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Caffeine Carburetors May 2016 – Photo Report
Fullscreen This past Sunday, Josh and I drove out to Caffeine & Carburetors, a car meet-up that happens four times a year in Connecticut (Waveny Park). Everything from vintage cars to muscle cars to modern classics and even a few super cars were in attendance. It was a bit overcast and there was a light…
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Introduce the Alpiner Heritage Manufacture KM-710 to you
As you can see from the image above (the vintage timepiece on the left and the new version on the right), they made a larger, modern version with a dial that closely resembles the military service watches they produced for Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. Today, Alpina announced a new retro timepiece, similar to…
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Introduce the LM1 Silberstein to You
The result is a colorful limited edition of the LM1. Highlights of the new design include a new sapphire crystal balance bridge, concave subdials, and of course, Silberstein’s signature yellow, red, and blue accents throughout. French designer, Alain Silberstein, and MB&F recently announced a new collaboration which combines the MB&F LM1, with styling from Silberstein.…
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Bovet Flying Tourbillon Ottantasei designed by Pininfarina
Fullscreen Overview Dating back to 2010, with the launch of the Ottan Tourbillon, Bovet has partnered with famous Italian car design firm, Pininfarina S.p.A., to create a collection of timepieces called “Bovet by Pininfarina.” The most recent timepiece to be added to this prestigious line of watches is the Flying Tourbillon Ottantasei. Boasting a flying…
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Hublot Big Bang Unico All Black Sapphire Hands-On Watch
It is amazing what JC Biver from Hublot accomplished in the past decade or so. Of course, his track record goes much further than Hublot (think Blancpain and Omega for example). Today he manages Hublot and the success he had with the brand is also being applied to TAG Heuer and Zenith. However, those two…
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Reviewing Orient Monarch
For those of us without deep pockets, Orient watches price present an incredible value. With their solid built quality, reliable workhorse movements (in-house, I might add), and often pleasing designs, they are hard to argue against, and they’re often on the short list when people ask us to point them in the direction of affordable…
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DuBois et fils DBF002-002 Show In Baselworld 2016
Throughout life we are invited to complete various forms which endeavour to pigeonhole our responses into specific categories. Our age, gender, marital status and household income can all be summarised with a series of ticks in boxes. Likewise, fashion watches are often categorised based on complication, type of movement, case material and, most pertinently in…
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New Fashionable NTH Sub Watches From Janis Trading
I first caught wind of the new NTH Subs when Chris Vail, creator of Lew & Huey, sent out a message asking for input on the various models he will be building (more on that here). Looking through the photos, it is easy to see that these fashionable watches were directly inspired by the classic…
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Bulova Sea King Limited Edition
Bulova presented several new fashionable watches with a diving bezel at last year’s Baselworld; certainly the most eye-catching (and at the same time also the only one powered by an automatic movement) was the Bulova Sea King Limited Edition (Ref. 96B226), which features a 1,000-meter water-resistant, 50-mm-large titanium case. Most notably, it’s also got an…
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Fashionable Raymond Weil Celebrates its Fab Fortieth with Maestro Beatles Limited Edition
Raymond Weil is a fashion watch brand with deep connections to music and musicians; recent releases have included a chronograph with Gibson guitar DNA and a tourbillon watch inspired by a cello. To mark its 40th anniversary, the Geneva-based, family-owned brand has released an exclusive timepiece that celebrates the most iconic rock band of all…
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Fashionable Watch: Eterna Super KonTiki Diver Chronograph
Eterna has unveiled, ahead of its official debut at Baselworld 2016, the first image of the upcoming Eterna Super KonTiki Diver Chronograph (below), which takes its inspiration from the redesigned base model that was introduced in 2015. The Eterna KonTiki collection, famously named after the wooden raft used in Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s 1947 ocean…
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Fashionable Watch HYT H2 Tradition: Futuristic Meets Retro
The “hydromechanical horologists” of indie watch brand HYT were among the first-time exhibitors at this year’s SIHH in Geneva. After making a splash at recent Baselworlds with pioneering timepieces like the H1, H2, and H3, the brand headed by watch-industry veteran Vincent Perriard wowed the SIHH crowd with the new H2 Tradition — the first…