Antoine Preziuso Chronometer Tourbillon Of Tourbillons Watch
Antoine Preziuso made a splash with their Tourbillon of Tourbillons watch, and now they have released another version with some visual changes for a look that is sleeker and a bit more contemporary. The new Antoine Preziuso Chronometer Tourbillon of Tourbillons offers a larger case to enjoy all three tourbillons, but still retains the impressive heart of the watch that took home the Innovation Watch Prize at last year's Grand Prix D'Horlogerie de Geneve.For those unfamiliar, Antoine Preziuso is one of the pioneers of independent watchmaking. He graduated in 1978 from the Geneva Watchmaking School and went on to work at Patek Philippe, making a name for himself as a meticulous watch restorer. And in 1995, Antonine finally presented the first of his own watches at Baselworld.
Ulysse Nardin Blast Hourstriker Watch: Laser-Finished Case Meets Mechanical Chimes
With a case design inspired by F-117 Stealth Fighters and an exterior finished by lasers and human hands, the Blast collection expands with its most complicated version to date: the Ulysse Nardin Blast Hourstriker.Ulysse Nardin has a long and diverse history of all sorts of chiming watches, from discreet, solid-dial dress watches that only chime the hours to minute repeaters with explicit erotic scenes coming into motion through mechanical automata, we have seen?a lot of different chiming watches from Le Locle. The Blast Hourstriker harkens back to those old (and I do mean old) days when time was not read but heard - thanks to the brilliant engineering of clock towers, then domestic clocks, then pocket watches and, in the end, by wristwatches. Placing a chiming clocktower’s mechanics into a wrist-worn timepiece is hard, but Ulysse Nardin leaves little to one’s imagination as to how hard: the open dial reveals a microcosm of cams, snails, and wheels, all of which come to pla