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Cartier Ballon Bleu Extra-Flat Watch Hands-On
Among Cartier’s many new releases for 2011 was this ultra-thin version of the popular Ballon Bleu. I am not totally sure why the Ballon Bleu is so popular. As a women’s watch I totally get it. It has a elegant, bubbly beauty to it and some nice rounded curves. I mean the word “balloon” is in the name – at least I think that is what “ballon” means. I could be wrong, I don’t know. Regardless of the true translation, the watch collection will always be the “blue balloon” to me – and now it is a bit deflated.Thin profile watches are hot in 2011. There are a lot of reasons for that, but cost is one of them. Brands can charge the same amount for a watch with less precious metal – and they can claim you are paying for the complexity of miniaturization. That argument might make sense, but thin watches have been around for generations. I actually don’t mind thin profile watches unless they are wide enough. Anything un
Richard Mille RM036 Watch With G-Force Meter Hands-On
If you are a fan of Monty Python then you are a fan of comedy frequently derived from irony, and often from absurdity. Consider me such a fan, and I have a feeling that Mr. Mille falls into this same camp. At SIHH 2013 my enduring image of him is sitting in a chair and speaking energetically with his hands. “Absurdity” is the easiest way to explain the combination of features and the conception of the new Richard Mille RM036 “G-Sensor Tourbillon” watch.In brief, the watch is a mechanical tourbillon-based timepiece with a g-force meter. On the one hand you have a rather fragile tourbillon escapement, and on the other hand you have a device designed to measure the force from velocity… typically used when you are planning on experiencing some rather high forces. These things simply don’t go together most of the time.