Je voudrais utiliser cette semaine Fratello vendredi pour faire une supposition éclairée sur une nouvelle montre que Omega est susceptible de présenter au cours de Baselworld 2015 plus tard ce mois-ci.Presque chaque année, Omega introduit une limitée ou édition spéciale Omega Speedmaster pour commémorer les réalisations historiques de la NASA dans lequel une Speedmaster a été impliqué.
Par exemple, tous lescinq ans, Omega introduit une Speedmaster Professional Apollo XI édition limitée anniversaire pour commémorer le débarquement sur la lune en 1969. L'an dernier, il a été l'édition Omega Speedmaster Professional Apollo XI 45e anniversaire (nous avons couvert ici), limitée à (naturellement ) 1.969 pièces.
Donc, enpassant par la liste des missions Apollo, nous voyons que Omega aurait seulement quelques jalons pour commémorer en 2015. Il y a la mission Apollo XIII 1970 et 1975 mission Apollo-Soyouz.J'ai eu aussi un coup d'oeil dans lesmissions de lanavette spatiale, (pour lequel l'Omega Speedmaster aobtenu re-certifié;? (Rappelez -vous quenous avons trouvé un des 56 morceaux ici), mais ce ne fut pas avant 1981 que la navette spatiale première (STS- 1) mission a eu lieu.
Depuis Omega afait une édition limitée Apollo-Soyouz en 2009, avec un beau cadran de météorite (nous avons examiné ceicietici) - et en fait avait déjà fait d'autres en 1975 (500 pièces seulement, nous enavons parléici), et lesversions d'or en 1995 (250 pièces) et 2000 (50 pièces), je pense que Omega va baisser une nouvelle mission enédition limitée Apollo 13 sur nous cette année.
Maintenant, officiellement, Omega apublié une édition limitée pour commémorer la mission Apollo XIII en 1995, et utilisé la même montre pour les célèbrescas de mission blanc(50 pièces au total).Le modèle de 1995 a été limitée (et numérotée) à 999 exemplaires seulement.Je disofficiellement, parce qu'unofficieux,mais très Apollo XIII liés, lemodèle est sorti en 2003: l'Omega Speedmaster Professional ". Snoopy Award" Je suis un peu dans le noir pour expliquer pourquoi Omega achoisi cette année pour présenter cette montre, mais je ferai ensorte de demander Omega à Bâle.
L'Omega Speedmaster Professional 'Snoopy' est un très convoité Speedmaster moderne.Je l'ai fait une écriture sur lafaçon dont Snoopy afini sur le cadran d'une Speedmaster dans un article pour WatchTime.com, qui peut être trouvéici.
Je possède en fait les deux l'Omega Speedmaster Professional Apollo XIII et le modèle Snoopy Award, et chérir les deux.Alors que la montre Snoopy nous raconte l'histoire de l'accident au cours de la mission Apollo XIII en 1970 dans lequel un Speedmaster est venu à la rescousse, 1995 Omega Speedmaster Professional Apollo XIII montre simplement une (belle) pièce de mission sur le cadran.
Jusqu'à présent, si l'on regarde les modèles de la mission Apollo XI, nous ne avons vu une pièce de mission à 3 heures, sur la version Case Missions Costume de 1998 (ici est celui qui a été vendu séparément, cependant).Nous avons également des modèles Apollo XI avec une inscription dans la bande de cas, que sur le fond du boîtier ou à l'aide de l'argent ou des médaillons même or sur le cadran.Le 45e anniversaire modèle Apollo XI n'a pas eu quoi que ce soit se référant à la mission sur le cadran, il était juste un tout autre exécution de la célèbre «Moonwatch», avec son boîtier en titane et Sedna lunette en or.
Donc, en d'autres termes, les chances sont très minces que Omega utilisera simplement le patch officiel de la mission de la NASA Apollo XIII à nouveau.L'une des possibilités est que Omega utilisera le Snoopy Award à nouveau comme l'aspect commémoratif.Ce serait soit le rendre "seulement" une Omega Speedmaster Professional Apollo XIII 45e anniversaire ou un professionnel "Snoopy Award," Omega Speedmaster la version 2. Je ne peux pas imaginer ce dernier, car il confond les gens.Ma meilleure estimation serait qu'il deviendra l'Omega Speedmaster Professional Apollo XIII 45e édition anniversaire, je l'espère avec une image Snoopy quelque part.Si Omega décide en effet d'inclure Snoopy quelque part, j'espère que la société va le faire aussi avec goût, comme il a fait avec l'édition Snoopy Award 2003.Cette édition limitée est particulièrement une montre de ma collection personnelle que je chéris.
Over the weekend, WatchTime magazine held its first annualWatchTime New Yorkevent, dedicated to fine timepieces, with a long list of top watch brand exhibitors such as A. Lange & Söhne, Armin Strom, Ball, Bell & Ross, Blancpain, Breguet, Carl F. Bucherer, Emmanuel Bouchet, F.P. Journe, Grand Seiko, MeisterSinger, Moritz Grossmann, Mühle, Nomos Glashutte, Pierre DeRoche, Porsche Design, RGM, Seiko, Tutima, Ulysse Nardin, and Visconti.
