Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso steel / gold manual winding Kal. 846/1 Ref. 260.5.86 Reviews

NEWS WATCHES

Ulysse Nardin Executive Tourbillon Free Wheel Watch
“Time flies!”-I quite like the application of this otherwise rather tired idiom that Ulysse Nardin chose, because it does in fact go neatly with their new?Ulysse Nardin Executive Tourbillon Free Wheel; a watch that appears to have a deficiency in the wheel connection department. Because if a flying tourbillon is good, then a movement with lots of other flying stuff is… better?For the record, these parts fly in the literal sense as much as time does-not really. Even less-than-hardcore watch lovers will know, that a flying tourbillon is a tourbillon that is only secured from underneath, but not from above, and that’s what you’ll see at the 6 o’clock position on the dial of the?Executive Tourbillon Free Wheel. The rest of the flying stuff is a lot of the gears and stacks of gears standing on their own, poking through the dial, often apparently without any connection to other important segments of the movement. The 18ct rose gold version comes with a 
Ulysse Nardin Sonata Streamline Hands-On: Musical Alarm Watch
The Ulysse Nardin Sonata is not a new watch, but these two models are the newest iteration thereof and referred to by Ulysse Nardin as the Sonata Streamline watches. Among high-end timepieces in the brand’s even most avant garde collections, the Sonata is perhaps the least understood. Probably because there really aren’t other watches on the market (that come to mind) which are like it. In short, the Sonata combines a two time zone travel ?watch with a gong and hammer based alarm.Building on their best in-house movements, the Sonata’s caliber UN-67 automatic movement utilizes a silicon hairspring as well as escapement – for better timing accuracy. The two time zone system is carried over from that of the Ulysse Nardin Dual Time based movements, which offers case-mounted pushers to move the second time zone back and forth (by one hour) with ease. It also has a big date complication.