FRIDAY WIND DOWN: 1st September, 2017 – the ‘Gaga-gate’ edition
Today is less of a wind down and more of a recovery. Last night we hosted a small gathering of some of our favourite watch lovers. Drinks were had, canapés were consumed, watches were ogled, fondled and ‘grammed, and new friends were found. Thanks to everyone who came! But that was last night. Today we’re trying to get the office back into some semblance of order – emptying bins, wiping down surfaces and rearranging our loupe collection. You know, the usual. Gaga-gate The big news this week comes from Tudor, which announced Lady Gaga as its first female ambassador. Gaga joins Beckham as another global face of Tudor’s #borntodare campaign, and fan feedback was as mixed as you’d expect. Comments on our social media ran the gamut from Little Monster love to through to confusion and actual anger. Julie Kraulis is clearly a Monster at heart. The Danish dynamo is on board. One of our Facebook commenters thinks this new relationship is like the start of a bad romance. @Macneil1783 reckon’s he’s cracked the secret of the #borntodare campaign. @Mr028 doesn’t have a very good poker face. Tell us what you really think. However, it’s not all so negative. Our favourite FB discussion talks about…
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The New York Times has published a story about the upcoming auction of Paul Newman’s Rolex Daytona and revealed new facts about the whereabouts of the watch. Until recently it was considered one of the world’s great “lost watches”. But all that time its owner, James Cox, knew exactly where it was. On his wrist. Soon, it will be auctioned for a sum that may exceed $US10 million. These quotes sum up the incredible story. And lastly, write a note for yourself: help someone fix a treehouse this weekend. Despite the fact that it was a gift from his wife of 50 years, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman regifted it to his daughter Nell’s boyfriend at the time, James Cox. Mr Cox said he was helping repair a treehouse on the Newman property when the blue-eyed actor approached and asked the time. “I said, you know, ‘a hair past a freckle,’ or some comment meaning ‘I don’t have a watch’.” Mr Cox, now 52, said. “To which he (Newman) replied: ‘Well, here, here’s this watch. If you remember to wind it, it tells pretty good time’.” Mr Cox wore the watch for nearly a decade on construction jobs and gardening – my heart just stopped –…
There’s a running joke in the Time+Tide office about my proclivity for “beautiful blue” dials –I once managed to say it a few too many times in a short video review and, well, it sort of stuck. But in the case of this new version of the Jaeger-LeCoultre’s classic Master Ultra Thin Réserve de Marche the accolade beautiful blue is well and truly deserved. JLC specialise in ultra-thin watches, and this design of the Réserve de Marche has been a part of the collection since 2012. It is an exceptional, traditionally styled 39mm steel watch with a complicated-but-balanced dial layout consisting of a radial date at two and a power reserve (which gives the model its name) at 10. There’s a small seconds subdial at six that rounds off the dial. Few brands putting together a watch with this cocktail of complications would be able to pull it off with quite the degree of elegance that JLC manages. Partially this is down to the surprisingly restrained use of text on the dial, but mostly it’s because of the clarity of the design. The applied arrowhead markers and sharply faceted dauphine hands are perfect. However, there’s no doubt that the real star here…
