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Skeleton designs present watchmakers with a practical conundrum. How does a designer balance the desire to showcase the intricacies of a movement with the very real concerns of legibility? Rather than navigating the narrow path that balances skeleton aesthetics and utility, independent Swiss boutique brand Zeitwinkel has instead opted for a cleaner and materially simpler solution – a transparent blue sapphire dial. Transparent dials are nothing new in watchmaking replica uhren , with examples across the industry going back decades, but many modern examples are confined to the more affordable end of the market. The new Zeitwinkel 273° Saphir Bleu sets itself apart with a truly luxe take on the transparent dial concept, offering wearers the best of both a visible movement and a solid dial design. Compared to the intricacy of the dial and the movement, the 42.5mm stainless steel case of the Zeitwinkel 273° Saphir Bleu keeps things visually simple. The rounded smooth bezel, angular lugs, a...

 Inspired by 1970’s integrated-band watches and completed with a gradient sandwich dial, the Roebuck SCUBA is a refreshing and novel take on a neo-vintage diver. Why bring back this retro style? Why not? The SCUBA’s integrated band offers a seamless, coherent design that makes for a clean aesthetic and incredible comfort. There are plenty of reissues of watches from the 1970s available today, but rather than recreate a particular model or specific design, replika órák the SCUBA channels the style and design ethos of the golden era of watchmaking to create a thoroughly rugged, yet polished diver with a flavor all its own. In creating a modern diver, Roebuck wanted the dial to stand out from the crowd of 70s-inspired divers. Asked why he created the SCUBA, the brand’s founder, Guy Roebuck, said, “It was pretty simple. At the time of designing the SCUBA (2019), I wasn’t comfortable with using any of my watches for more demanding outdoor activities, so I decided to create my own adven...

 At a glance, the new limited-edition Raketa “Russian Code” watch seems like an expected product from the legacy St. Petersburg-based Russian watchmaker. It has a vintage Soviet-era theme with a nod to the brand’s military and scientific equipment history. The Raketa Russian Code was debuted on aBlogtoWatch here. The glossy black case has a dial featuring a globe of our planet, as well as a series of constellations scattered between the applied hour markers. It’s a pretty nice looking, if not baroque, dressier watch. And then you notice that the hour markers and hands go in the “wrong” direction. While not the first watch to do this, it is not common for timepieces to have dials that run counterclockwise. Clocks so consistently have hands that turn in one direction versus the other, the term we use to describe this motion is “clockwise (or rather, “as the clock does”). Counterclockwise by contrast is by nature the opposite of what a clock does replicas de relojes . To produce a tim...

 This year, Junghans is celebrating 160 years of watchmaking in Germany’s Black Forest region. What better way to commemorate this milestone than by releasing a thoroughly modern watch that pays homage to the brand’s esteemed history. The Junghans Meister fein Automatic epitomizes the brand’s keen eye for form and design in an elegant and versatile package. A three-hand automatic watch that appears, at first blush, replicas relojes to be a classically styled dress watch hides a surprise in the form of a convex mid-case that creates a striking silhouette with a sculptural beauty. The result is a timeless watch that evokes the past while being every bit a contemporary timepiece that will continue to impress for decades to come. For those unfamiliar with Junghans, the German brand has been prolific over the decades, both in terms of quantity (it was exporting over three million watches and clocks at the start of the 20th century), innovation, and design. Throughout the 1900s, the bra...

 Launched by Breitling in 2020, the Chronomat collection is expanding with the Chronomat B01 42 Ice Blue, a new timepiece in stainless steel with a platinum bezel plate matched to an Ice Blue dial. Strongly characterised by the typical unidirectional bezel with four rider tabs, the case of the new model has a diameter of 42 mm and a water resistance of 200 metres / 660 feet, also thanks to a screwed down crown with two gaskets replica uhren . Thickness is 15.1 mm. Protected by a cambered sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment on both sides, the ice blue dial has three black contrasting chronograph count­ers with a small date aperture at 6 o'clock. The Chronomat B01 42 Ice Blue is powered by the in-house Breitling Manufacture Caliber 01, a COSC-certified chronometer beating at the frequency of 4 Hz (28,800 vibrations per hour) with an autonomy of approximately 70 hours. Equipped with a black rubber strap, the Breitling Chronomat B01 42 Ice Blue ref. PB0134101C1S1 has  ...

