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Rare Universal Geneve Super Diver Watch From When Quartz Was Cool
Back in the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s, it was all about luxury quartz watches. Brands would proudly adorn the “Quartz” identifier on their watches. At the time, Quartz was seen as a successor to mechanical watches for its obvious advantages in terms of accuracy, cost, and simplicity. Well, most of us know what happened in the late 90’s due to the efforts of a few key luxury brands, and the resurgence of the mechanical watch, buts lets focus on a time before that happened.Now look at this wonderful examples of a Swiss Quartz watch, from what is likely the heyday of the Quartz watch movement. The Universal Geneve Super Diver is a Rolex Submariner homage watch, with it’s own little style twist. Most notable, are the raised gold-plated sections of the bezel that add that ‘golden class’ the 80’s so very much needed! They aren’t very functional, but they look nice.
Jaquet Droz The Bird Repeater Watch + Video
I sat here pondering possible “bird” puns and idioms that might apply to an opening statement for discussing this extremely high-end and limited minute repeater automaton – and they all just felt really silly. No jokes need apply because this is a rather cool and serious timepiece by Jaquet Droz that allows you to use your imagination in making up your own nicknames for the Swiss brand’s new “The Bird Repeater” timepiece.A couple of days ago we shared with you a?sneak, first-look at The Bird Repeater here. Finally ready for debut, the watch has been the subject of several years of development and a dream for the brand which painstakingly searches for novel ways to connect the modern Jaquet Droz with that of the past. The result is a limited edition of just 16 watches that Jaquet Droz coins as being a “true automaton” with technology dating back to the “age of enlightenment.”