WatchTime New York 2015 took place at Gotham Hall, an upscale and historic venue in the heart of Midtown (at 36th Street and 6th Ave). From Corinthian columns to granite walls and marble floors to a 7-story ballroom topped with domed ceiling with a 3,000 square foot stained glass skylight set in the center – the majestic backdrop of Gotham Hall perfectly highlighted the sophisticated audience and luxurious timepieces being exhibited.
In addition to meeting directly with brand representatives, looking at, and even buying timepieces, guests enjoyed hospitality from BMW, Delta, and the SLH Hotel Group. Furthermore, there was a full open bar with premium cocktails and gourmet food on Friday, and a whisky tasting with Instagram star, Anish Bhatt, of @WatchAnish on Saturday. Bhatt enjoyed mingling with guests and answering questions about watch collecting while attendees enjoyed 15-year old single-malt whisky from The Dalmore.
With watch-industry brand executives, journalists, bloggers, and RedBar Crew members, all in attendance, there is no other show in the U.S. where you can gain this level of access to so many watch decision makers. Scroll down to see photos taken over the two days of WatchTime New York.
WatchTime’s publisher, Sara Orlando, is already looking ahead to 2016. “With the success of WatchTime New York 2015, we are already discussing strategy for next year’s show. We hope to welcome additional watch brands and offer the collectors even more special features and educational presentations from our experts.”
l-r: Anish Bhatt, WatchTime EIC Joe Thompson, publisher Sara Orlando, collector and brand consultant Jeff Kingston
Jeff Kingston giving demonstration
A guest models the Breguet Tradition Independent Chronograph 7077
Famous Italian Pen maker Visconti making a push into the US market with its new watch collection
For those watch enthusiasts who know Eterna primarily as the brand that gave us ETA — that movement-making colossus that has supplied engines to thousands of watch models over the decades — this year brings a reminder that the Eterna watch brand (not at all associated with ETA parent Swatch Group) remains a going concern. In 2016, the brand celebrates 160 years of watchmaking, albeit with a dizzying number of ownership changes over the years and long swaths of time when U.S. distribution was practically nonexistent. Eterna’s current owner, Citychamp Watch and Jewellery Group, LTD, which also owns Corum — is determined to make the anniversary a special one, with a number of new releases, including a limited-editionskeleton watch.Among Eterna’s other new launches this year is a chronograph version of the Super KonTiki, a modern, contemporarily sized version of the divers’ watch that the brand put on the horological map back in 1947.
If youarefamiliar with Eterna as a watch brand, it is likely because of the original KonTiki, which, some maintain, has earned a place in the pantheon of iconic dive watches alongside the Rolex Submariner, Blancpain Fifty Fathoms, Omega Ploprof, and other deep-sea trailblazers. It is named for the wooden raft that Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl sailed across the ocean on his legendary 1947 expedition from South America to Polynesia — a journey on which Heyerdahl and his crew all wore Eterna wristwatches. (The raft, in turn, was named after an Inca sun god.) The watches’ durability, water-resistance, and timekeeping performance on the 8,000-mile nautical trek inspired Eterna’s watchmakers to create the classical forebear of this timepiece, a model that has been a mainstay of Eterna’s collection, in various incarnations, ever since. And while I did nothing more adventurous with the Super KonTiki Chronograph Manufacture than wear it during a rainstorm, I had a fine opportunity to get up close and personal with it during my two-week loan period.
Aficionados of classic dive watches will instantly recognize The Super KonTiki Chronograph’s overall look, with a dial dominated by large, triangular hour indices, the top one at 12 o’clock decorated by the brand’s logo of five “balls” arranged in a pentagon. (For those who are curious, this logo design is a visual reference to the five ball bearings of Eterna’s groundbreaking “Eterna-matic” self-winding watch movement, elements whose strategic placement in the mechanism significantly reduced friction and resistance on the winding rotor, thus reducing wear and tear on internal parts and increasing the accuracy — a technical milestone for which the company has been justly lauded by horophiles.) The emblem also appears, subtly, as an engraving on the screw-down crown.
The 45-mm-diameter stainless steel case (which designates the watch as “Super,” differentiating it from the regular KonTiki models, at 42 mm) boasts a high level of finishing: brushed on the upper surface of the case, which flows into the sloping lugs, followed by a middle layer of polished finish, then more brushed finishing on the main body of the curving caseband, then more polishing on the lower surface. Add the obligatory notched, rotating diver’s bezel on top, and the brushed-finish, screwed caseback with flat sapphire window, and the Super KonTiki clocks in at a relatively hefty 16 mm thick. Strapping the watch onto the wrist, however, most will find that neither the diameter nor the thickness feel particularly unwieldy. The wrist-hugging ergonomic curve of the case helps here, as does the fact that both crystals (front and back) are flat rather than domed.
