Blancpain Specialites Tourbillon Diamants Watch
Diamonds for diamonds sake? Maybe not. Don’t overlook the importance of ludicrously gilded timepieces in the haute joaillerie watch category. While such timepieces might wreak of excess, they are often times as complex, or more complex than the mechanical creations we so love. The process of choosing and cutting diamonds (not to mention setting them) is in credibly time consuming. All that in a white gold case with a automatic tourbillon mechanical movement – and you might just start saving up gold bars for this over $1.3 million impulse buy.Read my article on the Blancpain Specialites Tourbillon Diamants Watch at Haute Living here.
Seiko Prospex Fieldmaster Lowercase Watches
Unless you are Japanese or into Japanese culture and fashion, the name Lowercase might not mean anything significant to you. Lowercase is, in fact, a Japanese design and creative consulting firm that has worked with some of the biggest brands in the world like Nike, Disney, and Lego, to create campaigns in Japan. Now, they have teamed up with Seiko to produce a series of limited edition Seiko Prospex Fieldmaster Lowercase watches.Seiko's Prospex watches are essentially tool watches developed specially for professional use, hence the name being a portmanteau of professional + specifications. The entire collection is subdivided into Sea, Land, Sky, and Run. The watches that readers are probably most familiar with are the dive watches from the Sea collection. However, the Land collection has some pretty interesting models also. The Seiko Fieldmaster SBDC011, or "Field Tuna"as Seiko fans like to call it, is a hot favorite. It is an automatic watch that features a compass bezel and a brushe