SIHH 2012

[Ikemi]

A few highlights being released from SIHH 2012 ...

JLC Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqhL4v6Xeoo&fea...


AP ROO Diver Forged Carbon:



http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/2012/1/16/first-look-...


Richard Mille RM56 Sapphire Glass Tourbillion (Limited to 5 pieces at $1.7M):



http://blog.perpetuelle.com/sihh/sihh-2012-richard...


JLC Deep Sea Vintage Chronograph:

[Miguel Alvarez]

That JLC is uber sexy. WANT.

[Easty-5]

Miguel Alvarez said:

That JLC is uber sexy. WANT.

Which one? The Sphérotourbillon or Deep sea?

That Sphérotourbillon is just beautiful. Without a shadow of a doubt that is my lottery win watch!!

[Miguel Alvarez]

The Deep Sea. The first few didn't register on the want-o-meter.

[Hoofy]

I wouldn't use the word "beautiful" on the first one. It's impressive but, ultimately, with that lump of open heart tourbillon movement, it doesn't make sense with the rest of the face. The watch geek in me loves it and I would stare at it all day, but from an aesthetic perspective, it's awful.

And as for that Richard Mille...

</something only poor people say>

Edited by Hoofy on Tuesday 17th January 15:34

[tuffer]

New IWC pilots are looking pretty sweet as well.

[Hoofy]

tuffer said:

New IWC pilots are looking pretty sweet as well.

Kinda agree. I like the slighly bigger Mark XVII but not keep on the triple date window. It reminds me of a Timex or something equally cheap that did that.

[CardShark]

JLC Deep Sea Vintage for me, please

The RM looks uber techie cool, the AP not so. Crowns that look like they need spanners to operate would really p me off, not a fan of that look at all...

[andy_s]

tuffer said:

New IWC pilots are looking pretty sweet as well.

If you mean this one -

(IWC)

I'm not quite so keen; they've put a lot of faux vintage into the watch - which is OK - aged lume, 1940's B-Uhr numerals, indices and hand set, 'Observers' watch min/hour tracks, but then put, (quite clumsily I think), a chronograph function over the top, modern pushers/crown and that awful rolling date. I've never been sure whether ceramic cases are a good thing or not either.
On the bright side I sort of like what they've done with the chrono - a 60min scale, and they've kept the hour track quite discrete - but look how it chops into or under the registers....mmmmm....not convinced, bit of a mish-mash I think. (And 48mm...)

The JLC Deep Sea chrono is also a bit of a marriage between two styles too - which works better I think - it's like taking a Deep Sea and marrying it to a Heuer Bund or Zenith Cairelli, which sort of makes better (aesthetic) sense imo. They've left out the date too - which may be a step too far for some but I think it works better without and can see why they did leave it out.

(Interestingly, this makes the JLC Deep Sea a 'compax' or 'uni-compax' rather than what most people would describe as a bi-compax due to the two chrono registers.
In fact compax was used by UG to describe the number of complications in a line of their watches, so a bi-compax would be a chrono, (with any number of registers), plus a date for example.
Even stranger, given 'bi-compax' is perhaps the most used of the compax terms, UG didn't actually have a 'bicompax' named watch; these were designated according to use, hence Dato-Compax or Aero-Compax...)

Edited by andy_s on Tuesday 17th January 18:55

[tuffer]

^ Agreed, I prefer this one:

[Cuchillo]

Is that watch correct?

Didn't Samoa "move" over the International Date Line to be aligned NZ and Oz?

[tuffer]

Cuchillo said:

Is that watch correct?

Didn't Samoa "move" over the International Date Line to be aligned NZ and Oz?

Yes, I imagine these will either become collectors editions or be going very cheap

[andibrook]

Just got back from the SIHH show, although I was buying for the shop I did order a little something for myself...



I did see this handwound cartier tourbillon which was stunning

[tertius]

andibrook said:

Just got back from the SIHH show, although I was buying for the shop I did order a little something for myself...

Must say I'm really liking some of Montblanc's new designs. Not entirely convinced by that one but I bet it's amazing in the metal.

To the OP, although that JLC Duometre looks truly amazing, and the video is wonderful, I do find the fact that the bit that actually tells the time is such a small area of the dial a bit off-putting.