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Hands-On: Zenith Defy El Primero Double-Tourbillon
Eight years ago, best watches was there when TAG Heuer debuted one of its several outstanding (from a performance standpoint) chronographs that attempted to very precisely measure intervals of time. That time in 2012, it was the TAG Heuer MikrotourbillonS. Guy Semon at TAG Heuer developed it (and other interesting mechanisms) under the Jean-Christophe Babin regime - and he is still working on exciting innovations there today. TAG Heuer and Zenith are both part of LVMH, and more recently it was decided that such ultra exotic high-end timepieces belonged more at other brands such as Hublot, Bulgari, and Zenith.Zenith, being the home of the “high-beat” El Primero chronograph (which operates at 5Hz), was the natural place for the further development of “high-beat” chronographs, which this El Primero Double-Tourbillon most certainly is. The reference 10.9000.9020/79.R918 Zenith Defy El Primero Double-Tourbillon contains the Zenith caliber 9020 automatic movement, whi
Hublot's Tactic With The Blackeyed Bernie Ecclestone Watch Ad
The first thing that came to mind when I first saw this image in an e-mail from Hublot was “wait, what?” I didn’t get it. What was this? At first I thought the image of Bernie Ecclestone was some type of painting. I?am not familiar with his face, but I do know of his work as the guy who runs Formula 1 racing. The British Billionaire’s face was distorted with a painful looking black eye and other facial bruises. The 80-year-old was recently violently mugged, and among other things, his Hublot King Power F1 watch was stolen.None of this information was placed in the above image send out by Hublot. In fact, it is entirely cryptic in its messaging. The point of it is simple I think. A beaten up elderly man along with the statement of “See what people will do for a Hublot.” Furthering the concept that the watches are so in demand, you’d punch your grandpa for one.