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Szanto Debuts Desert Sands Chronograph Watch Series
In this current age of vintage reissues, many brands across the watch industry are dedicated to capturing the heritage and feel of bygone eras in modern designs. For brands with extensive back catalogs, this can take the form of reinterpreting classic past models, but a lack of longevity hasn't stopped younger brands from participating in the trend as well. For a brand without its own vintage models to draw on, however, this can take one of two forms. The young brand can ape the style of another brand's vintage design, attempting to interpret a recognizable watch in its own way, or it can aim to create something that emulates the feel of a certain time period without referencing any particular watch. Relative newcomer Szanto has made a specialty out of this second approach, taking loose, retromodern interpretations of stylistic periods for its stable of vintage inflected sports watches. The latest in this line is the Desert Sands series, a line of chronographs blending new and old infl
Girard-Perregaux Laureato Absolute WW.TC Watch Review
The watch that got me interested in Girard-Perregaux was a previous generation ww.tc. Standing for “world wide time control,” the ww.tc was a high-end traveler’s watch with classic personality and a well-made mechanism. It was very much designed for the gentleman on the go. Flash forward to today, and that same man on the go isn’t necessarily wearing the same clothing. That suit and tie with a leather briefcase may be replaced with an athleisure wardrobe, high-tech electronic gear, and minimalist soldier-inspired luggage. If that same type of person is going to enjoy a ww.tc watch today, it will probably look different from a Girard-Perregaux meant to be more in style yesterday.This is where not only the larger Laureato Absolute timepiece collection comes in, but more specifically what I believe the Girard-Perregaux Laureato Absolute WW.TC (now uppercase) is trying to be an answer to. This is meant to a prestigious Swiss Made mechanical traveler’s watch, b