 When it was originally envisioned in 1938, the first sport watch by Alpina had four key prerequisites: it had to be anti-magnetic, shock-resistant, water-resistant and rust-resistant. The current Alpiner4 collection stays this course and expands with two new Alpiner4 Automatic models, both maintaining the design of the original and four time indications: hours, minutes, seconds and date orologi replica . The new dials features, for the first time, horizontal lines with a sunray-brushed finish diffusing the light over their entire surface.  The 44 mm x 13.15 mm stainless steel cases alternate brushed and polished surfaces and are equipped with a bidirectional turning bezel with black markers. The watches are water resistant up to a pressure of 10 ATM (approximately 100 metres / 330 feet). Luminescent applied hour markers and luminescent hour and minutes hands improve legibility in any light condition. The seconds hand ends with a red triangle shaped counterbalance that symboli...

 The new SUB 200 Whitepearl by DOXA is perfectly timed for Summer, a timepiece that is "refreshing" both for its trendy whitepearl tone and for its versatility. After our introductory article (you can read it here), we are now able to share more pictures and details. The Whitepearl is the seventh colour chosen by DOXA for its SUB 200 diving watch and joins the Orange repliki zegarków , Silver, Black, Blue, Yellow and Turquoise ones. The watch comes in a 42 mm case crafted from 316L stainless steel, a steel that offers excellent resistance to corrosion. When you handle it, and even more when you wear it, you have the impression that the watch is smaller than 42 mm in diameter thanks to the short lugs and their original shape. The overall thickness, including the domed ‘glass box’ anti-reflective sapphire crystal, is 14 mm. The unidirectional rotating bezel features a sapphire insert that is not only beautiful to see but also scratch-proof. The three-hand plus date dial offers ...

 IWC introduced its first "Mojave Desert" model, featuring a case made from sand-coloured ceramic, in 2019. The special colour of this ceramic is inspired by the Mojave Desert, home to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake – the largest land area of the U.S. Navy. It exactly matches the uniforms worn by Navy pilots and is the result of a combination of zirconium oxide with other metallic oxides. This year, the Schaffhausen-based watchmaker added two new references to the series using, for the first time rolex replika , the sand-coloured hi-tech material for the Big Pilot’s Watch case. The first model, the Big Pilot’s Watch TOP GUN Edition “Mojave Desert” ref. IW506003, comes in a 46 mm x 14.6 mm  case that features a soft-iron inner cage to shield the IWC-manufactured 52110 movement from the effects of magnetic fields.  This 4 Hz (28,800 vibrations per hour) calibre is equipped with a highly efficient Pellaton winding system that builds up a 7-day power reserve stored ...

 Tokyo 2021 finally started and, for the 29th time in history, Omega is serving as the Official Timekeeper of the Olympic Games continuing a unique partnership that started almost 90 years ago. The Los Angeles Games in 1932 marked the first time that responsibility for Olympic timekeeping had been assigned to a single company: Omega. At the previous Games in Amsterdam, timekeepers had used their own stopwatches. In 1932, for the first time replicas de relojes , 30 calibrated chronographs would provide unprecedented precision. In 1936, a suitcase containing 185 stopwatches travelled from Basel to Berlin for the Olympic Games that would be remembered for the great Jesse Owens. The Second World War meant a 12 year gap before the Games would return in London, in 1948.  Omega had provided more than 50% of all the military timepieces - watches, wristwatches and pocket watches - to the Allied forces, including the Royal Airforce pilots flew. Such a huge effort had an impact on the ti...

 This Week's Vintage Watches While you won't find a Hollywood-quality trailer in this week's vintage-watch assortment, there's enough here to satisfy the mid-week boredom of even the most discerning watch lovers. White-dialed chronographs are the clear highlight this week, but watches with "non-lume" dials or slide-rule bezels follow close behind. Smaller, more curated themes are present but this doesn't impact our weekly variety. Read on for the full details on the three white-dialed chronographs from Heuer, Enicar, and Movado, but there is even more behind the curtain and featured in the slideshow, above. Other brands checking in are Certina, Junghans, and Wittnauer, along with more standard names like Rolex, Tudor, Patek Philippe, replicas relojes and Omega. It is in a collection like this one that you can truly begin to understand how all these brand names fit together to create the world of vintage watches. Check out this week's entire selection ...

