Alain Silberstein Bolidame automatic Reviews

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Vacheron Constantin Metiers d'Art Savoirs Enlumines Watches With 'Illuminated' Dials
The Vacheron Constantin Metiers d'Art Savoirs Enlumines Watches are raising the in-house bar for one of horology’s most respected players. In the past, the Vacheron Constantin?Metiers d'Art watches have impressed with their stunning visuals and their stubborn insistence on maintaining the craft skills of yore. Grand Feu enamel, precious gems, hand-engraving, and guilloche patterns?have illuminated dials that often stick in your mind’s eye. When it comes to?illumination, however, it is the latest range from Vacheron Constantin that takes things to a new level. The?Vacheron Constantin Metiers d'Art Savoirs Enlumines watches with “illuminated” dials take their design cues from the Aberdeen Beastiary-a 12th century text that contains a wide range of human knowledge and beliefs from the period.Effectively a device to represent an entire paragraph, an illumination in this sense is an image placed at the beginning of a body of text. These are most often seen in histori
Parmigiani Ovale Pantographe Watch Hands-On
This year at SIHH, I had the?chance to finally?have my first personal encounter with what to me is a very?unique and technically impressive timepiece; one which has actually been around for a few years now: the Parmigiani Ovale Pantographe. There are two major reasons why I have anticipated?this rendezvous?so much. First and foremost, the pantograph hands and seeing how they worked, and second-because I knew I would love the engineering, but?really wasn’t sure about the overall design-seeing and trying the watch on to determine how it worked as a complete package. So please allow me now to tell you?how?this very personal meeting-with just the rest of our SIHH?team and another 4-5 people from the brand-went down.I have to start with the hands, I really do. Had they been fitted to an Invicta, I would still very much care about this construction. Individually cut from titanium with a mixture of water and nitrogen to a tolerance smaller than 4 microns, they are super light and super