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BEST FROM: & Friends June 30, 2021
And just like that, we are halfway through 2021. I hope it has been good for you, so far. This month, we have reviews of IWC's very new and very important Big Pilot's Watch 43 and a very quirky vintage-inspired dive watch called the Bulova Oceanographer Devil Diver. We also take a trip back to the late ’90s to the time when Swatch launched its Beat collection of watches and also introduced a new time system called ".beat time."And from around the web, let's learn more about the Lange 1 Time Zone, the Lange 1 for the jet-set. We also take a closer look at two very interesting dress watches at opposite ends of the price spectrum: the Ophion OPH 786 Velos and the Grand Seiko Masterpiece Spring Drive SBGZ007. And finally, we visit a watch detective to see what can be done when your watch goes missing.
Gerald Genta Arena Bi-Retro Sport Watch Marks Return Of Brand Under BVLGARI
Reported on best watches earlier in 2020, and made official today, the Gerald Genta brand is making a comeback, under the stewardship of BVLGARI (owned by the LVMH Group) which owns the rights to the brand and name. The timepiece itself is the lovely reference 103448 Gerald Genta Arena Bi-Retro Sport watch, with its yellow-accented dial and brushed titanium case. First, some history and background.Gerald Genta (now deceased) was a watch designer responsible for today’s most popular types of luxury watches (by the numbers). These are the so-called “integrated bracelet” watches that do so well for brands such as Audemars Piguet and Patek Philippe. Both the Royal Oak and Nautilus watches (respectively) were originally designed by Mr. Genta. (I wrote an extensive discussion of the “Gerald Genta effect” on today’s watchmaking industry here.) Later in his life, he finally set out to create his own Gerald Genta brand, which was active mostly in the 1990s an