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For me, one of the most attractive modern Reverso watches has always been the Reverso Tribute models, which have beautiful faceted dauphine hands, colored dials, applied bar indexes, and a small seconds display at 6:00. The first Tribute watches came out in 2011, and that same year, JLC also released what I think is still the nicest time-only Reverso of the 21st century, which is the Tribute to 1931 New York edition. JLC has just released, for Watches & Wonders 2021, the latest Tribute Reverso, this time with a deep green dial.
Technically, it s identical to its predecessors – the reversible case is 45.6 x 27.4 mm, and 8.5mm thick, and the movement is the oval JLC caliber 822/2, with a 45-hour power reserve.
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So far, Watches & Wonders has brought us some genuine surprises, and not the least of them is the new SolarBeat movement-equipped Tank Must. The watch is the first solar-powered watch in the Tank collection, but it is also the first solar-powered watch ever from Cartier.
The watch is cased in stainless steel and comes in two sizes, at 33mm x 25.5mm for the large model, and 29.5 x 22mm for the small model. Cartier says that owners can expect, on average, a running time of 16 years before the watch requires a service (I assume that s the number of years that we can expect the rechargeable storage cell to last, as even rechargeable batteries have a finite number of recharge cycles). The idea is to not only make the watch an elegant, trouble-free, daily-wear, set-it-and-forget-it watch, but also to reduce its environmental impact, and in keeping with that theme, the straps – in black, blue, or light green – are made from non-animal leather, produced from scraps of apple
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In recent years, the watch industry has embraced color more than ever before – from dials that run the gamut of Pantone colors to bezels set with a full rainbow of gems. At Watches & Wonders 2021, Zenith offers its take on the trend with a twist.
In the latest iteration of the Defy – which, as you might recall, really has no dial at all – the brand has given its modern El Primero 21 chronograph movement a colorful PVD treatment coupled with a matching gem-set bezel and rubber strap in five bold hues, offering an entirely new approach to vivid, kinetic vibrance. Each tone – green, orange, blue, purple, and black – is available in a limited edition run of just 10 watches, forming the new Defy Spectrum collection.
EXCLUSIVE: White House sources tell Ian Bremmer the Biden administration will recognize Armenian genocide - the first US president to recognize genocide by the Ottoman Empire during World War 1. Ian explains in this Quick Take:
Hi everybody. Ian Bremmer here, kicking off the week. Gorgeous outside, it is spring, and I thought we d focus today on some breaking news out of the United States on Turkey. Those of you following Turkey, know it s been a tough couple of weeks, couple of months, year for President Erdogan. A lot of things going wrong for Turkey right now. They just pulled their country out of the Istanbul Conventions, European agreement that meant to protect women. And he also just sacked his new central bank governor. That s four central bank governors in two years. The economy is not doing well. The Turkish lira is getting crushed, his domestic popularity not going well. And as a consequence, he s cracking down on the pro-Kurdish People s Democratic Party, the HDP. In fact
climbed in morning trade on news that it had formed a joint venture with Kia Motors to manufacture Kia vehicles in Malaysia.
At 9.30am, the counter was up six sen or 4.17% to RM1.50 on the back of 1.82 million shares traded.
The two parties have agreed to undertake production and assembly of vehicles under the Kia marque in Malaysia via a new JV company called Kia Malaysia Sdn Bhd.
Bermaz Auto will have 33.33% stake in the company with the remainder going to Kia Motors.
The group has also subscribed to a 65% stake in Dinamikjaya Motors Sdn Bhd, which has been awarded the distributorship and sale of parts and provision of after-sales service of Kia vehicles in Malaysia.