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Zodiac Introduces a Luminous Glow in the Dark Timepiece

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We often hear about efficiency advancements, technological innovations, and all sorts of design improvements, Zodiac, while very much up to date on all those points, is now also offering a bright blue glowing timepiece with the Super Sea Wolf 53 Compression Automatic Black Stainless-Steel watch. The new style features black plated stainless steel and bracelet for ultimate chicness. Atop the clean-cut facade is a unidirectional mineral top ring, a black sunray dial, and white luminous hands that glow — a pop of color against the monochrome. Loyal to Zodiac’s impeccable reputation, the style features STP-1-13 automatic movement and sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating. For true aficionados, the piece represents metropolitan elegance, sophistication, and ultimate timelessness.

 

The Super Sea Wolf 53 Compression Automatic Black Stainless Steel Watch is available online now.

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Ulysse Nardin Introduces Two Exploration-Inspired Styles

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Ulysse Nardin has announced a partnership with Vendée Globe, the world’s most challenging sailing race. They are launching two exclusive watch options inspired by the event, the Diver X Cape Horn and Diver X Nemo Point. Furthermore, the brand announced two new ambassadors: explorer/photographer Sebastian Copeland and freediver Alessia Zecchini.

 

As Vendée Globe is the ultimate test of nature’s extremes, the Swiss watchmaker took the job of making two durable watch options for precision at the time of the competition. Cape Horn is one of the land points that the sailors must pass near the southernmost tip of Chile and gives its name to one of the watches. There are only 300 pieces available unique for their Un-118 movement that guarantees accuracy. The Nemo Point is another location that sailors must pass with the same precision as Cape Horn but a leash-on-surfboard inspired design.

 

Ulysse Nardin Diver X Antarctica

 

Furthering the message, Ulysse Nardin chose Sebastian Copeland and his photography to represent the most unexplored extents of the planet. His imagery communicated the messages of urgent global significance and watch the Diver x Antarctica recalls the last-discovered continent.

 

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Lady Diver

 

Free-diver and explorer Alessia Zecchini also likes to test the waters and her watch is the Lady Diver that comes in four models. These refined diving watched are incredibly effective while also suitable for a millennial patron with their tasteful and elegant style.

 

 

 

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Zodiac Introduces Mid-Century-Inspired Watches

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Swiss watchmaker Zodiac has designed a new collection, dubbed the Grandrally, with pieces inspired by the brand’s own ’60s and ’70s archives.

 

One of Switzerland’s first premier watchmakers, Zodiac has been constructing one-of-a-kind pieces since 1882. From the start, the watchmaker focused on its country’s rich watch-making tradition while providing a new spin with its innovative products. They were among the first to start off with analog quartz watches, and later the first to launch the electronic Swiss watch in 1968. Today, Zodiac crafts watches focusing on functionality and adaptability for any kind of lifestyle.

The Grandrally resembles the driver chronographs with the heritage sport look including a 2-eye chronograph mixed with Swiss-made quartz. The timepiece is water-resistant up to 10 ATM and comes in 6 different styles with a leather strap option or a sleek stainless steel. With a Zodiac watch strapped to your wrist, you’re always up for a good time.

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Zodiac Grandrally Brown Leather Watch | Images: Courtesy of the brand

The Zodiac Grandwally watches are available online now.

 

 

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Raymond Weil Adventures with Realteam Sailing

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Swiss watchmaker Raymond Weil supports the Realteam sailing team as the official timing partner for the 2016 season of the D35 Trophy on Lake Geneva and the GC32 Racing Tour internationally.

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Paying homage to the eponymous brand’s founder, who was a member of the Geneva Yacht Club, while also enjoying today’s challenges, a new freelancer watch arrives to accompany the crew ahead.

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The powerful design has a 42.5mm diameter case, echoing the dynamics of diving watches, a luminescent indicator, and unidirectional rotating bezel in black ceramic with white, green, or orange graduation, as well as a screwed-down crown. Readability is ensured by the Super-Luminova, and the folding clasp of its rubber watch strap with double push-security allows adjustment and resistance. After passing numerous tests of resistance to impact, magnetic waves, pressure, and temperature changes, the new timepiece showed values of performance, precision, and innovation.

 

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Breitling’s New Avenger Bandit is Ready for the Open Ocean

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Built to withstand harsh weather and demanding conditions, the new Breitling Avenger Bandit captures the spirit of naval exploration. One of the last independent Swiss watch brands, Breitling was founded in 1884, and has an extensive history of designing instruments for the sky. Today, with the Bandit, the watchmaker turns its attention to the seas. Taking design cues from aircraft carriers, the new watch is entirely dedicated to performance. Featuring an ultra-light 45mm titanium case and a military rubber strap, the piece is as durable as it is versatile, ready to tackle the most demanding of tasks. A cambered sapphire crystal, glare-proofed on both sides, aviation-style numerals, and a luminescent coating add heightened visibility, while the gray case—a nod to to military ships—makes the watch as stealthy as it is utilitarian. In terms of technology, the new timepiece pulls out all the stops. Features include a 1/4th of a second chronograph, with 30-minute and 12-hour totalizers, a screw-locked crown, and a unidirectional rotating bezel. Adorning the bezel are four rider tabs—a Breitling signature—that allow the user to memorize specific times. In keeping with the marine theme, the watch is water-resistant up to 300 m. A Swiss-certified self-winding chronograph caliber Breitling 13 movement, which ensures both reliability and precision, tops off the perfect companion for any daring mission.

The Breitling Avenger Bandit is now available online.