 You can spot a Panerai from across a room thanks to its sheer size. The XXL cases and corresponding crown guards have become the brand's calling card – and helped to kick off an early aughts trend toward bigger watches in general, but there's another attribute that's defined Panerai from its early days: An old-fashioned manual wind. Panerai's North American president, Philippe Bonay, who was with the company as it was taking off in the late '90s, remembers retailers being flummoxed by the largely hand-winding range of sport watches that he was trying to sell them. They'd been trained to expect automatic movements by other brands, vertrauenswürdige replica uhren and while Panerai had some of those too, it was doing its own thing. From vintage Rolex-manufactured watches with Cortebert movements in the middle part of the 20th century, to those using Angelus 8-day calibers and later Unitas-equipped pieces, Panerai's reliance on movements you have to wind up vi...

 Yes, we’re talking men’s watches with diamonds. No, don’t click away from this post just yet.  I am aware that this is a bit of a tricky subject, since most men don’t like to wear diamonds. However, a lot of men who love watches do have respect for the work that goes into diamonds — the cutting, polishing, setting, et cetera. Ever since I visited the Bunter factory just outside Geneva (read more about my visit in this article from Fratellowatches.com), a company that specializes in cutting and setting diamonds for watches from Cartier, Patek Philippe, Hublot and others, my interest in diamonds and diamond-setting has increased. I was actually the first journalist who got to see that company’s entire process from A to Z. It was an amazing experience vertrauenswürdige replica uhren , and taught me that even some of the biggest names in watchmaking, such as Cartier and Patek Philippe, entrust the work on their diamond-set master pieces to outside experts. I still wouldn’t normal...

 The market for pre-owned items is huge. The success of websites like Craigslist, AutoTrader and so on are a testimonial. And the wristwatch market is no exception. Although a wristwatch is often a very personal item, at some point people are willing to part with it and trade up for something more expensive, or more special to them. In this article, Robert-Jan Broer of FratelloWatches offers some guidance on where to look and what to look for. Before we start, it is important to understand that the market for pre-owned watches can be divided into two categories, those being fairly recent watch models and vintage watches. For this discussion, we’ll stick with pre-owned watches from 1990 and later. Everything before 1990 could be considered “vintage,” although some define “vintage” as meaning prior to 1980 or even earlier. Why do we draw this line? Because buying vintage watches requires a bit more expertise and explanation. We will cover the topic of buying vintage watches separatel...

 If you have more than one watch, you essentially have a watch collection. So what do you do with your other watch (or watches) when you are leaving home or will be out of town for a couple of days (or weeks)? Allow me to offer a few options for safe storage of any watches you’re not currently wearing, to ensure that your precious collection is not subject to burglary, fire, or other loss. 1. Bank Deposit Box Most banks offer a service in which you can rent a deposit box from them. For a small annual fee, you can store your precious watches, jewelery or important documents in a metal box that will go into a safe room. Normally, these deposit boxes are insured for a certain amount of money (ask for this!). This is perhaps the safest way to tuck away your watches when you’re planning to leave for an extended trip. However, if you’re someone who likes to regularly rotate the watches you wear, it might become annoying to go to the bank, go through the whole safe-visit procedure, and sw...

As noted in my other article about buying pre-owned watches, the market for truly “vintage” watches is something quite different from that for relatively young “pre-owned” watches. Any watch made before 1990 could be considered vintage, although some collectors put the maximum year of “vintage” at 1980 or even earlier. I’d like to use 1990 as the baseline for this article, which offers my tips on buying vintage watches, but in the end you’ll have to decide for yourself whether a given watch is old enough for you to qualify it as “vintage.” There are two very important questions to consider when it comes to buying vintage watches:  Can you and do you trust the seller of the watch? Does the seller have a good reputation when it comes to selling vintage watches? Investigate! There are enough forums, Facebook groups and blogs out there that might have mentioned the seller in a positive — or negative — manner replika órák . Although it might sound cliché, also learn to trust your gut fe...

