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Habring2 Benzinger 5-Minute Repeater Watch
A few years ago, owner of Australian retailer Define Watches, Peter Petzold, envisioned a five-minute repeater watch that would take advantage of the utmost in technical mastery while displaying an equal dose of old-world craftsmanship that is so often overlooked in the digital age. His vision led to the collaboration of Habring2‘s Richard and Maria Habring and Jochen Benzinger, world-renowned watch?engraver and decorator. With two vastly different approaches to horological creation, the result is a fascinating combination of restraint and sophistication in the form of the?Habring2 Benzinger 5-Minute Repeater for Define Watches.Richard Habring, the man behind the?IWC?Doppel Chronograph, partners with his wife Maria in creating understated pieces from their manufacture in Austria (that we visited here). I should also mention now that he and his wife are part of a five-person team that creates their own in-house movements. With an approach in style that leans toward the minimalisti
New Breitling Navitimer 8 Watch Collection
After several weeks of teasers posted on its official social media channels, Breitling has at last launched the new Breitling Navitimer 8 collection with a variety of models. Today’s Navitimer 8 collection is a nod to that extensive heritage as well as all that the Navitimer is loved for like its reliable movements and masculine case-while the busy dials appear to have taken a lesser role in this new, vintage-inspired spin on the Navitimer. A clear message from new Breitling head Georges Kern is the decision to forego Breitling’s winged-B logo for the older simple B logo. This new collection is made up of five watches: the Navitimer 8 B01; the Navitimer 8 Unitime; Navitimer 8 Chronograph; Navitimer 8 Day & Date; and the Navitimer 8 Automatic. Worthy of note and bordering on sacrilege here is the fact that three out of the five Navitimer 8 watches are not chronographs leading to the question: should this just have been a new collection altogether?The Navitimer 8 is named