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New Linde Werdelin SpidoLite Titanium Watch: Svend Andersen Finished Movement, Available Skeletonized, With DLC
It is always a pleasure to hear good news from Linde Werdelin. I recently got word of an interesting new release from the Britain based company. Watch companies are usually silent about new products until the official announcement. You talk with them regularly with no word of something new brewing, and then one day you get the news. Once in a while I’d like to see some “leaked” concept art. Well, this is a really cool new watch, which is actually part old watch. Frankly, it takes a bit of involvement in the industry to fully “get” this watch. Maybe you don’t know who Svend Andersen is, or why Linde Werdelin chose to use a 1970s NOS automatic movement for a thoroughly modern timepiece. In a nutshell, it is a clever way to produce something really individual, based on unique partnerships, and a process that other companies can’t easily replicate.The SpidoLite starts with a Linde Werdelin Biformeter watch case (I reviewed a Linde Werdelin Biformet
MB&F Legacy Machine No.2 Red Gold Blue Watch Will Be Last Ever In Red Gold
Six years after the MB&F Legacy Machine No.2 exploded onto the watchmaking scene, tumbling, so perfectly formed, from the minds of award-winning watchmakers Jean-Fran?ois Mojon and Kari Voutilainen, its journey has come full circle. The release of the MB&F LM2 Red Gold Blue watch will be the last ever to be made from the 18k red gold that encased the first.And this will be a very limited release, with only 12 pieces planned. But each of those 12 will have a remarkably rich character thanks to the regal combination of the red gold case and the deep blue dial plate, whose color has been obtained through a CVD (chemical vapor deposition) process.