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Peter Roberts Concentrique Grand Complication 5 Watch
Here is a watch that we unfortunately didn’t see at Baselworld this past April, the new Peter Roberts Grand Complication 5. “New” is used softly here as this watch is actually based on a design and concept from 1972. Peter Roberts is a renowned British watchmaker, lecturer and consultant that created a watch, called the “Concentrique,” as his graduation project from the famous WOSTEP (Watches of Switzerland Technical and Educational Program) watchmaking school. It is a timepiece he still wears all the time, and has been asked for quite sometime to produce and sell.Forty years ago, the Concentrique was ground-breaking as it was the first wristwatch with five centrally mounted hands, offering the time, chronograph seconds, pointer date, and a GMT hand all spanning from the center of the dial. Roberts was only 20 years old when he developed the mechanism that allowed for the Concentrique, and the watch was never commercially available or put into production,
Ronkko Icarus Silver Sky Edition Watch
Since the release of their?first watch in 2012, the Finnish independent brand?Ronkko?has produced a handful of compelling timepieces with watchmaker?Antti Ronkko at the helm. Much like his Finnish peers Stepan Sarpaneva and?Kari Voutilainen,?Ronkko takes a distinct avant-garde approach to his designs, which is often one of the joys of discovering new independents. One thing to note is that each design centers around stories rooted in Greek mythology. Even more compelling in the Ronkko Icarus Silver Sky Edition watch, however, is the in-house bi-hemispheric moon complication which tracks moon phases in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.As this is not the brand’s first watch, we should begin with some background in order to put the Ronkko Icarus into context. The first Ronkko watch, called the Steel Labyrinth, was fully designed and produced in-house, according to the brand. In corresponding with Mr. Ronkko, he speaks with the passion and obstinance of a true craftsman, em