Blancpain Air Command chronograph steel automatic Kal. F185 Ref. 2285F-1130-71 A Reviews

NEWS WATCHES

Swatch Jeremy Scott Melted Minutes Wrist Watch & Hypnotic Heart Pocket Watch
Swatch’s new resident weirdo designer Jeremy Scott follows up his first collection for the watch brand with another less than a year later. I first discussed the Jeremy Scott collection of watches for Swatch here – focusing on the Lighting Flash Watch that I thought was pretty cool. There are five new ones now, arguably more strange than the first collection.For me the weirdest piece is one done in a sort of naked color tone with a burnt/melted dial. Mr. Scott – wearing strange hair? as always- calls it the Melted Minutes watch. I envision it as art for art’s sake and would see no reason or purpose to wear it. At best it looks a Swatch assembly line production accident. Even with Scott’s ostentatiously unorthodox fashion sense, I don’t see many outfits where this melted dial watch fits the bill at all. Passionate Swatch collector’s might see things differently though.
Armin Strom Tourbillon Gravity Fire Watch With Micro-Rotor
Whatever you may think of the practicality of a tourbillon in a watch, there’s no escaping that they are quite a visual treat to watch while they work away. Normally when a watch has one, though, that’s all you really see of the movement from the dial side. The folks over at Armin Strom give us more of a show, however, as they follow the design direction it’s namesake founder (a Master Skeletonizer) set for the brand 40 years ago. Their latest gives us another treat that I don’t know I’ve ever seen visible from the front of a watch.The trick that the Armin Strom Tourbillon Gravity Fire (ref RG14-TF.M.90) has up its sleeve is a micro-rotor. As you might suspect, a micro-rotor is simply a smaller version of the rotors we’re used to seeing in an automatic watch; these usually lead to a thinner watch than you might normally have as well.