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Franck Muller Vanguard Lady Vanguard And Tourbillon Gravity Heart Skeleton
It measures about 44mm broad, which can be pretty moderate by today’s standards, but it’s almost 60mm tall and 14mm thick. Add to this its curved contours, massive curved sapphire crystal, bright rose gold case with brushed finishing, and the large, exposed, and well-finished movement inside, and also the watch almost demands to be noticed.If…
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Franck Muller Custom Oppa Gangnam Style Watch For PSY
In regards to watches, especially mechanical watches, there is not any denying that they are astoundingly complex miniature machines. Have you wondered how those watches were created and verified prior to the first piece of metal is cut? This used to be entirely done by hand with slow and drawings prototyping. However, starting in the…
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Hamilton Celebrates 100 Years Of Timing The Skies With A New Limited Edition
As one of the more accessible watch brands within the Swatch Group, Hamilton always tries to balance innovation with affordability in its new pieces, while maintaining the hybrid tool watch aesthetic that its fans have come to love. The first new watch from Hamilton that we’d like to show you manages to do all of…
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Chanel J12 GMT Matte Watch Review
Today I’d like to review the Chanel J12 GMT Matte ref. H3101 men’s watch from a brand that typically makes things for women. No doubt you are probably familiar with the Chanel J12 family of watches. For at least a while in mid 2000s, the J12 was perhaps the hottest luxury lady’s watch around. You…
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Chanel Code Coco Watch
Of all the Swiss watch brands, Watch Channel V Online is perhaps the only one that could pull off introducing two new calibers, one year after the next, followed immediately by a quartz fashion watch designed after a handbag clasp, giving it a name like Chanel Code Coco. There are many things to admire about…
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Chanel Monsieur Watch With First In-House Movement Hands-On
For Baselworld 2016, luxury fashion house Chanel Watches 0 Finance returned some of their wristwatch-making focus to men with the debut of the “Monsieur de Chanel.” With a novel design and movement produced in-house (in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland), using some parts made by very good local Swiss component suppliers, this surprise move by the Parisian…
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Chanel J12 G10 Watches With The Most Feminine NATO Straps You’ve Seen
The now iconic Chanel Watches Womens J12 watch for (mostly) women took another step forward this year in 2014 with the introduction of the new Chanel J12 G10 collection. “G10” is a term used to describe what are now often referred to as “NATO” straps. Some would argue that “G10” is perhaps a more accurate…
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The Best ‘His & Hers’ Watches For Couples
To many couples, the idea of a “his-and-hers” watch duo is appealing. The idea is to have sets of watches from the same brand and collection which are offered in equally appealing men’s and women’s variants. Thus, there is typically a larger and more masculinized “his” version, as well as typically a smaller and possibly…
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10 Discontinued Modern Watches Still On My Wish List
It probably doesn’t surprise you that as the founder of aBlogtoWatch, I spend a lot of time looking at watches on the internet. In fact, I would say that anyone who considers themselves a watch enthusiast is more or less required to spend at least an hour a week browsing for watches on eBay or…
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Recalling A Modern Exotic: Chanel J12 Rétrograde Mystérieuse Tourbillon Watch
I’d like to experiment with a new column where I talk about interesting specimens of high horology that perhaps should have never made it beyond the concept phase. It isn’t that they are bad watches per se, but rather that they lacked a few important elements that would have allowed them to be a lot…
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Madison Avenue Watch Week 2014 Map & Guide
Popular among hipsters who prefer to modernize vintage watches as well as sport watch men who wish to bring some colour and potential comfort to their game watches, NATO straps seldom say “luxury.” That is until Chanel decided to adopt the concept of a NATO strap for their high-end fashion purposes.Will Chanel do to the…
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BEST FROM: aBlogtoWatch & Friends June 30, 2017
We have a couple of biggies in this last round-up for the month of June. We begin first with Vacheron Constantin’s epic Les Cabinotier Celestia Astronomical Grand Complication 3600 watch, a watch that combines 23 complications into a case that is just 13.6mm thick. Next, we have a brand new perpetual calendar watch from Patek…