Ultramarine Morse GMT Watch Hands-On
Disclaimer: I purchased an Ultramarine Morse, and the reviewed watch is the one I own. I signed up to buy a Morse back in June 2018 when it was first offered on Kickstarter and was covered via a Sponsored Post on best watches.com. When Kickstarter did not generate enough pre-sales, Lionel of Ultramarine decided to do his own direct-order system, which worked out better. I purchased my watch last Fall at the pre-order price, not the current retail price.Finding an affordable dual time zone (GMT) Swiss watch that doesn’t use an ETA 2893 (which can only be adjusted forward in whole-hour increments) results in pretty limited choices that often end up looking like a poor rendition of a Rolex Explorer (orange or red triangle tipped 24 hour hand, etc.). The Ultramarine Morse checked these boxes, which I pre-ordered about six months ago and received about a month ago, so I have one of the first production watches (serial number 6), and I think it was worth the wait.
Longines Breeders' Cup 2018 With Longines Watches
Jockey Lanfranco Dettori, on Enable, wins the Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY. Longines, the Swiss watch manufacturer known for its elegant timepieces, is the Official Watch and Timekeeper of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships. (Diane Bondareff/AP Images for Longines)Timing horse races is essentially an electronic endeavor, so it makes sense that the official watch of the Longines sponsored Breeders' Cup, which took place over the weekend at Churchill Downs racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky, is the quartz Conquest V.H.P. In the early days of racing, each horse (or human) was timed by a team of guys with mechanical stopwatches, relying on their thumbs to start and stop the seconds hand at just the right moment and then averaging their scores.Today, Longines uses Swiss Timing, the same Swatch Group division that its sister brand, Omega, relies on to time the Olympics. The timing and reporting apparatus involves a ma