Citizen Caliber 0100 Watch With One-Second-Per-Year Accuracy Hands-On
In many ways, Baselworld 2019 was an excellent year for the Japanese watch brands. Holes in the European watch industry strategy and innovation engine have emboldened watchmakers in the east to up their game, product-wise, as well as capture market share. A motivated Japanese watch industry has most brands choosing distinct but powerful ways to capture consumer attention and emotion. A product like the limited-production Citizen Caliber 0100 watch is a perfect example.Examine the rear of the case, and you’ll see what amounts to haute electronic horology. A few years ago, it would have been almost unthinkable, or even humorous, to “expose” a quartz movement through the rear of a watch case in a fashion akin to how mechanical watches often display their movements. The point of having a transparent caseback in order to show off the movement is a means to highlight the value and craft inherent in the movement’s design and construction. Inexpensive quartz movements t
Greubel Forsey Double Balancier Watch Hands-On
You are looking at what I believe is the very first?Greubel Forsey?timepiece released without a tourbillon. For a brand so focused on producing timepieces with multiple tourbillons, and tourbillons within tourbillons, it oddly shocked me to see a Greubel Forsey timepiece lacking what I felt was their iconic complication. Alas, there is still two of something. The new Double Balancier 35 degrees watch has two diagonally inclined balance wheels right on the dial.To be honest I don’t really miss the tourbillons. This is still more than enough watch for mere mortals. And trust me, while this isn’t Greubel Forsey’s most expensive watch, it isn’t a bargain being priced dangerously close to $500,000. The 43.5mm wide case is lavishly polished and in 18k gray gold (like white, but more… gray). As is the custom with Greubel Forsey, in the coming years we expect to see other versions of the Double Balancier in other materials, perhaps with dial changes. It feels lusc