Of all the special editions, this is one that the crew of Apollo 13 would immediately recognize as the one they wore and the one that earned the special award. We're essentially talking about an obscure version of an already obscure product in hand-executed form, which doesn't sound like the sort of thing to be going unnoticed, if you ask me. The Cosmograph Daytona is equipped with self-winding caliber 4131 (first released last year), the movement features bridges decorated with Rolex Côtes de Genève and a cut-out oscillating weight. Caliber 4131 enables the standard measuring of intervals of time via the chronograph function, in addition to displaying the hours, minutes and seconds. The power reserve extends to approximately 72 hours. If you're not in New York City, Stephen wrote a fantastic piece on this very clock way back in 2013 that will make you feel as if you're right there, standing at the intersection of Maiden Lane and Broadway, looking down and imagining what this landmark of lower Manhattan might have seen over the years. As the name suggests, this one is quite thin at just 9mm and features the caliber 896 under the hood. Sometimes a watch just working on all cylinders. This is one such watch. I can't remember when it was that I first saw Urban Jürgensen's watches, but I suspect it was sometime in the very early 2000s. It might very well have been on that irreplaceable treasure trove of early classic online watch photography, Steve G's Watch Launchpad, some time around 2002 or 2003; the watch in question being a lovely Ref. 8, with a black dial.

The final lot that stood out to me in the Geneva Watch Auction: XV is lot 276, a special Lange 1 ref. 101.027 from A. Lange & Söhne that's cased in white gold with a silvered dial and heat-blued hands. It shares a similar aesthetic to the famous and highly collectible stainless steel Lange 1 examples, except it's in a more traditional precious metal. It's an aesthetic that's almost unique to the watch space, and reminds me of the way certain fashion brands behave and create with a (albeit somewhat calculated) carefree nonchalance, "we make what we like, subscribe if you like, ignore if you don't. We tend to glorify the heroic actions of soldiers on the battlefield that earned an Allied victory during WWII, and to an extent, the actions it takes to maintain the position as a global hegemon in the modern world, but looking into the history of this specific watch served as a reminder of the high price once paid right here at home. The acquisition of MVMT will provide us greater access to millennials and advances our Digital Center of Excellence initiative with the addition of a powerful brand managed by a successful team of highly creative, passionate and talented individuals, Movado Chairman and CEO Efraim Grinberg said in a statement. It would be easy to mistake this 6542 with a converted bezel for an early reference 1675. By the time of the aforementioned 1961 lawsuit, Rolex had already recalled the Bakelite bezel. The watch that we have here, with its nicely tropicalized dial, was born with Bakelite, but that bezel was ultimately replaced with the metal insert we see here as a result of a recall.

replica oris watches Moment to moment you don't quite notice it, but as a new hour nears, the minute hand seems to chase the hour hand, eventually catching up and meeting in the same spot at the top of each hour. Likewise, at the bottom of each hour, the hands sit in perfect opposition like in the image below. The watch isn't without precedent. In 2002, Rolex introduced a series of bright colors called the "Daytona Beach" series. It's been a guilty pleasure series for me—completely unlike what I'd wear, but fun to imagine myself being a "Daytona Beach" dude. In the same way that the new 126518LN doesn't use actual turquoise for the dial, neither does the ref.