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Ulysse Nardin Marine Tourbillon Watch Review
The Ulysse Nardin Marine Tourbillon is a sensible daily-wear watch that includes an affordable (relatively speaking) in-house-made tourbillon movement in the long-standing and successful Ulysse Nardin Marine watch collection. No one actually needs a tourbillon, but it feels good to wear one. The wristwatch tourbillon is a product category that requires little introduction to watch collectors and even those who only tangentially know about the luxury wristwatch market have heard that “tourbillons mean money.” In 2019, tourbillon still means “money,” but thanks to a lot of aggressive competition, a Swiss tourbillon no longer requires as much money. What was once a roughly $100,000 purchase ordeal is now available from serious brands like Ulysse Nardin for under $30,000.TAG Heuer currently has the claim for the least expensive Swiss-Made tourbillon in watches that include their Heuer 02-T Tourbillon Automatic Chronograph movements. Ulysse Nardin’s entry-level
Singer Track 1 Is A $40,000 Watch From The Porsche Car Modifier
The Singer Track 1 (aka Track 1) is an unlikely product the likes of which the current watch industry needs. Representative of how collaborative projects in the high-end timepiece industry should work, the Singer Track 1 is a totally new timepiece with the brand name of a well-esteemed and very exclusive Porsche car modifier based in Los Angeles, California. It is at Singer Vehicle Design’s San Fernando Valley headquarters – a mere few miles from where I grew up – that I met with some of the team responsible for the Singer Reimagined Track 1 chronograph. It’s not everyday that a fresh (and destined to be rare) watch is launched almost in your backyard.All images by Ariel AdamsEverything about the Singer Track 1 watch makes sense if you look at the product creation’s story and team responsible for making the project happen. The story begins with watch designer Marco Borraccino, who had a vision of a watch which promoted chronograph reading legibility and th