 Always a brand known for making a statement, H. Moser & Cie unveiled one of its more interesting timepieces in recent memory, the Endeavour Tourbillon Concept Tiger’s Eye, at the recent Watches & Wonders virtual exhibition. A novel take on the now-familiar Endeavour design, it dresses up that model’s understated look with two bright new mineral dial options and also adds a tourbillon. The dial materials are what lend the watch its name, constructed from Tiger’s Eye, a microcrystalline quartz and semi-precious gemstone relojes replicas . According to the brand, the stone’s uncommon, striated appearance represents “a natural reinterpretation of Moser fumé dials,” and in effect places the brand’s stylistic signature in a new, natural light. Measuring 40 mm in diameter and 11.2-mm thick, the watch’s case is in either 18k rose gold or white gold, each of its facets brightly polished. The lugs of the watch are slightly rounded, curving towards the wrist, as they are on previous ...

 Vacheron Constantin led off its 2021 novelties this year with new versions of familiar faces: the renewed Historiques American 1921 in a white gold case, celebrating 100 years since the original’s release, along with a trio of Overseas models expanding the popular range with new materials and complications. Alongside these launches, the Swiss maison had a few more very notable watches up its sleeve las mejores replicas de relojes , like the one we focus on today, the Traditionnelle Split-Seconds Chronograph Ultra-Thin, which joins Vacheron’s ultra-exclusive Collection Excéllence Platine. The new limited edition is the latest to house the brand’s manufacture Caliber 3500, an ultra-thin split seconds chronograph movement developed for 2015’s Harmony Ultra-Thin Grande Complication Chronograph, in which it debuted. Vacheron Constantin’s revival of the movement comes as part of an effort to bolster the “Classic with a Twist” theme that it has adopted for this year’s launches, i.e., hig...

 Lausanne-based CODE41 started 2021 with a bang. Launching its attention-grabbing NB24 at the start of the year, the brand best known for lifting the curtain on traditional luxury watchmaking since its meteoric rise at the beginning ot 2016, has gone on to build even more excitement around its horological projects. This week, CODE41 launches its latest project for the year, which represents the next generation of the popular X41collection replicas de relojes . The launch ushers in the fifth edition of the X41 series since its debut in March 2019 — with subsequent releases in November 2019 and July 2020 completely selling out during their pre-order campaigns — and demonstrates CODE41’s persistent and sustained interest in the series’ unconventional design. Like the models that have preceded it, the X41 Edition 5 will stick with the formula that has brought it so much success until now: namely, an exclusive design and architecture built in collaboration with, and exclusively for, the...

 Piaget’s 1970s-influenced, male-oriented sport-luxury Polo collection, whose most recent revamp had come in 2016, returned to the spotlight earlier this year with the release of the first Polo Skeleton models in stainless steel cases. Piaget had hinted at a renewed focus on the Polo collection in 2021 and the watch-and-jewelry house has delivered, by following up the steel-cased models with four additional pieces in gold — three of them diamond-set, two of those with fully paved cases and movements — unveiling them at Watches & Wonders 2021. Like all of Piaget’s gold watches, the cases of the Piaget Polo Skeleton — known for their “shape within a shape” design combining a round case with a pillow-shaped dial opening — are forged in Piaget’s own in-house gold foundry. The skeletonized, ultra-thin caliber 1200S is also crafted in-house, and the gem-setting on the movements and cases is all done on-premises by skilled artisans. Like their steel predecessors, the cases measure a c...

 Do you like Tudor? Do you like all-bronze watches? Then we have news for you! The freshly announced Tudor Black Bay Fifty-Eight Bronze is a boutique-edition piece that nevertheless doesn’t appear to be limited to a certain production number — only to the places you can actually find it and buy it at, which are the roughly 50 Tudor boutiques around the world. Presented in the highly popular 39mm case size — with a case thickness of 11.9mm and a lug-to-lug measurement of 48mm — the Tudor Black Bay Fifty-Eight Bronze now adds a bronze bracelet to really drive home the bronze watch craze. Tudor calls this color palette a “rich brown-bronze tone,” and a deep brown dial and bezel complement the all-bronze exterior repliki zegarków . The material itself is a “living metal, a high-performance aluminum bronze alloy used particularly in naval engineering for submerged parts required to demonstrate a high level of resistance to corrosion such as propellers.” Fans of bronze watches know very ...