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Glashutte Original Senator Excellence Watch With New Caliber 36 Hands-On
For 2016, German watchmaker Glashutte Original introduces a new base movement they call the Caliber 36, and to start, these in-house-made movements will be showcased in the also new Glashutte Original Senator Excellence collection of timepieces. When a new watch is launched, the attention we dedicate to the movement is usually less than the amount of time we spend analyzing other parts of the timepiece. Unless we are before a remarkable?innovation, we rarely go beyond documenting the frequency, the power reserve, or the type of chronograph, because too many techie details are not what the average reader is willing?to digest.However, it is precisely the movement that allows a brand to rise to the enviable status of manufacture, as evidenced by the endless wrangling about what a "manufacture calibre"is or is not. Today, we'll be looking at the Glashutte Original Senator Excellence watch equipped with the new?Caliber 36 core movement. Glashutte's manufacture has reworked and rethought the
Chronoswiss Sirius Flying Grand Regulator Skeleton Watch
Last year, Chronoswiss put out a new regulator watch called the Sirius Flying Regulator. The Chronoswiss Sirius Flying Regulator was special in the sense that its sub-dials for the hours and seconds seemed to be floating on the main dial – hence “Flying Regulator.” For 2017, the brand is releasing a new skeletonized version called the Chronoswiss Sirius Flying Grand Regulator Skeleton that is going to be a limited edition. Let me talk you through this new watch now.For anyone unfamiliar, regulator-style watches are those where the hours, minutes, and seconds are read off separate dials, usually with the minutes displayed prominently in the center. They are a bit of an oddity these days and something you don’t see too often. But with a cool and technical-sounding name, in recent years more and more brands have been rediscovering this kind of watch as a way to stand out and another style option around which to build designs. Their historical origin adds to the app