Girard Perregaux Vintage steel automatic Kal. 3000-870 Ref. 2594 Reviews

NEWS WATCHES

UTS GMT 1000M Watch
There are a lot of boutique dive watches available right now, many sporting the same cases, dials and movements. Smaller companies can’t afford the cost of a custom design, so after a while many look the same. UTS, on the other hand, makes its own cases from steel ingots; you’ll not see their designs used elsewhere. An interesting mix of angular lugs and round body, the UTS cases wrap nicely around the wrist and have a massive 5mm bracelet as a matching option.UTS has recently announced a new addition to the 1000m line, the 1000m GMT using the ETA 2893 movement. Otherwise the same as the diver Ariel reviewed, (Ed. – readers, please note that contributor Paul Hubbard wrote this article) the 24h hand and small UTC track really add to the appeal of this watch. Available in a variety of dial and hand colors, the high-contrast white on black really does it for me.
Gronefeld Parallax 1912 Tourbillon Watch
Thus far, the independent Dutch watch brand of Gronefeld had two distinctly different watches in their portfolio: their debut piece from 2008, which is a highly complicated and rather crazy-looking minute repeater tourbillon, and the One Hertz?from 2010, which thanks to its unique design dead-beat seconds hand procured the attention of watch enthusiasts.?But that was four years ago, and so it was just about time that they showed us a new piece, something that illustrated what direction the brand has been taking. The answer to that question was revealed at Baselworld 2014 in the form of the Parallax Tourbillon, a novelty that carries on some trademark Gronefeld design cues and introduces us the Gronefeld brothers’ idea of the perfect tourbillon.The centerpiece of this novelty is indeed the dial and the large flying tourbillon, as highlighted in a substantially sized, silver-outlined opening at the 7 o’clock position. The dial is cut from solid silver and sports polished beve