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Another week down, another round-up of all the latest watches new in our regular series, The Wind Up. In this week’s instalment, we’ll be featuring new pieces from Girard-Perregaux, Longines, Jaquet Droz and Ulysse Nardin. Enjoy gents!
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Girard-Perregaux Drops New Novelties For 2020
Girard-Perregaux has just launched a handful of new and exciting watches, including a new pillar of the Bridges collection, the Free Bridge. It has also announced a series of limited edition pieces featuring crafted with onyx and pink gold, aptly named the Infinity series. The Free Bridge timepiece pays homage to Girard-Perregaux’s Three Bridges from 1867 but in a super contemporary fashion. Girard-Perregaux has treated its 1966 and Vintage 1945 Infinity Editions to a sumptuous black look with the use of onyx. And finally, there is the Cosmos Infinity Edition which heralds in the latest piece from the original 2019 model finished with titanium and onyx throughout.
Our pick is the 1966 40mm Infinity Edition Watch which is powered by a GP03300-1402 automatic movement with pink gold oscillating weight and cops a 46-hour power reserve.
- Brand: Girard-Perregaux
- Model: 1966 40mm Infinity Edition
- Reference: 49555-11-632-BB60
- Case Diameter: 40mm
- Case Thickness: 9.4mm
- Case Material: Stainless steel, polished
- Water Resistance: 30m (3 ATM)
- Movement: Calibre GP03300-1402, self-winding mechanical, 28,800 vph (4 Hz), 27 jewels, pink gold oscillating weight
- Power Reserve: 46 hours (minimum)
- Strap: Black alligator leather with black and pink gold-coloured stitching, triple-fold steel buckle
- Price: USD$11,900 (limited to 188 pieces)
Shop the Girard‑Perregaux m Infinity
Longines Heritage Military Marine Nationale
Once upon a time, the Longines Heritage Military Marine Nationale served the French Navy. Fast forward half a century and that iconic model, reference 5774, is reintroduced to the modern landscape. It still carries with it the tell-tale signs of a functional, useful and wonderfully nostalgic watch but with subtle touches of modernity throughout. I particularly like the blued steel hands which contrast well with the creamy dial. Longines is hitting all the right notes at the moment, and the Heritage Military Marine Nationale is no exception to that.
- Brand: Longines
- Model: Heritage Military Marine Nationale
- Reference: L2.833.4.93.2
- Case Diameter: 38.5mm
- Case Thickness: 12.3mm
- Case Material: Stainless steel
- Water Resistance: 30m (3 ATM)
- Movement: Automatic, Calibre L888.5
- Power Reserve: 64 hours
- Strap: Cognac calfskin leather with steel pin buckle
- Price (at launch): EUR 1,920
Jaquet Droz Petite Heure Minute Relief Dragon
Horology meets art with the new Jaquet Droz Petite Heure Minute Relief Dragon. Crafted with onyx, red gold, yellow gold and a new mineral named “Spiderman” jasper, the Petite Heure Minute Relief Dragon is a wonderfully elaborate, supremely ornate timepiece. The use of the “Spiderman” jasper mineral enhances the look of the Petite Heure Minute Relief Dragon, with plenty of browns and shades of ocher and burgundy adorning the dial throughout. Jaquet Droz is perhaps one of the best watchmakers in the business that can marry the worlds of high horology with art in the way that it does, and the Petite Heure Minute Relief Dragon further exemplifies that.
