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De Bethune DB28 Skybridge Watch Hands-On
De Bethune creates some of the most unique looking and distinctive watches on the market today. With a stellar aesthetic and standout case design, the new Skybridge is an interesting addition to their DB28 range of watches. The DB28 Skybridge employs the same skeletonized floating lugs and twelve o’clock crown placement seen on other models in the DB28 family, but offers a less complicated dial arrangement with an artful interpretation of the De Bethune design language.The Skybridge offers a duality of modernism and elegance that has the look of a dressy Linde Werdelin, meant to be worn to a gala ball, on the moon. The Skybridge features a 43 mm polished titanium case with a 45 mm matched bezel. The case looks lovely but is entirely upstaged by the dial, also based in blued and polished titanium, which mimics a view of the night sky and is garnished with a selection of polished titanium balls (acting as mid-dial hour markers) and diamonds. There is a minute track surrounding the
Blancpain Villeret Quanti¨¨me Annuel GMT Watch
For Baselworld 2016, Blancpain?is introducing a stainless steel version of their?Villeret Quantieme Annuel GMT watch,?providing a cleaner and more contemporary look. When I’ve looked at this watch in passing as someone rather fond of GMT complications, it took me some time to figure out why the?Blancpain Villeret Quantieme Annuel GMT just wasn’t giving me the same feeling I get from most GMT watches.?Then something clicked in my conscious, and I was sucked in.?Basically, it’s because this is a GMT watch that, well, does not look like a GMT watch.?Without that additional central hand and accompanying scale, it would be easy to misinterpret?the GMT sub dial at 8 o’clock as a sub-seconds dial. Of course, the lack of movement and the scale betrays that, but still…For me, that is the hook with the?Blancpain Villeret Quantieme Annuel GMT, in that it sort of hides it’s functionality in plain sight. Then we get into the other complications on the watch.?Alon