The Perpetual-Doppel is a full perpetual calendar, with indications for the day of the week, month, date (of course) and the phase of the Moon. There is no running seconds hand – the two center chronograph split seconds hands, and the 30 minute register at 12:00, do for the chronograph functions. The perpetual calendar works are modular and by Dubois-Depraz. The sale will test the open market appetite for a 39 millimeter watch that Mark Kauzlarich called the best timepiece he saw during Watches and Wonders in 2023, praising its above-the-rim level of finishing, hand polishing, movement construction, and overall attention to detail. At our House of Craft event last October, Simon told Ben Clymer that he's getting over thirty requests a day for his watches—you can watch that full interview right here. Early this week – October 3 – actually marked the 60th anniversary of Schirra's Mercury-Atlas 8 mission. If you're into Speedmasters, you already know what that flight is famous for: Schirra had an Omega Speedmaster ref. CK2998 on his wrist, making it the "First Omega in Space. Diameter: 43mm (Tourbograph Perpetual), 38mm (1815 Thin)Thickness: 16.6mm(Tourbograph Perpetual), 6.3mm (1815 Thin)Case Material: 18k HoneygoldDial Color: 18k Honeygold, black-rhodiumed, with relief-engraved numerals and scales (Tourbograph Perpetual); copper, white enameled (1815 Thin)Indexes: Arabic numerals Lume: NoStrap/Bracelet: Leather Strap While there is a '70s sport-luxury vibe to the Royal collection, it stops well short of being what most of us mean when we say sport watch. It's a pretty dressy timepiece, in fact. And to that point, I think it's the most appealing new Tudor I've seen in a while that isn't a dive watch or GMT. But despite the newness, It is really nice to see the brand maintain things like the large sword-shaped hour hand, and the utilization of a bi-directional bezel. Keeping in line with 75th-anniversary theme, this watch will also have a caseback engraved with the Poseidon motif.

Yellow gold and red isn't a color combination that I would expect to like very much, but I have to admit I think it looks rather incredible here. Everything about this watch unabashedly oozes luxury – if Omega were to say that the watch came in a velvet box I wouldn't be surprised one bit (fyi, it does not). Finally, inside the 1980 Royal Navy Diver Re-issue ticks the ETA 2824-2, a movement that, by now, needs no introduction. The original watch would have contained an ETA 2783, which was the 2824’s predecessor but ticked at a slower frequency. Both movements had a date wheel, though for CWC’s watch, a no-date dial hid this function. While modern day Type XX watches are going to use an automatic Breguet chronograph caliber and make it visible through a see-through back, Breguet went in a different direction in order to honor the first Type 20s and be period correct. HODINKEE writer Logan Baker had described Geneva to me as a billionaire’s playground, and though I didn’t doubt that, I was not in that part of town, or not wholly in it. For a while I just walked in circles, past bakeries, past a laundromat, also past Ethiopian, Lebanese, Thai restaurants with chalkboards outside advertising meals for CHF 20. What you're looking at is a fine example of the Ref. E168 Geophysic, which dates back to 1958. Like other watches intended for the adventurous, the Geophysic's movement was given a number of beefed-up modifications, including a Breguet hairspring, Glucydur balance, and a KIF anti-shock mechanism. This elevated the standard Cal. 478 to the Cal.

It's not often that we see a vintage Breguet make the auction circuit. But here we have such a watch – a stainless-steel triple calendar chronograph, with a pointer date, a six o'clock moonphase display, and a tachymeter scale on the dial periphery, all powered by a hand-winding Valjoux 88 caliber inside. falso cartier orologi 5236P-001 wristwatch earlier this year, which shares a near-identical in-line perpetual calendar display above the central pinion.