Stainless Steel Custom Designed Asian 23J Movement to Match the Genuine IWC 51111 Movement
Panerai Submersible Mike Horn Edition PAM00984 Watch Review
Making a classic design modern, while preserving its core identity, is a serious creative challenge, and one that is regularly attempted in the automotive world, as well as in the wristwatch world. These two industries (as well as a number of other “tools” ranging from cameras to bicycles) are tasked with having to create something that is fresh and novel, while at the same time ensuring that existing fans and the general public can readily recognize the new creation as being an obvious family member to the original. Italian/Swiss watchmaker Panerai is perhaps at the epicenter of this fascinating design struggle as it attempts to push itself into the future while never letting go of a past that continues to define the brand. That said, let’s take a look at the 2019 Panerai Submersible Mike Horn Edition PAM00984 watch that is Panerai’s latest attempt to add some new design language to the often linear brand.It was SIHH 2019 where the best watches team first learn
Ball Engineer Master II Diver Worldtime
To please all you jet-setting divers out there, Ball has announced the newest addition to the Engineer line: the Ball Engineer Master II Diver Worldtime, limited to 1,000 pieces. Ball is no stranger to creating these adventure driven combinations of complications and style, and for this venture they've sought to create a true world-time function inside a dive watch body.The Diver Worldtime has a steel case, and measures in at a 45mm in diameter, with a case height of 15.4mm. These dimensions suggest that it could wear on the larger side, however on paper it seems to be in line with the sizing of other world-time watches from the likes of IWC or Breitling. Ticking along inside the watch is the Ball caliber RR1501, an automatic movement based on the ETA 2836-2. This movement provides the wearer with the world time, but also a day/date complication, with the date displaying at 3 o’clock, and the day displaying at 6 o’clock. I found this placement strange at first, but the more