Arnold & Son Time Pyramid Tourbillon Watch
Arnold & Son has made some truly incredible watches, like its recent Globetrotter, covered by Zach here, and my personal favorite, the Nebula, covered here. Arnold & Son cleverly blends high-end Swiss watch manufacturing with a design aesthetic that’s unique. This year at Baselworld 2019, it unveiled a new iteration of the?Arnold & Son Time Pyramid Watch, now with a new caliber. The Time Pyramid Tourbillon is the next level of the Pyramid collection, featuring two different power reserves sandwiched along with the tourbillon between the sapphire dial and display back. The skeletonized caliber is an homage to Arnold and Son’s regulators, which feature hours and seconds on different axes. This movement is built vertically, with the two mainspring barrels sitting at 6 o’clock and the tourbillon escapement at noon. The whole movement is visible from both sides of the watch. The Arnold & Son Pyramid Watch will be available in both 18k 5N red gold or stainle
Zodiac Super Sea Wolf 53 Black ZO9276 Watch Hands-On
In the second part of 2019, Zodiac quietly released the first “blacked-out” version of its popular Zodiac Super Sea Wolf 53 Compression Automatic watch with the reference ZO9276. Internally, this watch is mostly known as the “Super Sea Wolf 53 Black.” The timepiece offers a new dial-color treatment as well as stainless steel case and bracelet that have been thoroughly PVD-coated in black. The underlying steel surface treatments remain the same, with the polished and brushed surfaces still rendering nicely in the all-black color.Why black? Aside from the fact that “all black” watches are rather popular with some watch consumers, from a designer’s perspective, there is another goal. Taking a core design and offering it in new colors is an interesting test to see how versatile and robust a core design is. By that, I mean the notion that if the Super Sea Wolf 53 case looks good in polished steel, as well as black-coated steel, it is a robust and ve