Archiv für den Monat: November 2020

TAG Heuer Celebrates Jack Heuer’s Birthday with a Special Edition

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Jack Heuer, the great-grandson of TAG Heuer’s founder, celebrates his eighty-eighth birthday this year. In honor of this symbolic eighty eighth year, which embodies luck with its double infinity loop, the Swiss luxury watchmaker is releasing a limited edition of the recently relaunched TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph. The TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph Jack Heuer Birthday Gold Limited Edition was inspired by Jack’s favourite watch, the legendary Carrera-1158CHN Vintage Chronograph.

Jack Heuer’s favourite collection is the Carrera which was first launched in 1963. It is also the first timepiece that he created entirely, choosing and registering its name as well as designing its aesthetics down to the smallest details. The Carrera was awatch made for professional racing drivers that featured a highly legible, minimalist dial that has helped forge its legendary status. The name of the collection is inspired by the treacherous Carrera-Panamericana race and means „road“, „race“ or even „journey“ in Spanish.
Among all the TAG Heuer Carrera models, there is one that is particularly dear to Jack Heuer’s heart: the all-gold Heuer Carrera 1158CHN dating back to the 1970s. This iconic vintage watch has inspired the TAG Heuer Carrera Jack Heuer Birthday Gold Limited Edition. Made of rose gold, this anniversary piece marks the comeback of this precious metal to the TAG Heuer collections.

Framed by a 42 mm rose gold case, the TAG Heuer Carrera Jack Heuer Birthday Gold Limited Edition features a silver opaline dial with a duo of applied stylised infinity loops in the center of the dial, symbolising Jack’s birthday. True to the aesthetics of the original 1158CHN Heuer model, only the two sunray brushed chronograph subdials at 3 and 9 o’clock appear in contrasting black as a nod to vintage racing timepieces. As for the counter at 6 o’clock, which did not exist in the original version, it elegantly blends in tone on tone with the dial. The silhouette of the redesigned date display and the hands, whose size has been perfectly adjusted to that of the hour-markers, are two subtle details which add the finishing touch to the balanced aesthetics of this timepiece.

This chronograph is powered by the Calibre Heuer02 movement. It guarantees maximum precision and accuracy and provides an impressive power reserve of 80 hours.

The black alligator leather strap bears Jack Heuer’s signature in gold lettering.
This special edition is limited to 188 pieces; a chronograph with charisma and style which is hard to beat in terms of elegance and finesse.

Elegant and Vintage Inspired: Delma Cayman Worldtimer

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Earlier this year, watch manufacturer Delam introduced its new Cayman Worldtimer. This timepiece is undoubtedly inspired not only by the designs of times past, but also by the blue vastness of our world’s oceans. Here, were there are still entire worlds to discover and unknown adventures await those who dare to explore. Delma has dedicated this timepiece to adventurers who seek to discover the wonders of our blue planet above and below the surface. The Worldtimer enables its wearer to be connected, no matter where his explorations may take him.

Delma first introduced the Original Cayman in 2019 and is now adding the Worldtimer to this relatively new collection. All Cayman models are inspired by designs of the 1970s and are paying tribute to the manufacturer’s early diving watches. The new Cayman Worldtimer retains the aesthetic and technical qualities that Delma has already firmly anchored in the collection while offering its wearer a GMT function.
24 reference cities, one for each time zone, appoint the bidirectional riveted bezel framing the dial. They stand out clearly from the black (or blue) background and are clearly identified by a central hand adorned with a red arrow tip.
The polished and sunray-brushed dial comes in three different versions: in deep black, a handsome dark blue or lustrous silver. Before this background, the hour, minute and seconds hands are tirelessly going around in circles. Delma has not only them but also the hour markers equipped with luminous paint, so the dial is clearly legible, even at night. The index at three o’clock is replaced by a small date window.

The Cayman Worldtimer comes in a 42mm stainless steel case with polished and satin-brushed surfaces.
Delma offers this watch with two different movements: either an automatic calibre (the ETA 2893 with a power reserve of 50 hours) or a quartz movement (the Ronda 515.24H). Depending on the calibre, the case offers different levels of water-resistance: the Worldtimer Automatic is water-resistant up to 50 atm, the Worldtimer Quartz only up to 20 atm. The two different versions also differ considerably in price with the quartz watch being available from as little as 590€, for the automatic version the lowest price begins at 1990€.

The Cayman Worldtimer Automatic continues its retro optics in the straps: the watch is available with a milanaise bracelet in stainless steel or on a leather strap with contrasting seams in matching colours.

