We’re very excited to show you all our latest collaboration. Sometimes when you put a watch on your wrist and look down, you know immediately that something special is staring back at you. This is the Ressence Type 1H Limited Edition For HODINKEE and it’s a true first in a number of important ways.
This is it; the star of show – or at least the watch that received most comments and that reached the 1st place in our “most read article of Baselworld 2017“. And believe us, surpassing Rolex in numbers during the Basel Watch Fair is properly impressive… All of that, just to tell you how expected this watch was and how well received it has been. Its name: the Seiko Prospex Diver SLA017. Its function: being a faithful recreation of the 1965 Seiko 62Mas ref. 6217, meaning the first professional dive watch of the Japanese manufacture. Its achievement: already being a collector. Overview of an upcoming success story.
This is it; the star of show – or at least the watch that received most comments and that reached the 1st place in our “most read article of Baselworld 2017“. And believe us, surpassing Rolex in numbers during the Basel Watch Fair is properly impressive… All of that, just to tell you how expected this watch was and how well received it has been. Its name: the Seiko Prospex Diver SLA017. Its function: being a faithful recreation of the 1965 Seiko 62Mas ref. 6217, meaning the first professional dive watch of the Japanese manufacture. Its achievement: already being a collector. Overview of an upcoming success story.
Even before qualifying as a vintage-inspired pilot’s watch, the latest Sinn 103 is, first and foremost, a proper tool watch. The chronograph is paired with a bi-directional, 60-minute countdown bezel, day and date indications at three o’clock, screw-down pushers and crown guards to protect the mechanism, as well as an anti-reflective coating on the front sapphire crystal. Some of these typically incur an extra cost, but Sinn provides it all for under $2,600 on a very sturdy stainless steel bracelet with solid end-links.
The 20th anniversary of Parmigiani Fleurier rolled around just last year (the company was founded in 1996). Anniversaries for watch companies can be a very mixed bag (for a while there in the mid-2000s it seemed like some companies were hell-bent on celebrating every year as the one year anniversary of the previous year) and while sometimes you get really interesting stuff, you can also get watches clearly designed with no real enthusiasm, with merely cosmetic variations. However, for its 20th anniversary, Parmigiani Fleurier pulled out all the stops and introduced something genuinely attention-worthy: a brand new, in-house rattrapante (split-seconds) chronograph movement, in a brand new watch. That movement is the caliber PF361 and the watch is the Tonda Chronor Anniversaire.
The 20th anniversary of Parmigiani Fleurier rolled around just last year (the company was founded in 1996). Anniversaries for watch companies can be a very mixed bag (for a while there in the mid-2000s it seemed like some companies were hell-bent on celebrating every year as the one year anniversary of the previous year) and while sometimes you get really interesting stuff, you can also get watches clearly designed with no real enthusiasm, with merely cosmetic variations. However, for its 20th anniversary, Parmigiani Fleurier pulled out all the stops and introduced something genuinely attention-worthy: a brand new, in-house rattrapante (split-seconds) chronograph movement, in a brand new watch. That movement is the caliber PF361 and the watch is the Tonda Chronor Anniversaire.
Back in 1969, Zenith introduced a movement that will later become an icon, as being both one of the first automatic chronograph movements, and being the 20th century’s king of precision, as beating at 5Hz and being precise to the 10th of a second. Its name: the El Primero. At Baselworld, the Le Locle-based manufacture has given this fast-beating engine a 21st century appeal: 50Hz frequency, precision to the 100th of a second, modernized look, open-worked movement. Here is the Zenith Defy El Primero 21… and it’s fast, very fast.
Back in 1969, Zenith introduced a movement that will later become an icon, as being both one of the first automatic chronograph movements, and being the 20th century’s king of precision, as beating at 5Hz and being precise to the 10th of a second. Its name: the El Primero. At Baselworld, the Le Locle-based manufacture has given this fast-beating engine a 21st century appeal: 50Hz frequency, precision to the 100th of a second, modernized look, open-worked movement. Here is the Zenith Defy El Primero 21… and it’s fast, very fast.
Heritage is here to stay. What started as a trend intended to appeal to the hard core of collectors has slipped into the mainstream, and somewhere along the way it became a key pillar in major brands’ release strategies. In 2007 it was very much novelty, now it’s the new normal. Case in point is Patek Philippe’s hero model of 2017 – the 5320G Perpetual Calendar, an undeniably handsome take on a very Patek complication. The 5320G is not a remake of a particular vintage reference (though it does bear a striking resemblance to the ref. 3448); rather it’s a melange of mid-century design codes, neatly combined in a 40mm white gold, retro-modernist package. Most of the attention heaped upon the 5320G has focused on the dial, and it’s easy to see why. The layout is balanced, with day and month apertures at the top, and a moonphase display and pointer date at the bottom. The functions at six are flanked by relatively discreet portholes displaying day/night and leap year indicators respectively. Aside from that the dial is a very warm ivory or cream colour, paired with applied black gold Arabic numerals and syringe-style hands. Both hands and numerals are…
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Heritage is here to stay. What started as a trend intended to appeal to the hard core of collectors has slipped into the mainstream, and somewhere along the way it became a key pillar in major brands’ release strategies. In 2007 it was very much novelty, now it’s the new normal. Case in point is Patek Philippe’s hero model of 2017 – the 5320G Perpetual Calendar, an undeniably handsome take on a very Patek complication. The 5320G is not a remake of a particular vintage reference (though it does bear a striking resemblance to the ref. 3448); rather it’s a melange of mid-century design codes, neatly combined in a 40mm white gold, retro-modernist package. Most of the attention heaped upon the 5320G has focused on the dial, and it’s easy to see why. The layout is balanced, with day and month apertures at the top, and a moonphase display and pointer date at the bottom. The functions at six are flanked by relatively discreet portholes displaying day/night and leap year indicators respectively. Aside from that the dial is a very warm ivory or cream colour, paired with applied black gold Arabic numerals and syringe-style hands. Both hands and numerals are…
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