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REC Watches Mark I M2 Chronograph Review
Recover, recycle, reclaim. This is the motto and also the?base concept of the fresh Danish brand called REC Watches.?Established in 2013, the goal of the company’s?young?founders was to create a watch brand that would incorporate?recycled (or rather, upcycled) materials in the construction of their pieces.?The piece we have?in for review is?called the?Mark I chronograph,?one of their first two lines of watches, and what makes them unique is that the dials have been?cut from sheets of metal recovered from a 1978 Mini Cooper! As a result, no two watches?are exactly alike, and while the REC Watches Mark I would be a lovely watch all by itself, it also?tries to be more unique than other offerings in this entry-level price segment.We have seen a handful of brands incorporate historical material in their watches before, with Bremont’s HMS Victory (using wood and metal from an 18th century ship) and Romain Jerome’s Moon Dust DNA?(where?the dial contains “dust” fr
Tag Heuer Carrera Mikrograph 1/100th Of A Second Chronograph Watch Hands-On
Tag Heuer was nice enough to share the new Carerra Mikograph 1/100th of a second chronograph watch with me, but the room we were in was too dark to take video! So forgive me for having just the CG movie to show you what the watch looks like while the chrono is working. Though the Mikograph is much faster than a foudroyante watch, if you know what those look like to operate you get the basic idea.I first wrote about the Tag Heuer Carrera Mikrograph here. What does it mean in the video that the watch parts of this modern timepiece come right out of an older Mercedes sports car? The effect is cool, but the logic leaves me scratching my head a bit. Where do I put in the fuel? Modern the movement is. Don’t let the vintage looks of the Carrera case deceive you, Tag Heuer wanted you to understand this is part of their new range of in-house, hand-made very high performing movements when you look at it through the caseback. I think the reason they went with the classic look of the case an