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Breguet Tradition Ref. 7047 Fusee Tourbillon With Silicon Balance Spring Watch Hands-On
This technical complex and sophisticated Breguet did not impress me as it should have. Of course, as a whole the watch is impressive, but as a higher-end Breguet watch the new design direction taken here is a step in the wrong direction in my opinion. Part of me thinks that the “smoothing over” of the design of the watch and the movement decoration is too modern for this timepiece. What is wrong with the “old way” Breguet? Really I don’t want Breguet to be a “youthful” brand anymore than I want octogenarians listening to gangster rap (‘heard that!’). While the watch is clearly a Breguet and highly appealing technically, it just looks too much like it borrowed lessons from Maurice Lacroix rather than Abraham-Louis. Two things that the watch has that I like are the tourbillon and a fusee and chain style power transfer from the mainspring to the watch. Then you have the sandpaper black like texture on the brides, the unsophisticated wa
ArtyA Watches For 2017 Continue To Celebrate Weird Art
Yvan Arpa is a watch industry soldier. In the almost 10 years I’ve known him, the projects and brands that he has worked with vary almost as much as the often crazy designs his own ArtyA brand is known for presenting. Despite being based in Geneva and connected to the traditional watch industry, Yvan Arpa has the charming ability to feel like a real alternative to the rank and file watchmaker and design we typically come across.? His artisitc work and company strategy, and in some ways, his agility as a business man and artist has allowed him to persist relatively well in a once proud industry now marked by uncertainly, instability, and crippling rigidity. Arpa exists within the watch industry as much as he exists outside of it, viewing it from the side?¨C despite the fact that as a Geneva resident he is quite literally situated in the heart of the where Swiss luxury timepieces are made. Inside all of the watches are Swiss mechanical movements?¨C many of which are modified in-house