A closer look at the bezel reveals its attractive, shiny insert with 60-minute diving scale, made of aluminum. The rather large, eminently legible Arabic numerals at the 10-minute marks make an appealing contrast to the lack of any numerals on the dial. The bezel rotates in one direction (if you need to ask why, you’re probably not that into divers’ watches and you’ll probably want to avoid actually diving with one) and makes an audible clicking sound as it moves in one-minute increments to set dive time — or, in fact, any other interval you’d want to time.
As far as nighttime legibility (or, for that matter, the underwater depth legibility that the watch’s designers almost certainly had in mind), that’s also one for the win column: a generous amount of Super-LumiNova is applied to the hands, hour indices, and the 12 o’clock triangle on the bezel. The period in which I wore this watch happened to be a stretch of scorching heat and bright sunshine in New York City, so these dial elements soaked up plenty of light to illuminate the wee hours.
Of course, why bother using the divers’ bezel to time events when you have a top-notch flyback chronograph built into this watch as well? A light push of the plunger-style pusher at 2 o’clock starts and stops the central, arrow-tipped counter hand, while the subdial at 3 o’clock tallies elapsed hours/minutes. Another push on the pusher at 4 o’clock returns both hands to zero (12 o’clock.) Conversely, if you’re timing simultaneous events, the flyback function allows the wearer to use the top pusher to start timing, press the second pusher to return the hand to zero and instantly start timing another interval, and so on and so forth until you stop the hand with the top pusher and return it to zero with the bottom pusher.
The movement powering all these functions — and earning the model its “Manufacture” suffix — is Eterna’s Caliber 3916A, one of dozens of variations on the brand’s modular base movement, Caliber 39, with automatic winding and a long power reserve of 65 hours from a single mainspring barrel. (Eterna says that fully 70 percent of the movement parts are manufactured at its headquarters in the Swiss town of Grenchen.) The somewhat axe-like rotor is microblasted and enhanced with circularcôtes de Genève; Eterna’s ball-bearings emblem is once again in evidence, engraved in the center of the rotor itself as well as around its pivot point in the center. The circular Geneva wave motif continues on the rhodium plated bridges and plate under the rotor, and tilting the watch in a certain way so that the rotor is off to the side reveals an attractive arrangement of brightly blued screws that almost reminded me of a constellation. Also of note: the use of a column wheel (pictured, third photo down) to control the chronograph functions indicates that Eterna is catering to chronograph purists as well as serious dive watch enthusiasts with this piece.
I was never quite able to confirm the 65-hour power reserve, as the watch stopped unexpectedly a few times while I was wearing it. I can only chalk this up to a quirk that tends to plagues some watches with screw-down multiple-position crowns: because the winding system itself is so quiet, I was at times not sure if I was actually winding the mainspring or simply turning the uncoupled crown in between setting positions. It could be that it wasn’t getting enough winding to actually build up enough power for the long haul. I eventually took to giving the watch a few good shakes of the wrist (it is an automatic, after all) after each winding of the crown as a backup power source.
The rubber strap is straightforward on the top side – matte on the outer edges with an inset middle stripe with a subtly gritty texture. On the other side is a wavy pattern that I can only assume is inspired by this model’s history in the underwater depths. The watch is quite comfortable on the wrist, though the very sporty look of the strap might strike some as a bit incongruous with a suit or dress shirt. The pin buckle is also tool-watch simple, with just the ball-bearings logo engraved on the buckle. The alternating brushed and polished finishes of the case are also echoed here on a smaller, more subtle scale.
Overall, the Eterna Super KonTiki Chronograph makes a fine wrist companion, albeit one more suited to business casual than black tie, and one certain to identify you as an in-the-know connoisseur of important dive watches. And the chance to acquire a timepiece with an in-house flyback chronograph movement, in addition to its historical pedigree, for a relatively reasonable $4,700 ($4,900 for the version with a steel Milanese bracelet), might strike some as one too good to pass up.
Aujourd'hui est le numéro 27 dans ma collection de montres de Storm, et est une conception relativement simple, donc je pense que ce soit un court message.
Ce modèle est appelé Transit, et est une montre analogique à quartz. Il dispose d'un design du cadran 3 à la main, avec un design pour le visage et les mains qui est très reconnaissable comme une tempête (mais il est difficile d'expliquer exactement pourquoi).
Le visage est entouré par une lunette semi-transparent bleu qui a été moulé avec les numéros de minutes (en 5 de) avec le nom de tempête au lieu de zéro. La lunette tourne en fait, ce qui est une surprise car il semble purement décoratif. L'affaire est en acier inoxydable, avec une vis sur le dos, et a une cote de résistance à l'eau de 50m.
Le bracelet est inhabituel pour une montre Storm, étant une conception bracelet plus solide. Il comporte des sections métalliques (plaque métallique enroulée autour du noyau en plastique) avec des cales en plastique bleu inbetween chaque segment. Cela rend le bracelet assez raide, mais aussi cela signifie qu'il doit être coupé à la taille (alors assurez-vous qu'il est assez grand si vous achetez un de seconde main).
Je ne l'ai pas trouvé une date pour la montre, mais de sa conception que je suppose qu'il est un modèle plus récent de la fin des années 2000 ou au début des 10s.
