Antoine Preziuso 'Tourbillon Of Tourbillons' Triple Tourbillon Watch Hands-On
Baselworld is the type of place where you can be amazed in the most unlikely of situations. Did I imagine, for example, that I would run into the son of the great watch maker Antoine Preziuso at 1am while socializing Basel – who would proceed to show me what ended up being the most visually amazing high-complication watch of 2015? That is not typically the type of thing that I anticipate happening in advance. Nevertheless, Florian Preziuso showed me a watch that, while under the Antoine Preziuso brand name, is his baby that he has been working on for the last few years.Clearly proud of his new invention, the young watchmaker held up his wrist wearing a watch with three running tourbillons, all on a dial that itself was rotating. Called the Antoine Preziuso Tourbillon Of Tourbillons, this new highly exclusive mega-complication is a masterful sight to behold that in many ways sums up the intoxicating, almost hypnotic feeling you get from seeing an amazing micro machine in operation
A. Lange & Sohne Saxonia Moon Phase Watch
Perhaps the most easy-to-love new A. Lange & Sohne watch debuted at SIHH 2016 is the novel Saxonia Moon Phase. Not the brand’s most complicated debut, nor its most innovative, the A. Lange & Sohne Saxonia Moon Phase nevertheless charms because of its welcome mixture of features and style to form a package that I believe most watch enthusiasts will agree is “beautiful.”In addition to a useful automatic movement, the A. Lange & Sohne Saxonia Moon Phase is defined by a dial that includes both a moon phase indicator window as well as a big date indicator (in addition to the time, that is). German linguistic extremism is perhaps at its best here, as A. Lange & Sohne has always (and continues to) refer to its “big date” as “outsize date” indicators. The rarely used (at least in the USA) term “outsize” means something that is “exceptionally large,” according to most dictionaries. Big date indicators use two dis