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Yves Béhar Amps Up Movado Edge

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Must-have watchmaker Movado turns to noted designer Yves Béhar for a technical twist on the Movado Edge watch collection. Working with Béhar’s firm fuseproject, the new release re-sees the watchmaker’s signature 1947 style from industrial designer Nathan George Horwitt in new forms, as classic materials are swapped for foreign textures and an entirely new three-dimensional construction. “It [was] both daunting and an exciting challenge to design for Movado,” says Béhar. “The opportunity to stand out—to stand for something—can be rare in watch design.” From a stainless steel style with a sandblasted black dial and bold neon hands—our personal favorite—to an aqua-washed version with a midnight blue subdial and red and glossy gray hands, the 14-piece collection fuses modern mechanics with innovate style and a depth of texture.

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Montblanc Reveals Newest Timepiece Collection

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Famous German manufacturer of writing instruments, watches, jewelry, and leather goods Montblanc celebrates 157 years of Minerva’s heritage by launching the 1858 collection. Acquired by Montblanc in 2006, Minerva Manufacture is known for producing precise chronographs once used in the battlefields of World War I and II, and was founded in 1858. Inspired by the limited 1930s Minerva design of 100 pieces, the new Montblanc 1858 collection features four handcrafted new watches: a single-button chronograph in pink gold and three versions of a stainless-steel watch with subsidiary seconds. While the manually-wound, vintage-inspired timepieces bring the nostalgic feeling of a forgotten era, they manage to remain perfectly contemporary.

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Givenchy Releases Five Shark Watch Collection

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Elevating the design of a simple diver watch, Creative Director Riccardo Tisci draws inspiration from his iconic predator, the shark, for yet another luxurious timepiece style for Givenchy.

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The collection gives off a sporty vintage feel with a modern and sophisticated design, and is available in four color combinations incorporating steel, black, and gold. The octagonal case is equipped with a graduated rotating bezel and an easy-to-read dial that showcases all of Givenchy’s signature features, such as the golden crown buckle, sapphire glass, and high-precision Swiss Made quartz movement. Its band is made of genuine black rubber, which is pierced by a metallic backbone and teeth of steel, giving the timepiece a very masculine and aggressive look. The Five Shark watch was made for the minimalist guy who is looking for that subtle, super edge.

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Hermès Launches Slimdhermes.com

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Hermès—the French luxury house that was born as a harness-maker—uncovers Slimdhermes.com: a website dedicated entirely to the fashion brand’s newest timepiece collection, Slim d’Hermès. The playful web portal features ten different animations revealing the distinctive stages of watch production, from the first sketch to the final product, along with an interactive movie showing a man and a woman strolling through the city. The numerals’ font developed by Philippe Apeloig, a renowned French graphic designer, adds exclusivity and sophistication to the already elegant collection. After nearly three decades since the birth of its first timepiece collection, Cape Cod, Hermès adds yet another timeless addition to an already prestigious line. Interact with it now on the web.

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Ulysse Nardin’s Blue Ocean Marine Diver Limited Edition Timepiece

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Ulysse Nardin has been creating the most reliable marine chronometers for nearly 170 years, setting the benchmark in both civil and military realms. Continuing the brand’s nautical legacy in haute horology, Ulysse Nardin’s Blue Ocean is the latest edition to the Marine Diver collection. Purposefully anchored in aquatic sports, the watch was designed to tackle extreme conditions, making it much more than just a luxury item. The Blue Ocean’s 200-meter water resistant stainless-steel case has been specially treated with sophisticated vulcanization process, giving it a blue rubber coding with an everlasting appearance and a truly comfortable feel. Its exhibition case back reveals the self-winding movement also blued, followed by a unidirectional rotating bezel, screwed crown and detailed with anti-reflective sapphire crystal. This edition is limited to 1,846 pieces, each individually numbered on the side of the case. This exquisite time-piece is a classic reflection of Ulysse Nardin, innovation remaining as one of the main driving forces.

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A New Smart Watch from Mondaine

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In a market flooded with smart-watches and wearable technology, iconic Swiss watchmaker Mondaine is breaking free of the pack and offering up an advanced upgrade of its design favorite typeface timepiece, released earlier this year. Standing true to the core values upon which the brand prides itself—timeless, simple, different, cross-generational—this newest edition, dubbed the Mondaine Helvetica 1 Smart 1957 Special Edition, is in a class of its own. Beyond a simple a wearable device, the piece not only tells time via its analogous hands, it also tracks activity and sleep and offers sleep cycle alarms, get-active alerts, adaptive coaching, and automatic time alignment. The watch sports bi-directional communication via the MotionX app, which can be paired with any smart device to share and back up data, and includes a limited edition engraved backing: a fiery red “1” that mimics touches of design on the face plate. Unlike others in its field, the watch does not report data to the user in a digital format, but rather it delivers in an analog fashion via the sub-dial, keeping the watch aesthetically consistent among the Swiss watch product line. With only 1,957 watches in production, in honor of the year that the Helvetica font was first created, 1957, and a whopping 2+ years of battery life, the Mondaine Helvetica 1 Smart 1957 Special Edition is an updated go-to for any tech savvy man who doesn’t want to sacrifice impeccable style for 21st-century functionality.

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Dior Homme’s Chiffre Rouge Offers Gentlemen’s Timepiece

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Originally debuted in 2004, Dior Homme‘s Chiffre Rouge encapsulates the luxury label’s vision of the male universe. The exquisite timepiece style reflects decades of the tailoring know-how and the Dior identity, with even the minutest details. The 2015 version of this everlasting work—a beautiful 38mm automatic, Elite 682 calibre by Zenith—offers its first small complication with the second time zone, whose hand is adjustable by the pushbutton, and two others: the date, which appears in red in a window at 3 o’ clock, and a small second now in its very own dial at 9 o’ clock. The perforated black leather strap augments a sense of refined masculinity that the fashion house identifies with, and is presented against the clean yet intricate brushed stainless steel face.