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Junghans Max Bill Edition 2017 Watch
Bauhaus watches seem to be everywhere nowadays. But few brands have as legitimate a connection to this popular design philosophy as German Junghans with their Max Bill collection. Now, the brand has recently announced two new Junghans Max Bill Edition 2017 watches that feature a whimsical and colorful piece of Max Bill artwork on the case back. As an added bonus, the models will be?available in a limited edition package?featuring a table clock.There is a lot to unpack here, but I wanted to touch on the relationship between Max Bill and Junghans, as well as shed some light on who Bill was and why he’s still involved with the brand. Beginning as a student at the Bauhaus art school in Germany, there isn’t a lot that the Swiss artist?wasn’t – sculptor, painter, graphic designer, architect… Notably, he later co-founded the Ulm School?of Design and designed some of the main buildings there himself. Max Bill (we can’t bring ourselves to write “max bil
Ulysse Nardin's Imperial Blue Watch With Flying Tourbillon And 4-Gong Sonnerie In Sapphire Hands-On
Since its establishment in 1846, and especially since its 1983 relaunch, Ulysse Nardin has taken its fair share of designing and manufacturing some of the most complicated chiming watches of modern horology. Their latest exercise in this extremely demanding field of high-end watchmaking is called the Imperial Blue, and it is yet another tangible and hugely impressive proof of that experience.?Comprising a flying, or rather a seemingly levitating tourbillon, a sonnerie Westminster carillon and minute repeater, as well as a date indication, when I first saw this piece the immediate question on my mind was where Ulysse Nardin put all these complications in a movement half of?which is completely transparent and contains nothing but the tourbillon, spinning in sapphire-surrounded loneliness?The reason why such liberality in using movement space shocked me is that the sonnerie complication of the Imperial Blue?represents the pinnacle of all chiming watches, meaning even greater complexity fr