Favre-Leuba A. Schild Limited Edition Watch With Vintage Movement
Let me first sat that this Favre-Leuba watch is what the Vacheron Constantin Quai de l’Ile should have been. This attractive looking A. Schild Limited Edition of 101 pieces watch uses a vintage manually wound movement from 1967, and looks likes a design cross between a new Omega De Ville and the ill-fated (in my opinion) Vacheron Constantin Quai de l’Ile. Compare the images of the two watches, see if you agree with me. While Favre-Leuba makes well use of semi-transparent materials and retro styling, the Vacheron Constantin feels ‘vertigo inducing’ (to me). There is a sober looking seriousness with the A. Schild watch design. It feels like a politician’s watch out of the Cold War era, but in a good way. Something makes me think that I’d want to drive around in an classic polished black, chrome gilded Cadillac while wearing this watch.The A. Schild movement inside the watch is highly polished with micro perlage and is all original (aside from finishing
Sinn Model 1800 S Damaszener 100-Piece Limited Edition Watch In Damascus Steel
We have grown to like – well, love – Sinn for their consistently high quality, very technical watches like the EZM 10 (reviewed here) or the T1 and T2 Dive?watches. With the Sinn?Model 1800 S Damaszener, the brand further?strengthens?its?dressier?line of watches, while also adding a twist to it all with the use of damascus steel for the case, case back, and dial.Damascus steel (or Damaszener Stahl in German), is a material seldom encountered in wrist watches-and yet,?not unsurprisingly, Sinn still couldn’t resist adding a twist to it nevertheless. For the Sinn Model 1800 S Damaszener, both the central, largest part of the case as well as the?dial have been cut from the same complete?block of steel, rather than from separate?pieces. This was done to allow?the unique light-dark-light pattern of damascus steel?to?seamlessly flow throughout the case and the dial. The dial also features thirteen applied indices which, along with the long, lumed hour and minute hands, shoul