MMT E-Strap Smart Module Watch Straps
If you’re not familiar with Swiss?MMT, they're the folks behind the smartwatch technology in the connected watches from?Alpina?and?Frederique Constant, and we've reviewed the Frederique Constant versions?here?and again?here. Whether out of necessity or the desire to innovate, I do not know, but MMT has felt that being tucked into a watch case is simply not all they want to do.?Instead, they want to be on your watch strap.?MMT has done this by taking the guts of what they have placed into watches and instead built it into a module that is affixed to a watch strap (of their making), right next to the buckle.?With this one strap, you've added activity tracking, sleep monitoring, a sleep cycle alarm, get-active alerts, and dynamic coaching to your watch.Ostensibly, something like the MMT E-Strap allows you to wear any old watch that you want and have some smarts (the aforementioned tracking) built into the experience. This is the "best of both worlds"compromise that I would consider
Christopher Ward C60 Apex Limited-Edition Dive Watch Celebrates Five Years Of Caliber SH21
It used to be easier to predict what?Christopher Ward was about to launch. In the company’s early days, homage pieces were the order of the day. Solidly built, mostly outsourced reflections of whatever trend the industry was wading through would hit the shelves thick and fast. But no longer. The company has changed. Gone are the days of honoring past masters. Now is the time for innovation. And while that independent character is starting to break through in the watch designs of late, it’s been in the works for quite some time already. The Christopher Ward C60 Apex Limited-Edition watch is the brand’s birthday gift to the movement that makes its newest watch tick - Caliber SH21.This 100-piece limited is a self-confident wrist warrior. Garbed in bright blue and orange, it is in full attack mode from the moment you strap it on. Whether this sits comfortably with a broad audience is not really the point. This is exactly the kind of statement piece a brand at Christopher