Photo Report: Exploring The 2024 Audrain Newport Concours With A. Lange & Söhne
At a first look, the design impresses us as a sensitive addition not only to AP's museum facilities, but also to the local landscape. Construction has just begun, and while the overall schedule depends on the often unpredictable vagaries of weather in the Vallée, AP falsi piaget orologi hopes to hold welcoming ceremonies in the spring of 2019, if all goes well. You can bet we'll be there when the new museum opens (whenever that happens to be).Both the white and rose gold models feature the grande tapisserie dials, with rhodium-toned and silvered finishes respectively. Each feature a small date aperture at three o'clock and both have center seconds too. The indexes are thin and elongated and add a nice balance to the dial. The only thing that bugs me is the floating “Swiss Made” at the base of the dial – why can't it just be a little lower? But that's really the only thing that bothers me, which is saying something here.While I love me some Royal Oak, I don't consider myself an Offshore kind of guy. I'm not a hater by any means, but the over-the-top aesthetic that proliferated in the collection's mid-2000s years made it hard to appreciate how the Offshore evolved – and in some ways, improved – the Royal Oak's classic looks.G-Shock's GMWB-5000EH-1, dropping today, is based on the same platform as previous GMWB-5000 releases with camo motifs like the G-Shock Full Metal Virtual Armor. Visually rooted in the very first G-Shock model, the iconic DW5000C, the new 5000EH-1 has everything you'd expect of the GMWB-5000 series: shock resistance, solar power, radio control, day of the week, date, month, chronographs, world time, light-up LED display, alarms, and more.MK: It seems that a big part of that is not keeping a narrow definition of what a watch is or should be. The watches on display highlight the fact that you not only combine analog and digital, but often go even further – like a tactile watch with braille indications.
This Galet Square, like all others, is luxe replica horloges 41 mm in diameter, so there is no confusing it for a 50 t0 70-year-old wristwatch. But the size is good, and the extended, screwed lugs on this specific model work well. Oh, and then you turn it over.The cars were clearly the star of the festival, but there’s a quiet sideshow going on among those with a burning fascination with all things mechanical. It doesn’t take place on the course, but rather on the wrist. Beyond the cars, the festival serves as an excuse for enthusiasts to strap on their favorite timepiece, reveling in the notion that there’s a tiny mechanical machine beating away on their person while observing the larger machines running at full tilt on the course.The overall bidding at Sunday's auction confirmed a remark Bacs made at the end of yesterday's auction that “watch collecting has not suffered a bit in COVID times.“ The total result for the three-day sale came to $38.7 million on the sale of 268 lots, Phillips announced.The 1858 GMT Automatic Date – which comes with either a black or blue dial – is meant for world travelers, with an interesting take on the GMT function that involves a window that turns red around the perimeter of the dial to indicate the GMT time, or second time zone being tracked. This leaves the hour and minute hand totally visible. It's a small design detail that actually has a large impact on the overall aesthetic of the dial. It's clean and legible.When you graduate school you think you've learned a lot, Cools said. “But when you leave to work in a workshop, you realize how much you still have to learn. In school, you learn watchmaking skills, but you don't learn how to be independent.”
Photographing vintage watches at HODINKEE is a challenge in the best sense. The tones of tropical dials and color casts of vintage cases need to be matched with care and precision, and in the case of this Day-Date, the white gold was not a pure grey but over time had turned a slight champagne billige gucci ure color. Not quite grey, not quite yellow – I knew I had to nail the color.The event is on Monday, February 1, 2021, from 7:00-9:00 PM Eastern Time (U.S. and Canada) via Zoom Webinar.HSNY lectures will be streamed live via Zoom for the foreseeable future, with no in-person gatherings. Webinar registration is required. All HSNY lectures are free and open to the public, and all are recorded. Recorded lectures are made available to HSNY members immediately, and the general public with a two-month delay.HODINKEE is a sponsor of the Horological Society of New York.The Arnie's chops alone make this watch cool. When you strap on the watch you feel like you could walk onto the set of Predator (where the watch appears) and do some real damage. Its all-black case, dive-time bezel, and toolish charm make it indescribably attractive despite its hulkish – nearly 48mm wide – case diameter. As James Stacey once said when reviewing this piece, “It's like '80s tech pushed its way onto the dial of an SKX007.” Does a watch get cooler than that? I say no.Yesterday may not have gone New England's way, but they're certainly the only team – league-wide – that brought this level of real horological heat onto the field (even if it was from a legendary, soon-to-be HOF-inducted, former player). This watch garnered a ton of attention from our friends on social media yesterday (special shout-out to Nick and Craig) so the outcome of the game was truly secondary.With a bright silver-toned dial, this Piaget is elegantly simple. Slender hour markers and matching hands ensure excellent legibility while maintaining a clean and uncluttered appearance. The minimalist design is accentuated by the absence of a date window, focusing attention on the purity of the time display and the asymmetrical small seconds function.Bidder beware: If you haven't clocked it by now, this Decagon at Clars is fitted with what appears to be a later Cartier service dial. It hurts the value but does not make it any less rare. Bid accordingly!