Vacheron & Constantin Patrimony 18 ct white gold manual winding Kal. 1014/2 Ref. 92012 Reviews

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Roger Dubuis Hommage Minute Repeater Tourbillon Automatic Watch
In what I believe is its second year, the Roger Dubuis Hommage collection receives its most impressive piece to date, with the Roger Dubuis Hommage Minute Repeater Tourbillon Automatic watch, now close to the end of 2014. The original goal of the Hommage collection was to evoke the original designs that Roger Dubuis himself created for his eponymous brand back in the 1990s. Roger Dubuis later became unassociated with his brand, but a few years ago, the Richemont Group-owned Roger Dubuis brand decided to bring him back, and, along with his now “fatherly role” in the company, came the Hommage collection of watches.The Roger Dubuis Hommage Minute Repeater Tourbillon Automatic is just that, a vividly complicated mechanical movement that combines a tourbillon with a minute repeater and offers automatic winding. That latter element is quite interesting because the watch features “double micro-rotors.” Wha…? That is right, rather than having a full rotor or one s
Timex Marlin Automatic Snoopy Edition Watch Hands-On
The Snoopy Edition of the Marlin Automatic is a limited production version of the new 40mm wide Timex Marlin Automatic timepiece collection as the reference TW2R94800. As its name implies, the Snoopy Edition has an aviator-dressed version of Snoopy from the Peanuts comic universe on the dial. This is known as the “Flying Ace Snoopy” and according to Timex, the brand first produced a watch with the character on the dial back in 1965.Snoopy watches have been surprisingly popular over the last few years (even though Peanuts watches aren’t anything new). Swiss Omega’s Speedmaster Silver Snoopy watch?remains so popular that it frequently goes for more than retail on the used market. Timex’s “Snoopy watch” offering is much more democratically priced (and should ideally be easier to acquire) and I think it should make a lot of watch lovers pretty happy.