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Piaget Gouverneur Watches Hands-On
Say friend, are you looking for a fancy formal watch that isn’t quite like anything else but won’t make your friends do a double take? Well then Piaget might just have something for you. This new collection for 2012 is a sort of amalgamation watch taking into consideration design cues from many different Piaget timepieces including the Polo, Emperador, and Altiplano. It isn’t round, it isn’t a cushion, it isn’t minimalistic, it isn’t sporty. It is somewhere in between all these things and feels like Piaget’s best stab at recreating the magic which is the durable design of Patek Philippe’s Calatrava family.What do they call it? Francophiles will love the “Gouverneur” name which is merely “Governor” in French. I wonder if there is a French equivalent of the English “eh governeh?” Though for us English speakers, spelling “Gou-ver-neur” is a bit of a drag. That won’t stop me from liking th
Max Bill By Junghans Watches For 2010
The “Max Bill watch” as it is known is one of the 20th Century’s most famous watch designs. Clearly conceived by designer and architect Max Bill in Switzerland, the watch was a staple of goodness back when it was originally made in the 1960s. Since then you could buy versions of the watch in its pure form as made by German Junghans (who has many of their movements made by Seiko). For 2010 Junghans offers up a more modern, but still retro version of this retro classic. There are three versions of the watches and most exciting is their more modern dimensions (save for the still small manually wound version).The Max Bill watch is what you can call “concrete Bauhaus.” I think this term neatly applies to the combo of Bauhaus design with a modern touch that evokes the beginnings of modern architecture from the 1950s and 1960s. Many of these architectural designs that I refer to may look a bit dated by today’s standards, but the best pieces from this era bo