$50,000 Baume & Mercier Clifton 1830 Pocket Watch Repeater Hands-On
At Watches & Wonders 2015, Baume & Mercier‘s major introduction (for men) was a limited edition pocket watch… in 18k red gold (of course). I knew about this in advance of the show, and I asked myself, “why?” Why would a company interested in offering entry-level to mid-range luxury watches suddenly release a pocket watch, limited to 30 pieces, with a massive $50,000 price tag? I have to say that after checking out the Clifton 1830 Pocket Watch Five-Minute Repeater, I sort of figured out why, but that still doesn’t explain the ongoing fetish watch brands seem to have with pocket watches these days. Nevertheless, with all that said, the Baume & Mercier Clifton 1830 Pocket Watch Repeater is a rather charming item.Baume & Mercier’s lead designer Alexandre Peraldi was nice enough to explain to us the aesthetic concept behind the Clifton pocket watch, and the idea is wonderfully ironic. You know how many wrist watches are inspired by pocket
Watch Review: A. Lange & Sohne Zeitwerk Striking Time
Easily the quirkiest and most entertaining-to-describe watch collection produced by German?A. Lange & Sohne is the Zeitwerk. Originally debuted about a decade ago, the Zeitwerk collection is typified by its digital hour and digital minute display for the time, along with a traditional analog subsidiary seconds dial and power reserve indicator. The overall design of the watch is inspired by an historic “digital clock” in Dresden’s opera house that was developed in collaboration with the founder of the brand in the 19th century. A. Lange & Sohne watchmakers and movement engineers have clearly had a fun time with the Zeitwerk, which is now its own family of watches within the Saxon brand. What I think no one originally expected was for this more “modern-looking” collection from the otherwise highly traditional brand to be an area in which A. Lange & Sohne experiments with musical (chiming) watches.Today, I take an in-depth look at the A. Lange &am