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Breguet Type XXII 3880ST High Frequency Chronograph Watch Hands-On
Between the time I originally wrote about this Breguet watch and when it was commercially released, the Type XXII watch changed. My understanding is that Breguet first needed to completely finish developing and testing the movement as well as perfecting the design?when I initially saw it in 2010.?Last year when the watch was eventually released for sale, consumers ended up with a slighty different product. When people like me go to watch shows we are shown “prototypes” and rarely products which are ready to be boxed up for a customer. “Prototypes” can mean one of these things. Either, “this is a?shoddily?put together version of the final model that doesn’t look as sexy as it will eventually look…” or, “we haven’t quite finished this watch and need some feedback from people like you and retailers while we make it actually work.” This was the latter I believe.What’s wrong with that approach? A few things, and a lot o
Longines Column Wheel Chronograph Watch's Day At The Races
It surprised me to learn that Longines has close to 100 years of history with horse racing. In fact, Longines has a lot of history altogether. Like many historic watch brands still alive today, Longines spent much of its life as a watch movement maker run by engineers. This is an interesting point because, according to long-standing Longines CEO Walter von Kanel (who has been at the brand for over 40 years), a major difference between watch brands of today and those of yesterday is who ran the show.He reminds us that watch brands used to revolve around new movements. The engineers would develop a new movement and then design a watch around it. Today, watch brands are more business/marketing minded and design watches around concepts, market needs, etc… In essence, the reverse of what they used to do. This phase-shift in timepiece production makes total sense given that people buy watches for different reasons these days.