Tudor Black Bay Fifty-Eight Navy Blue

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Ever faithful to its long tradition of blue sports watches, Tudor now offers a „Navy Blue“ version of its flagship model, the Black Bay Fifty-Eight. This very colour can look back on it’s own eventful history in the Tudor collection. In 1958, the watch manufacturer introduced its first diver’s watch with a water-resistance of 20 atm and it came in the very same dark blue, a „Big Crown“-model with the reference 7924.

Among other aesthetic nods to this historic watch, the new Black Bay Fifty-Eight Navy Blue offers a 39 mm diameter case made from stainless steel in keeping with the characteristic proportions of the 1950s. This qualifies the diver’s watch for slim wrists and everyone who likes to wear compact watches and vintage enthusiasts.

In 1969, Tudor introduced a divers‘ watch with a blue dial and bezel. The other sports watches in the collection were soon attired in blue, immediately coating a lasting aesthetic hallmark known as „Tudor Blue“. The Black Bay Fifty-Eight „Navy Blue“ follows this tradition with its slightly domed, grained dial and navy blue bezel.
Tudor has equipped the uncluttered dial with its characteristic snowflake hands, which have been a hallmark of the manufacturer since 1969 – especially in connection with diving watches. Just like the the indices, the hands are coated with a lot of Super-LumiNova to ensure excellent readability even in the dark.

The Tudor Black Bay Fifty-Eight Navy Blue is powered by a in-house calibre. This self winding movement with the beautiful name MT5402 is COSC-certified, operates at 28,800 vibrations per hour and provides a power reserve of up to 70 hours.

Tudor offers the Black Bay Fifty-Eight Navy Blue with three different straps: a classic stainless steel one, one in blue jacquard fabric with a silver band and a blue „soft touch“ strap which is entirely blue and made from a synthetic, tactile material resembling flannel.

The MB&F Legacy Machine Perpetual Evolution

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Over the past 15 years, MB&F creations have transported their wearers to destinations that exist only on maps of the imagination: from star-cruisers to deep-sea jellyfish, Maximilian Büsser’s Machines are the mechanical cartographers of the multiverse. With the new Legacy Machine Perpetual EVO, this year the Manufacture is undertaking the greatest journey yet – that of evolution. With this watch, you can become a navigator and explore the map of your own life.
In terms of combining prestige, tradition and innovation, Legacy Machine Perpetual has remained at the apex of MB&F watchmaking savoir-faire since it was introduced five years ago.

MB&F has built the LM Perpetual Evolution into a 44 mm zirconium case. This lustrous silvery-grey metals‘ material properties are surpassing those of stainless steel and aluminium. Nevertheless, zirconium is rarely used in watchmaking. The material is known to spontaneously ignite in powdered form, making it dangerous to machine.
The new profile emphasises openness and extreme clarity and a specially developed monobloc shock-absorbing system – the FlexRing – makes for the most robust Machine ever to emerge from MB&F. In this design, MB&F has eliminated the bezel and fused the domed sapphire crystal directly to the case. New geometries had to be calculated, achieving the mechanically opposing aims of maintaining structural strength and decreasing ist height-to-diameter ratio.
The previously circular pushers have been enlarged into double-sprung oblong actuators, boosting the tactile comfort and ease of adjustment. And for the first time in any MB&F creation, the LM Perpetual EVO is rated at 80m of water restistance, enabled by its screw-down crown.

The increased openness of this design highlights the equilibrium between the legibility of LM Perpetual EVO’s calendar indications and the cinematic play of the engine components – surmounted by the iconic MB&F hovering balance wheel.
The three color variants of the coated dial include an atomic orange. Although dark shades of PVD and CVD coating have been used for years in watchmaking, with colours toward the cooler end of the visible light spectrum becoming more common recently, warmer hues such as yellow, orange and red have always remained unattainable. A combination of technical innovations in the areas of coating material and technique allows this Legacy Machine to don an outrageous orange. Blue and black versions are also available.

The LM Perpetual Engine, designed in 2015, features a perpetual calendar that replaces traditional constructions with an innovative mechanical processor consisting of a series of superimposed disks. It takes the default number of days in the month at 28 and then adds the extra days as required by each individual month. This ensures that each month has exactly the right number of days, and removes the possibility of the date jumping incorrectly. And where, in other watches, exists the very real risk of damage by pressing the pushers during the date changeover, this one comes with an inbuilt safety feature. It disconnets the quickset pushers during the date changeover, so that the movement cannot be damaged.

A closely-fitted, integrated strap provides the smoothest wearing experience of any MB&F Machine ever.
Each of the three colours is produced in a limited series of 15 pieces – celebrating the brand’s 15th anniversary.