New releases – HYT Hastroid Blue Star

This limited edition of 20 pieces features a 48 mm magnesium case with a metallic blue gradient. Magnesium is 2.6 times lighter than titanium, yet extremely strong. The dial features a large central hand with an electric blue coating, and sharpened contours for an instantaneous fix on the minutes. The two sub-counters provide essential complementary information: small seconds at left; power reserve to the right. The openworked dial back and mainplate reveal the components of the hand-wound mechanical movement designed by Eric Coudray.

New releases – Amida Digi-Trend

 

While preserving the essence of the model first introduced in 1976, this “Take-Off Edition” presents a number of new features. The car body-style case, machined from a block of 316 L stainless steel, has seen its contours refined for sleeker aesthetics and improved finishes. The redesigned case, water-resistant to 50 meters, now has an open back, revealing the regulating organ of the mechanical self-winding movement – Soprod’s Newton caliber (23 jewels), which beats at 28,800 vibrations per hour (4 Hz) and offers 44 hours of power reserve.

 

 

New releases – Reservoir x Popeye Camel

The latest comic-driven timepiece from the Franco-Swiss watchmaker is a 100-piece limited edition for Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons, the UAE luxury watch and jewelry retailer. The PVD gold case houses a self-winding movement optimized for the maker’s style of timekeeping. The minute hand moves from 0 to 60 on a 240° arc before stopping and starting over at the beginning. The hour marker at 6 is a jumping hour complication and is shown beneath Popeye's picture in a circular window.

 

 

Summer readings / Letture d'estate

ENGLISH (il testo italiano è in fondo alla pagina)

Looking for something serious to read while holidaying? The right answer is one of Marco Strazzi’s Watch Books.

 

The Museum Collection is a selection of 100 milestones of 20^th Century watchmaking. The technology, design and style of the more and less well-known models that made the history of timekeeping from 1900 to 2000. Click here to learn more.

Watch Ads 1900-1959 and Watch Ads 1960-2000 take the reader through a century of communication. The thousand or so featured images are living history and a faithful testimony of how design, styling and the public’s tastes evolved. Click here to learn more.

Rolex 1905-1960 focuses on the company’s first half-century - the years that shaped its identity and paved the way to worldwide success. Timeline, watches, movements, ads, patents, documents. Click here to learn more.

The publisher has a recommendation for fiction lovers, as well. The historical novel Wingwatch tells the story of a wristwatch, lost on D-Day and rediscovered 70 years later in an auction house catalog. Click here to learn more.

 

ITALIANO

Cerchi qualcosa di interessante da leggere mentre sei in vacanza? La risposta giusta è un volume della collezione Watch Books di Marco Strazzi.

 

Orologi da Polso 1900-1959 è la prima parte della nuova storia enciclopedica dell’orologio da polso. Lo stravagante braccialetto con orologio deriso dai conformisti diventa uno strumento indispensabile. Clicca qui per saperne di più.

Orologi da polso 1960-2000 conclude la cronistoria del Ventesimo Secolo. Dall’orologio elettrico al rinascimento della meccanica, passando attraverso la crisi del quarzo. Con un’appendice sul ventennio 2001-2021. Clicca qui per saperne di più.

Watch Ads 1900-1959 e Watch Ads 1960-2000 accompagnano il lettore lungo un secolo di comunicazione. Un migliaio di annunci pubblicitari raccontano l’evoluzione del design e dei gusti attraverso i decenni. Clicca qui per saperne di più.

Rolex 1905-1960 è dedicato al primo mezzo secolo della Casa: gli anni che ne hanno definito l’identità creando le premesse di un successo planetario. Cronologia, orologi, movimenti, pubblicità, brevetti, documenti originali. Clicca qui per saperne di più.

L’editore ha un consiglio anche per gli amanti della narrativa. L’Orologio con le Ali racconta la storia di un orologio smarrito il 6 giugno 1944 (D-Day) e riscoperto 70 anni più tardi nel catalogo di una casa d’aste. Clicca qui per saperne di più.

 

 

New releases – Singer Divetrack

The 24-hour central chronograph function allows divers to track dive times, decompression stops, and surface intervals. The jumping hour and minute indicators provide an instant display of elapsed time. The 49 mm grade 5 titanium and stainless steel case with a ceramic aluminium black insert for decompression indications hosts the Agengraphe automatic movement, featuring a 72-hour power reserve.

 

 

New releases – Doxa SUB 300β Sharkhunter

 

The 42.5mm case is equipped with a pressure-resistant titanium container to protect the movement, a patented unidirectional rotating bezel in 18K 3N gold with dual indication of dive time (in minutes) and depth (in feet), a screw-down crown also in 18K 3N gold, and a water-resistance rating of 300 meters. Its scratch resistant sapphire crystal is treated with anti-reflective coating and the COSC-certified Swiss automatic movement provides a power reserve of approximately 38 hours.

 

Omega & NASA - The video clip

A fine video clip tracing the history of the Omega Speedmaster's association with NASA from the beginning to the 1990s

(by courtesy of Antiquorum Auctioneers)