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For vintage quirkiness and a hefty dollop of old-school charm, you can’t go wrong with Vacheron Constantin’s Historiques American 1921 watch line. As the name suggests, this year is the centenary of this singular watch with its equally singular history. According to company legend, the watch was created in response to an American customer with a big thing for motoring who needed a watch he could read while gripping the steering wheel of his motor car.
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Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire s column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world since March 2020. This week, we re working with the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie as Media Partner of Watches and Wonders Geneva. Visit Watches and Wonders website for news and video panels daily, and keep checking back here for all the updates you need to know about.
While the horological world always gets worked up about a new movement or the groundbreaking use of materials, often the shallower of us (like me for instance) are equally diverted by decorative innovations like a new accent color. So, the Black Bay Fifty-Eight 925 is surely going to make everyone happy because it has all three. Most immediately striking are the dial and ceramic bezel in a smoky, gray brown, a shade the brand is calling taupe, and a satin-finish 925 silver case a first for a Tudor dive watch.
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Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire s weekly column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world since March 2020.
Watch companies especially those with spiritual ties to the ocean have been quick to embrace initiatives to ally with adventurers and naturalists promoting action on climate change and w0rking to protect and preserve ocean habitats. It’s a facet of the watch industry that has only gathered pace in the past decade. A natural, market-friendly offshoot and a cool way for the market to join in is making watch straps made from recycled ocean plastic. But very few brands have taken the recycling idea and applied it to the watches themselves. Panerai, however, shows what can happen when a brand decides to fully explore the possibilities of pushing the technical limits of recycling to a mind-bending degree.
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One of the more taxing exercises in making dress watches, but one that a few high-end brands eagerly specialize in, is dreaming up impossibly thin movements and putting them to work in extremely elegant watches. For Piaget, it’s is something of an ongoing obsession. In 1957, Valentin Piaget, grandson of company founder Georges-Edouard Piaget, introduced the Piaget 9P, a record-breaking hand-wound movement that was just 2mm thick.
Creating automatic movements which require a rotor to power up the movement makes the shebang way more complicated. Just three years later, however, Piaget produced its first: the 12P, at just 0.3mm thicker. These watches came with suitably minimal dial designs that matched the modernist trend at the time, before beefy tool watches began to gather pace as the average joe’s timepiece of choice.