SINGAPORE – It is a common sequence that includes the most recent information in watches and all issues horological.
Watches & Wonders 2022
Cheery information for the watch business got here earlier this month (October) when Watches & Wonders introduced that it’s going to return to Geneva in a bodily format in addition to digitally subsequent yr.
The watch honest – the successor to Salon Worldwide de la Haute Horlogerie which ran for nearly twenty years – will happen on the Palexpo from March 30 to April 5.
As a result of pandemic, the final two editions of the honest within the Swiss watchmaking capital have been digital affairs.
Watches & Wonders 2022 will see 40 collaborating manufacturers, together with Rolex, Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, A. Lange & Sohne, Ferdinand Berthoud, H. Moser & Cie and Grand Seiko.
Harry Winston Zalium Variation Orange and Zalium Variation Yellow
Harry Winston is best referred to as a high-end jeweller, but it surely has severe horological cred too. That is most evident within the timepieces produced underneath Challenge Z, an avant-garde sequence within the model’s basic Ocean assortment.
Two new fashions have simply been added to the line-up. Zalium Variation Orange and Zalium Variation Yellow reinterpret the unique design of Challenge Z’s tenth timepiece, which was impressed by the structure of the Manhattan Bridge in New York.
These 42.2mm watches are usual from Zalium – a light-weight, robust and corrosion-resistant zirconium-aluminium alloy developed by the model.
They boast a hanging open-worked dial, made much more so by an clever mixture of black with bursts of vivid orange or yellow and a black grid construction.
There’s a subdial at 12 o’clock which reveals the hours and minutes; and a date window at six o’clock flanked by a seconds hand on the left in addition to a day indicator on the suitable – each with a retrograde perform.
Powered by the HW3305 motion, the watches have energy reserves of 65 hours and include matching yellow or orange alligator leather-based straps with rubber bases.
Worth: Obtainable upon request
Patek Philippe Ref. 5204R-011 Break up-seconds Chronograph
Patek Philippe has simply added three new difficult chronograph fashions, together with the spectacular Ref. 5204R-011 Break up-seconds Chronograph.
Watch lovers have all the time coveted the Ref. 5204 as a result of it combines two of the watchmaker’s signature problems: the chronograph and the perpetual calendar.
An actual stunner, this new mannequin is usual from 18-karat rose gold and boasts a hypnotically stunning slate-grey dial.
The actions could also be complicated, however the design aesthetics will not be. Two in-line apertures at 12 o’clock clearly show the day and month whereas the date hand at six o’clock incorporates the moon-phase aperture.
In reality, the entire watch’s difficult perpetual calendar and chronograph indications are neatly and legibly displayed via strategically positioned in-line apertures, subsidiary dials and fingers.
The intricacy of the calibre CHR 29-535 PS Q could be admired via the watch’s clear sapphire caseback.
Worth: $408,400
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Chronograph
Nearly half a century after it made its debut, the Royal Oak continues to carry court docket with watch lovers.
Over the a long time, it has been up to date, reimagined and reinvented. In 1993, the Royal Oak Offshore – a hardier, sportier and extra aggressive tackle the unique timepiece designed by Gerald Genta – was launched. Since then, it has turn into a mainstay within the maison’s collections both in chrome steel or titanium.
The model lately dropped a number of new iterations of the Offshore, together with two 42mm Selfwinding Chronograph fashions. Each sport a “Mega Tapesserie” dial – a powder-blue one for the chrome steel model and smoky khaki for the titanium mannequin.
The hour-markers, Arabic numerals and Royal Oak fingers are usual from white gold with luminescent coating.
The motion driving these two timepieces – and visual via the watches’ sapphire casebacks – is the brand new self-winding built-in chronograph, Calibre 4404, outfitted with column wheel and flyback perform.
These fashions include textured rubber straps which match the dial color, in addition to black calfskin leather-based straps. The model’s new interchangeable strap system makes strap-switching a cinch.
Worth: $48,300
