual in making the extremely archaic fusée-and-chain look interesting to jaded modern eyes. The Genequand oscillator has no conventional pivot for its equivalent of a balance; instead, the annular oscillator is suspended from silicon blade springs, which perform the function of a conventional balance spring. In fact, a watch with this design (but different casebacks) is available to US Navy SEALs, U.S. Secret Service, and one unnamed U.S. special forces unit. So, for a very emotional day, it's no surprise he went with a watch that must mean a lot to him. Though I wish there wasn't any text at all on the strap, it's very well hidden on the six o'clock side of the strap, meaning you'll never really see it at all. The first step in the partnership is the watch you see today. "Dat Watt" is low german for "The Wadden Sea," hence the name of the limited edition.

Picking up where we left off last week, it could be said that as far as dials with retailer signatures go, few are more highly coveted than those signed by the Parisian luxury goods house Hermès. They just about never pop up for sale, and when they do, they certainly don’t go unnoticed (nor do they go for cheap). Having said all this, the watch in question here is not the real deal. Allow me to walk you through a series of red flags. replica Richard Mille uhren These days I don't look at it the same way I did when I was a young man pressed up against the glass outside the Omega boutique in suburban New Jersey. I no longer have visions of sliding my Walther PPK into a concealed holster and then peeling back my cuff to check the time on my Seamaster before striding into a swanky party full of statesmen and beautiful people in an exotic locale. (Okay, fine, maybe I do just a little). In game-theoretical terms, it is a game of "perfect knowledge" – nothing is hidden from either player. Chess is a very classical game in this regard – chance plays no part in it. In 2008, I was close to going to work for AP, but it didn't work out. I was hesitating and not sure about my choice. But two years ago, I said to myself, "I grew up at Patek, but now I need a challenge, a brand that will push me to grow." AP was really the only place where I could picture that, and after two years, I still am so motivated and surprised by the experiences here. I feel like I've gained 20 years of experience thanks to this unique energy at AP. Pure and simple, this is the gold watch I want to have in my collection, knowing I can enjoy it for many years to come. Check it out here.

Hell, back when Doxa first announced the 300 Carbon LE, I was so excited about the idea that I photoshopped a handful of non-Aqua Lung models for my Instagram. To paraphrase another more powerful and predictive element in the current zeitgeist: I like the watch. You could almost think of it as a kid of horological reductio ad absurdum: what happens if you simply push every aspect of traditional horology – not just finish, but also the pursuit of better chronometry with a traditional approach to improved isochronism – as far as it can go? The aesthetics of Greubel Forsey watches have always seemed to me to have been almost stumbled on by accident and