Watches and Wonders 2022 Day 4 Highlights
Calendar mechanisms are marking a big impact on watchmaking this year. We take a look at a few key example.
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Image: H. Moser & Cie.
On the fourth day of our coverage of Watches & Wonders Geneva, we are back to full presentations within the Palexpo. Time is simply not on our side, which is ironic, given that we are literally surrounded by timekeepers of all sorts. Fortunately, we have cobbled together enough press materials and from our own shoots, to say something useful. After days of focussing on the second part of Watches & Wonders, we want to look at actual wristwatches.
At H. Moser & Cie, we need not spill anything at all with regards to the Endeavour Perpetual Calendar because it literally explains itself on the dial. Since this watch debuted before the fair, we won?t tarry. We have also already covered it, and now we have also spoken with CEO Edouard Meylan about it. This is the first educational dial we can think of in watchmaking, and that is pretty significant. Also there is a new Streamliner Chronograph Blacker than Black, with exterior surfaces coated in Vantablack; Vantablack is the darkest thing known to man, with the material absorbing more 99 per cent of all the light that hits it. Seen head-on, the watch looks like a bunch of hands floating in a black hole. For now, the watch remains experimental, and it struck virtually everyone who saw it, leading many to decl...
The post Watches and Wonders 2022 Day 4 Highlights appeared first on LUXUO.
Image: H. Moser & Cie.
On the fourth day of our coverage of Watches & Wonders Geneva, we are back to full presentations within the Palexpo. Time is simply not on our side, which is ironic, given that we are literally surrounded by timekeepers of all sorts. Fortunately, we have cobbled together enough press materials and from our own shoots, to say something useful. After days of focussing on the second part of Watches & Wonders, we want to look at actual wristwatches.
At H. Moser & Cie, we need not spill anything at all with regards to the Endeavour Perpetual Calendar because it literally explains itself on the dial. Since this watch debuted before the fair, we won?t tarry. We have also already covered it, and now we have also spoken with CEO Edouard Meylan about it. This is the first educational dial we can think of in watchmaking, and that is pretty significant. Also there is a new Streamliner Chronograph Blacker than Black, with exterior surfaces coated in Vantablack; Vantablack is the darkest thing known to man, with the material absorbing more 99 per cent of all the light that hits it. Seen head-on, the watch looks like a bunch of hands floating in a black hole. For now, the watch remains experimental, and it struck virtually everyone who saw it, leading many to decl...
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