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Girard-Perregaux 1957 Gyromatic Watch
Let’s all wish Girard-Perregaux a happy 225th birthday and share?a virtual cake, right along with a closer look at this beautiful tribute to the brand’s Gyromatic watches from the 1960s. The Girard-Perregaux 1957 Gyromatic watch pays stylistic tribute to early models that used a technical solution by Girard-Perregaux to improve automatic winding efficiency from around the time when “self-winding” was the hot thing in watches. If you are a fan of simple, classically styled watches as I am, then you too will likely find the Girard-Perregaux 1957 Gyromatic an exciting visual treat.Girard-Perregaux’s Gyromatic system substituted roller-equipped unidirectional clutches for ratchet wheels, the brand explains. The point was to reduce idle travel of the oscillating weight and thereby increase efficiency. The 2016 model is called the “1957” because that was the year that the technology was first used in a movement, even though the design is based on a s
Parmigiani Toric Quaestor Labyrinthe Watch Hands-On
Pretty much any timepiece from Parmigiani Fleurier that has the term "Toric"in the title is going to be spectacular. This watch is the Toric Quaestor Labyrinthe (that I will refer to as merely "Labyrinthe"), a limited edition of five pieces set for 2013. These pieces rank toward the top of the Parmigiani wrist watch ladder. They are very limited in their production, and a symbol of the artful in-house made movements as well as what can be realized in their cases and dials by offering traditional, but uniquely designed high-end timepieces.The Labyrinthe name comes from the maze-like design of the dial-even though it is more or less a series of concentric circles produced as a result of the sandwiched two-part dial. It is really the dial that attracted me to the watch. It is produced from an upper level of 18k white gold, with additional applied polished hour markers, the beveled edging on the white gold layer are hand-polished. Under that is a layer of rare and precious green Burmese ja