Carnival of Venice: Ulysse Nardin’s New Minute Repeater
Ulysse Nardin’s San Marco minute repeater, introduced in the late 1980s, was a bold rebuke to the so-called “quartz crisis,” which at the time seemed to herald the obsolescence of the complicated mechanical wristwatch. This year, in advance of this spring’s Baselworld watch fair, Ulysse Nardin again struts its stuff as a producer of ornately designed chiming watches with the release of the new Carnival of Venice.Like the San Marco, the Minute Repeater Carnival of Venice takes its inspiration from Italy’s legendary “City of Canals.” It also uses minuscule automatons, called “Jaquemarts,” which are set into the dial and move in sync with the chiming of the activated minute repeater. On this watch, the Jaquemarts are two masked figures in the dial’s center (masks are a longstanding tradition of the Carnival of Venice, the historic festival from which the watch derives its name), who lift their masks as the repeater chimes the hou

My First Grail Watch: Peter Stas
Welcome back to an original watches-dealer feature, "My First Grail Watch".? In this series, we ask prominent people in the watch industry about the first timepiece that they lusted after.watches-dealer (ABTW):?Who are you and what is your relationship to the watch?industry?Peter Stas (PS): CEO and co-founder of Frederique Constant, the passionate watch manufacturer from Geneva.ABTW:?What was your?first?grail?watch?PS: A Bucherer classical Day-Date-24H automatic watch in a yellow gold case with white dial. Beautiful watch from the nineties.ABTW:?Was there ever a time in your life when you could afford it?PS: I could afford this one because Bucherer was at the time a house brand producing gold-plated cases. Basically, they were executing same strategy as Frederique Constant today: make beautiful classical watches and keep prices under control, offer genuine value.ABTW:?What did you like so much about the?watch?PS: Ultra classical, but of that day, not retro. Its nicely decorated mechani

Jaquet Droz The Charming Bird Automaton Watch Sings And Dances
Museum objects produced by Jaquet Droz and his contemporaries (seen here) in the 18th century often take the form of automaton birds geared to emulate in eerie detail actual birds complete with movement and sound. Bird songs were produced by moving a piston style tube in and out of a shaft rapidly. A small air hole would whistle, sounding remarkably like a real bird. The mechanical bird figurines were designed to often have moving heads, wings, and even beaks. These machines were often parts of ornate clocks.For the first time ever, Jaquet Droz has produced a miniature automaton bird small enough to put into a timepiece. The Charming Bird watch features a bubble in the sapphire crystal for the bird, and a mechanical bird call to reproduce the sounds of a bird song. The remarkable movement developed by Jaquet Droz is exactly what the brand should have been working on from day one. Jaquet Droz smartly designed The Charming Bird with an open movement architecture so that the entire mechan

new member with a question
Hi guys,I am new here .. i got few rolexes and looking for my 1st AP. I saw this on chrono24, is this model popular ? 1st time I see it..chrono24.ae/audemarspigue...-id4115488.htmIsn't the price kinda low for a annual calender ?

Lets see some BLNR on Nato straps
Do they work well with one another?