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Oris Artix Complication Watch
Oris continues their classy “Complication” watch collection with the Artix. Easy on the eyes, and available with a six-link steel metal bracelet or leather strap. It is a graceful creation, and offers a decent mechanical annual calendar watch (with a symmetrical dial layout) at a reasonable price. With more and more watches like this coming out, I wonder what Oris’ new direction in the States is going to be. I say this because Swiss Oris recently fully took over the US division. So we will just wait and see.The Artix Complication looks like it uses a stripped down ETA Valjoux 775 automatic movement in the watch. Though it does not. The 7751 provides these functions (and more), but can be stripped down to this style. Oris instead uses a Sellita SW200 with a module for the annual calendar and moon phase functions. They call the movement the Calibre Oris 915. The style of the layout is in the traditional “triple calendar” look – which is most always app
Singer Track 1 Is A $40,000 Watch From The Porsche Car Modifier
The Singer Track 1 (aka Track 1) is an unlikely product the likes of which the current watch industry needs. Representative of how collaborative projects in the high-end timepiece industry should work, the Singer Track 1 is a totally new timepiece with the brand name of a well-esteemed and very exclusive Porsche car modifier based in Los Angeles, California. It is at Singer Vehicle Design’s San Fernando Valley headquarters – a mere few miles from where I grew up – that I met with some of the team responsible for the Singer Reimagined Track 1 chronograph. It’s not everyday that a fresh (and destined to be rare) watch is launched almost in your backyard.All images by Ariel AdamsEverything about the Singer Track 1 watch makes sense if you look at the product creation’s story and team responsible for making the project happen. The story begins with watch designer Marco Borraccino, who had a vision of a watch which promoted chronograph reading legibility and th