Sexy sexy. Here’s a full cavalcade of erotic watches from multiple makers including impressive work from Ulysses Nardin and some no-name brand featuring the 12 positions of lurve.
cualquier hora es buena para… [Sexculptures]
Jaquet Droz is a brand based on drawings by one of the first robotics experts in the world, Jaquet Droz who designed many clockwork automatons and a number of watches. Their most famous piece is the big-seconds, the Grande Seconde. We got to see a few of their goodies at the show last week.
Above we see the new collection including a ladies model, the Fleur Du Temps, on the right.
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First up in our exclusive trip to the Swatch Group’s Basel Show… Glashutte. First off, the handmade aviator you see before you is only about $8900 with big date and $4900 without. This means that any one of us can own a truly hand-made timepiece for less than the price of used Crown Victoria. Not too bad.
The Senator Navigator hearkens back to Glashutte’s experience as a munitions maker during a certain uncomfortable era in German history. Both models, with or without the big date, are automatics and have a completely manufactured movement.
Next, we have the PanoNavigator. OH. MY. GOD!
Vulcain is working on a new line of classic pieces made of precious medals. Called the Golden Voice, they’re much fancier than the GMT models we all know and love. Be thankful that Vulcain isn’t making showers…
Vulcain Golden voice – new luxury brand story [Luxury Gadgets]
My buddy Amit lives in Nigeria now and just bought a Vulcain Cricket GMT to celebrate a new job. He wrote a bit about his experience and it was quite moving.
I tell you what, buying the Vulcain was a real
extravagance but I didn’t do it on a whim. I’ve always known that I would
buy a nice watch at some point and when I saw the thing in a shop window I
knew that would be the one. I then made an agreement with Claire that I
would only buy it if/when I got my next job. So that watch waited for me
in that shop window for five months. In fact, although we then bought the
watch when my new job had been agreed in principle, I didn’t wear it until
the paperwork had been completed and that took another three months!! I
had my wife hide it in the house and then had to try and forget about it.
It was agony!!
A fellow over at the Big Watch Forum purchased the following watches, just for kicks, because he’s getting older and does things in fours now:
More power to him.
My latest acquisitions. I do it in 4 because Im older and my time to wait is shot. [BigWatchForum]
This is not your mom’s Seiko. This thing is a Spring Drive Seiko with hourly Japanese chime. It’s completely hand-made and hand-assembled and costs, well, lots.
As befits a watch of such intricacy and sophistication, the strike hammer is visible through the dual surface curved sapphire crystal. The case itself is crafted from 18-karat pink gold, which not only reflects the value of the movement but assists the purity of the sound of the chime. On the mainspring barrel of the bell mechanism, a cutout Japanese bellflower (Kikyo flower in Japanese) drifts down on a river, symbolizing the continuous flow of time. The Japanese bellflower is chosen because it is the flower of the city where the Micro Artist Studio is located.
Amazing.
The Credor Spring Drive Sonnerie Pure Sound, Pure Motion, Pure Perfection [TimeZone]
It is rare to find a U.S. watchmaker who cares as much about his products as David McReady of D.Freemont watches. In a market full of cheap quartz and high profits, McCready is what is known in the business as a “nice guy” and a “shrewd businessman.”
The latest piece in his collection, the D.Freemont Sapphire Power Reserve Diver, caught my eye immediately. Strangely enough, it’s not a beefy diver nor does it look like it belongs on the dashboard of a semi. Instead, it is a staid, clever piece using a high-quality 2892 ETA movement and two excellent complications rouded out by a strong aesthetic that harkens from another, simpler era.
Something old, something new. Something borrowed, something made of high tech materials. Patek is currently using some amazing materials in their movements. Sure, it’s not “fancy” but it will definitely save on repairs down the line.
It was about one year ago that Patek Philippe introduced their new calibre with a high tech silicon escape wheel. The idea behind the new escape wheel was to eliminate the need for oiling the pallet stones, a long standing scourge of the lever escapement. This year Patek has attacked another area of the watch escapement with yet another development from their Advanced Research department. The hair-spring, or “spiral” in French, has presented its own set of challenges from the beginning.
Patek Philippe Spiromax [TimeZone]
I never was in love with TAG Heuer, but these new chronographs are making my ears perk up. You’ve got two new models here, a new SLR and a new Carrera. The Carrera is the standard Heuer chrono, kind of avant garde, kind of traditional, but the SLR has some great lines.
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If you’re in New York and have a $200K or so to spend, why not pick up one of these Blancpain signature pieces.
In keeping with the brand’s 270-year tradition of innovation, this new model celebrates the brand’s boutique with a full calendar display (day, month, date) and moon phase indicator.
Perhaps most striking about the new watch is the half-hunter case back which opens to reveal the beautiful hand-engraved movement.
Full release after the jump.
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TimeZone has some great shots of the new 5960P Calendar with leap year indicator and all sorts of goodies. I hate the hands, though. Does anyone else feel the same way?
Full release after the jump.
NEW Patek chrono/calendar/auto caliber, ref. 5960P! [TimeZone]
Ming at 
WatchRap has some striking shots of a Gerald Genta jump hour. I like Genta, as a whole, but sometimes they get ugly. This one has all the parts in the right place.
Gerald Genta Retrograde Jump Hour! [WatchRap]
I’m thinking this Omega ain’t that hot, but it’s a nice concept. It’s basically a retread of a 1915 piece using caliber 2200 inside a rose gold case.
This Omega Museum watch is an absolute stunner. A limited [1915 pieces] reedition of the 1915 Omega Petrograd watch, featuring the omega caliber 2200 and in Red gold on a leather strap with reference number of 5703.30.0 it is part of Omega’s museum line of classic re-issues.
Omega Museum Watch [OmegaBlogger]
In an effort to find an inexpensive, vintage chronograph, I’ve been hunting on Ebay for Sorna watches. The Sorna brand, which was once a relatively powerful figure in the mechanical industry – laid to waste, obviously, by the flood of cheap quartz pieces in the 1980s – is now being used to flog those selfsame cheap quartz pieces that I had no interest in. The only other Sorna piece I could find, then, was a nasty world time watch that looked like Captain America had just gotten over some constipation. Therefore, I was stuck with considering Jacky Ickx bullhead chronos. Instead of a Jacky Ickx, however, I just picked up just an “Icky” Sorna chronograph that has a certain, if dubious, charm.
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