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4N 4N-MVT01/D01 Watch Hands-On + Flash Sale
In 2009 Francois Quentin started the new brand 4N to produce the 4N-MVT01/D01 watch that we debuted back here in 2010. It was an ambitious project that involved the production of a fully mechanical watch that showed the time digitally on a series of overlapping discs. In 2011 we offered a hands-on look at a more complete prototype of the 4N, but one that wasn’t quite working yet. Now, his own piece is being sold and Francois will hand deliver the watch to whomever buys it.Francois informed us that the system to move the discs wasn’t quite done yet and that 4N was going to use the services of expert watch movement design house Renaud & Papi. In early 2013 I finally got to see the finished version of the?4N-MVT01/D01 limited edition watch. About four years of work for just 16 watches. In reality though 4N will produce some additional versions in the future, but the first 16 will always be a reminder of the efforts and the challenges of designing new types of mechanical mo
Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra-Thin Minute Repeater Flying Tourbillon Hybris Mechanica 11 Hands-On
There is something effortlessly cool about a thin, classy, elegant watch fitted with top-tier complications and the?Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra-Thin Minute Repeater Flying Tourbillon Hybris Mechanica 11 is just that-and a long name.All images by Ariel AdamsThin watches are in. “They’ve always been?in!”-you could argue, and you’d be right, but it is only lately that we’ve seen a notable rise in their popularity as a weapon of choice among manufactures. Prime examples to both types are Jaeger-LeCoultre and Bulgari. Where finishing and tourbillons and complex chimes brands struggle to explain (and are often at odds with explaining what a tourbillon is and does, with “it defies gravity” being an absolute pet peeve of mine), thinness everybody understands. Everybody with the slightest inclination for watchmaking gets that there must be something particularly challenging to making a watch thin, thinner, thinnest. Hybris Mechanica is Jaeger-LeCoultr