Rolex Datejust steel / white gold automatic Kal. 3035 Ref. 16014 Reviews

NEWS WATCHES

Manufacture Royale Opera Time-Piece Watch
Beat me with a stick! I just had to plod through Manufacture Royale’s nine page long bloody press release – only to have reasserted what they mention in the first few lines; that they are “unashamedly elitist.” Wipe my brow and hand me an ol’ timey hallucinogenic absinthe, because I need to lay back in a hammock on a steamship and read some Jules Verne to appreciate this steampunk mechanaut.Oh how right it would be for the good people behind the conception of this watch to redo their text and branding on the watch. It is a cool thing, and the overgrown child in my loves this oddity – but they really need to take it down a few notches. I kid you not: in a nutshell, the brand would have you believe that this watch not only sets the bar upon which all future watches must be judged, but also claims that according to the designer this watch release is one step closer to realizing a dream of utopia. Please calmly take an axe to my forehead – for I ca
Frederic Jouvenot Helios Watch Hands-On
One of the best mechanical watches for 2011 shown at the GTE (Geneva Time Exhibition) was clearly Frederic Jouvenot’s masterfully creative and well-executed Helios watch. The talented Mr. Jouvenot – a young and ambitious watch maker – was nice enough to show off the watch to me himself. I was dazzled by just how different, yet easy to read it was – and for about 50,000 Swiss Francs you too can have one.An element of the watch that isn’t totally new is the case. Frederic Jouvenot (FJ) debuted this case on his previous watch, the Frederic Jouvenot Automatic Chronograph Evolution. It has a great feel to it being 44mm wide in titanium. It is available in brushed and polished titanium, or in DLC black coated titanium. My choice (and the one on my wrist) is the DLC model – looks awesome with the gold-toned “sunbeams” which are made out of aluminum for strength and weight savings).