Vintage Timepieces - Bulova

ENGLISH 

Baselworld 2019 featured an interesting exhibition of vintage Bulova watches. The Accutron and its many declinations obviously took the lion’s share.

ITALIANO
Fra le attrazioni di Baselworld 2019 va ricordata la mostra di orologi vintage Bulova. La parte del leone è naturalmente toccata all’Accutron nelle sue numerose varianti.

 

Vintage Ad - Cyma (1938)

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"Perfect timing under all climates and conditions" – This 1938 ad about the Cyma waterproof watches includes a mention of the shock absorber “fitted to the gents watersport watches”, which “is specially constructed to hold a large quantity of oil and to prevent the same flowing away from the pivot”. “Watertightness is permanently secured” by the design of cases in which “no perishable materials are used” – waterproof timepieces often featured cork or leather gaskets. Cyma was a trademark registered by Tavannes, a prominent company whose production plant employed 2,000 people at the time.
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ITALIANO 
"Precisione assoluta in ogni clima e situazione". In questo annuncio del 1938 sugli orologi impermeabili Cyma si cita anche il dispositivo antiurti “adottato nei modelli da uomo per gli sport acquatici, (…) progettato appositamente per trattenere una grande quantità di lubrificante e impedirne lo spargimento dal perno”. “La tenuta stagna è assicurata in permanenza” dalla costruzione di casse nelle quali “non si usano materiali deperibili”: spesso gli orologi impermeabili avevano guarnizioni di sughero o cuoio. Cyma era un marchio registrato da Tavannes, fabbricante di primo piano che in quegli anni dava lavoro a 2.000 dipendenti.
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SIHH 2019 (5)

This is the fifth of a series of posts featuring a few pieces seen in Geneva at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie, the year’s first watch show.

PIAGET

Altiplano – Equipped with the ultra-thin automatic caliber 1203P, this 40mm pink gold timepiece features a meteorite dial and is limited to an edition of 300 pieces.

Polo – The steel 42mm case hosts a green dial that changes in tone and intensity depending on the angle of light that hits the guilloche surface.

ROGER DUBUIS

Excalibur Huracan – Visible through the titanium sapphire crystal case back, the skeleton automatic RD630 caliber offers a 12° angled balance wheel representing the movement signature associated with Lamborghini Squadra Corse.

RICHARD MILLE

Fraise – The Fruit line features color-gradient cases made of Carbon TPT®  combined with Quartz TPT® of a different hue for each model.

ULYSSE NARDIN

Skeleton X – The openworked movement is part of a geometry featuring an X formed by four of the indexes, framed in a rectangle, in turn inside a circle.

VACHERON CONSTANTIN

Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin – The 41.5mm pink gold case is just 8.1mm thick and hosts the self-winding in-house 1120QP caliber.

Twin Beat Perpetual Calendar - A patent-pending system enables instantaneous switching between Active mode and Standby mode. The latter steps in during long periods of stasis when the watch is laid flat and a high-frequency balance would drain the mainspring with no added advantage.

Vintage timepieces - Longines Stop Seconde (1940s)

A simplified chronograph of the early 1940s.
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Baselworld 2019 (3)

This is the third of a series of posts featuring the new models on display at the world’s biggest watch show.

CHRONOSWISS

Flying Grand Regulator Skeleton – The 30 timepieces of this limited edition feature a dial in galvanic black with contrasting accents in red and yellow, light blue and orange, or red and coral. Activating the crown triggers a slide that blocks the balance spring, so that the seconds hand can be stopped and precisely set.

DOXA

Sub 300 T.Graph – The “Anniversary” reinterpretation of the 1969 divers chronograph features a 43 mm gold case, the original Valjoux 7734 movement, as well as the patented unidirectional rotating bezel with dual indication of the dive time in minutes and the depth in feet for a no-decompression ascent.

LOUIS MOINET

Mogador – The 45.4 mm case made from satin-effect grade 5 titanium hosts the LM-35 movement that won the latest International Chronometry Competition following four months’ worth of tests. The dial offers a view of the tourbillon’s rotating cage, where the balance spring, anchor and anchor wheel perform a full rotation every minute.

NOMOS

Tangente Sport – The Neomatik date caliber is protected from shocks and water (up to 1000 feet) by a stainless steel reinforced case, sealing, sapphire crystal glass back, and crown protection. The specially developed bracelet consists of 145 individual parts screwed together by hand and comes with the in-house deployant clasp.

SEIKO

Spring Drive Chronograph – The new design of the Grand Seiko Sport collection celebrates the 20^th anniversary of the Spring Drive movement. The latter’s high resistance to shock and temperatures guarantees a precision of 0.5 seconds a day in the most demanding conditions. The 44.5 mm case in high-density titanium is Zaratsu polished.

TUDOR

Black Bay P01 – Based on a prototype developed in the late 1960s, this divers’ watch features a hinged end-link with rotating bezel blocking system at 2 o’clock. The in-house self-winding movement is a COSC-certified chronometer that provides a 70-hour power reserve. The 42 mm stainless steel case is entirely satin-brushed.

 

100,000 VISITORS!

ENGLISH (il testo italiano è più in basso)

10e10.ch has just exceeded the 100,000 visitors mark - not bad for an independent website almost exclusively dealing with watches past and present. My hearty thanks go to all you readers. Your response is a much appreciated recognition of the effort I devote to producing quality contents. The occasion deserves a celebration. What about a selection of the images I posted over these years? Enjoy!

ITALIANO 
10e10.ch ha appena superato la quota di 100.000 visitatori. Non male per un sito indipendente dedicato quasi esclusivamente all’orologeria di ieri e di oggi. Desidero ringraziarvi di cuore. La vostra risposta è l'omaggio più gradito all’impegno con cui mi sforzo di creare contenuti di qualità. L'occasione merita di essere celebrata: per esempio con una panoramica delle immagini postate in questi anni. Buona visione!