What kind of lover are you? The Velociphile will help you suss out your style:
Panimo – Gullible, you like clocks and have a small one.
Sinfortima – Nobody pulls the wool over your eyes. A bit dull, you manage to live life pretty hard. Decisive, you have a big one.
Watch Lovers Nine Signs [Velociphile's Journey into Watches]
Mmmm… tasty. A new B&R. This is an ETA base caliber, probably a 7750, with 42 hour power reserve. It costs about $3,500, which actually isn’t that bad, and looks like a monster.
TimeZone: Industry News: N E W M o d e l – Bell & Ross Chronograph Aeronavale [TimeZone]
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Looks like Harry has made a nice diver chrono in honor of Andre Agassi. Yep, that’s right. Good old Andre. It sold at auction for $110,000. They better include all of Andre’s hair in that little package.
Harry Winston Ocean Diver [PROFESSIONAL WATCHES]
Did your sig other ask for a Calvin Klein watch for Christmas? Slap them and head over to Watchismo where there are some amazing bargains to be had in classic timepieces. I’m loving this Exactima chrono, for example, and it’s only $325. Go for it, people.
A happy thanksgiving to all our readers. Have a safe and enjoyable holiday.
Steve
So a new watch maker Linde Werdelin has come to our attention. While I dont love the Flash website, I do like the look of a number of their models.
They have 2 basic models – the Elemental and Two-Timer, the Elemental uses an ETA 2892-2 elaborée mechanical movement whilst the Two-Timer has an ETA 2893-2 elaborée mechanical movement to provide two time zones. Each has a 42-hour power reserve, a calendar at 4 o’clock – and a personalised LINDE WERDELIN oscillating weight.
There is an add on for either of these models which turns the watch into what they are calling a Biformeter essentially is is an add on computer which can display various functions, like a compass, altimeter, barometer and even heart rate. One of the founders, Morten Linde believes: “Analogue is how you read watches. Digital is how you assimilate technical details.” and so they have created this add on to enable you to do this. The technology behind the computer unit is pretty spiffy too including “- A state-of-the-art wireless sensor network allows up to 1 Mbit/second data transfer at a distance of up to 50 metres. The network is compatible with numerous types of sensor and input/output devices.”
Anyway, enough of my rambing, head on over to www.lindewerdelin.com and check them out.
Have a great weekend.
If you haven’t already checked him out, head on over the the Panerai blogger – here’s right there at Paneraiblog.com. Lots of photos and other ‘lifestyle’ items on show.
Lacroix just dropped a big date chrono. Pretty interesting looking. I like the yellow.
Maurice Lacroix Miros Sport [PROFESSIONAL WATCHES]
WatchReport got an email about the Fossil Twist:
“The beauty of a finely crafted automatic timepiece is coupled with the accuracy and reliability of quartz housed in a watchcase that reveals its intricate inner workings to the wearer.”
So it’s a quartz AND auto movement? Ok, cool. But Christian dug a little deeper and discovered that the whole thing was a crazy mishmash involving a quartz movement and an auto movement for show. Absolutely insane.
“As far as the Twist line, it is a quartz driven movement. The automatic part of the watch is just for looks.”
Is Fossil drunk?
The Mystery of the Fossil Twist Series [WatchReport]
Join me in welcoming Steve Greenwood to the WWR fold. He’ll be posting a few stories a week just to keep things fresh on here. He’s a great guy with a love of watches so look out for his work.
We received this product launch e-missive from the Scorpion Watch Company announcing their new Reef Diver. head on over to their site where you can catch a glimpse of it before they drop in December of this year. You can pre-orders yours right now for $799, and the forward thinking folks at Scorpion will let you use PayPal or GoogleCheckout.
Head on over here for more views
John Patterson from Bathy’s sent this e-missive to let us know about their website update – I checked it out and its pretty smart (although I confess to skipping over the Flash intro).
I think the site mirrors Bathy’s bold designs and showcases them in an clean, elegant way.
Head on over and check them out..
“Quick Dispatch to the ‘Ohana……
The long-awaited, anticipated, newly-created, procrastinated, not-quite paginated, FLASH-animated, well-decorated, and with no prices too-inflated – Bathys Hawaii website is FINALLY up.
I’m a bad watch reviewer. Not only am I not updating this site often enough, I’ve been hiding my gems under a bushel, offering up junk like crapola GMTs and monkey-brained divers. Why? Because the watches I love I can’t really review and the watches I review I can’t really love. So I’m torn, WWR fans. Torn.
I present for your inspection the Omega Seamaster Professional 300M 2225.80.00 2599.80.00 Chrono Diver. Every collector chases a dream early on in his career – and often that dream doesn’t jibe with what he or she really wants. You could dig Seikos and then see an Ebel that knocks your socks off. You could love Rolex and then see an Omega that you must have. This watch is my early collector’s grail watch and I am happy to report that it is getting so much wrist time that I think I need to brush it down with rubbing alcohol because it is getting wrist stink.
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Rado has some nice styling, but I think this Dynamic-alike they’re releasing in congunction with the Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup is a bit gimpy. Looks like a quartz piece as well. Read on for the rest of the release.
A very interesting look at some of the most unusual Swiss movements ever, the Tissot cal. 2250 that ran without lubrication. Only the balance wheel and some the the gears were metal, the rest was plastic. Fascinating.
The Tissot cal. 2250, also known as the “Astrolon” or “Sytal”, (an acronym for “Systeme Total d’Autolubrification”) was produced in the early 1970′s. It was available in several variations, with and without calendar. Though it is basically conventional in layout, it is markedly different from other mechanical watches in that most of its components are injection moulded plastic. It was semi-automatically assembled and required no lubrication at all. The parts count was reduced from 91 as found in a standard Swiss movement to 52 in the Astrolon, and no screws are employed at all. The only metal components are the balance assembly, the mainspring and barrel, and the keyless winding mechanism. The train wheels run either in the plastic plates or, mostly, on small metal plugs with fine spigots, pressed into the plates. A nice touch was to make the different components in different colors.
The Tissot “Astrolon” Plastic Watch [4/2/00] [TimeZone]