- Brand: Jaquet Droz
- Model: Petite Heure Minute Relief Dragon
- Reference: J005023292
- Case Diameter: 41 mm
- Case Thickness: 13.77 mm
- Case Material: 18-karat red gold
- Water Resistance: 30 m (3 bar)
- Movement: Jaquet Droz Cal. 2653.Si, self-winding, silicon balance spring and pallet horns, double barrel, 28 jewels, 28,800 vph
- Power Reserve: 68 hours
- Strap: Rolled-edge handmade black alligator with 18-karat red gold ardillon buckle
- Price (at launch): CHF 74,550 (Numerus Clausus, 8 pieces)
Sarpaneva x Moomin
To celebrate 75 years of Moomins, the central characters in a series of books and a comic strip by Swedish-Finn illustrator and writer Tove Jansson, Sarpaneva has created a limited run of 75 pieces to mark this special occasion. There will be three models that make up the 75-piece limited run, 25 pieces each. Each piece features three-layered skeletonised dials with 8 hand-painted Swiss Super-Luminova emission colours in varying order, each creating a unique combination. The watches are beautiful, playful and characteristically Sarpaneva. Fans of different and avant-garde, here you are!
- Brand: Sarpaneva (S.U.F. Helsinki)
- Model: Sarpaneva x Moomin — 75th Anniversary
- Case Diameter: 38.7 mm
- Case Thickness: 8.9 mm
- Case Material: SUPRA 316L/4435 stainless steel
- Water Resistance: 100 m (10 ATM)
- Movement: Soprod A10 calibre, mechanical automatic, 28,800 vph (4 Hz)
- Power Reserve: 42 hours
- Strap: Canvas with stainless steel pin buckle, 20 mm
- Price: Price (at launch) EUR 5,000 (excl. taxes); EUR 6,200 incl. 24% Finnish VAT
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Ulysse Nardin BLAST
Ulysse Nardin has introduced a new line of watches named BLAST, the latest collection of skeletonised tourbillon timepieces from the brand. Within its open-worked structure lies an automatic silicium tourbillon sitting in an X-shaped cage. Each piece will have the tell-tale signs of a typical skeleton tourbillon from Ulysse Nardin: a rectangular frame, the 3-horned lug system, a smooth bezel and a vertically oriented movement (with the barrel at 12 o’clock and the tourbillon at 6 o’clock). The BLAST is an audacious and eye-watering conspicuous attempt at forgoing tradition that just seems to work on so many levels. Fantastic stuff from Ulysse Nardin!
- Brand: Ulysse Nardin
- Model: BLAST Tourbillon
- Reference: 1723-400-3A/03 (titanium blue); collection also includes refs 1723-400/BLACK, 1723-400-3A/00, 1725-400/02
- Case Diameter: 45 mm
- Case Thickness: 13 mm
- Case Material: Titanium (base variants); 18k rose gold + titanium (premium variants)
- Water Resistance: 50 m (5 ATM)
- Movement: Automatic, Calibre UN-172, flying silicon tourbillon with X-shaped cage, platinum micro-rotor, 18,000 vph
- Power Reserve: 72 hours
- Strap: Structured rubber with patented self-deploying folding clasp; leather option available
- Price: Approx. USD 54,000 (titanium variants at launch; premium blue PVD titanium + rose gold variants approx. USD 67,000)
Breitling Endurance Pro
Here is the latest and greatest from Breitling, the Endurance Pro. Encased in 44mm of Breitling’s proprietary alloy Breitlight, the Endurance Pro features a thermo-compensated SuperQuartz movement that is 10 times more accurate than a conventional quartz mechanism. Lightweight, easy to wear and very easy on the eye, the Endurance Pro is available in a variety of colours with matching straps. Pretty easy on your pocket, too.
If you enjoyed The Wind Up and would like to continue reading about watches, you can head on over to my blog, Haulogerie, where I delve a bit deeper into the wonderful world of horology.
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- Brand: Breitling
- Model: Endurance Pro 44
- Reference: X82310
- Case Diameter: 44 mm
- Case Thickness: 12.5 mm
- Case Material: Breitlight® (proprietary polymer composite; 3.3× lighter than titanium, non-magnetic, hypoallergenic)
- Water Resistance: 100 m / 10 bar
- Movement: Breitling Caliber 82, Thermocompensated SuperQuartz™, COSC-certified (±10 sec/year), quartz chronograph with 1/10th-second and 30-minute timers
- Power Reserve: Approx. 3–4 years (battery)
- Strap: Rubber
- Price: AUD$5,590
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