Ariel Adams

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Flying With Style: A. Lange & Sohne Saxonia Dual Time Watch

Timepieces are the original traveler’s gadget. In fact, historically speaking most long distance travel and navigation was reliant on suitable timing instruments. Back when A. Lange & Sohne only made pocket watches they would occasionally put together a watch with two dials and movements in it for clients who needed a watch to track two time zones–though they admit this was a rare type of project. Today’s fast travel has made it almost a necessity for travelers to have the ability to track the time at home in addition to the “local time” of where they are currently situated. Today’s READ MORE

Have Watch, Will Travel: Cartier Calibre Multi Time Zone Timepiece

Second to telling the time where you live, the most useful function a watch can have is the ability to tell you the time wherever else you might be. Travelers used to jet setting with a dedicated “world time” watch often never go back to a single time zone watch given the ease of reading the time at home and the time in their current location. Now I’ll do my best to use the word “time” sparingly for the rest of this article. World time watches usually rely on reference city discs that clutter up dials with lots of text. Cartier was READ MORE

For The Sake Of Complexity: Greubel Forsey Invention Piece Number 2 Watch

“Micro-decoration” (as I call it) is a thing of love. It is the process whereby fine watches are made even finer because of an enormous amount of time spent on making the movement look pretty. There are functional uses to decorating a movement – such as corrosion prevention and ensuring that parts fit together properly, but obsessively meticulous decoration is a matter of pride for watch makers. One of the most common types of decoration is something called “anglage.” This is literally the process of applying “angles” to the bridges and other components in a movement – and the 594 READ MORE

Montblanc Villeret Tourbillon Bi-Cylindrique Watch

A Study In Consistency Isochronism. A strange word that means a lot in the mechanical watch industry. The idea really being that something moving in the watch does so at a consistent rate–this is the basis of accuracy in a watch. Some high-end watches experiment with a trick to improve isochronism by using two parts that operate with some inherent error, but can be doubled to run side by side, doing the same thing with the error from each canceling out their aggregated error. At least that is more or less the idea. For those who aren’t physicists, let me READ MORE

New Richard Mille Watch Boutique In Beverly Hills

Richard Mille and John Simonian walk like good friends with arms around one another. They are smiling as though reminiscing about fond memories. Richard Mille is the man behind the phenomenally successful ultra high-end, technically sophisticated sports watch brand, while John Simonian has long been known as the most important name in Independent watch brands in the United States. In addition to being friends, these men are helping to redefine the face of contemporary luxury watches in America. Mr. Simonian is also the Richard Mille brand distributor in the Americas. A few years ago he not only recognized the potential in the brand, READ MORE

Sweat the Details: Richard Mille RM 030 Watch

There exists a place between gadgetry and luxury where Richard Mille watches are positioned. You absolutely must have an appreciation for mechanical gizmos to ‘get’ Richard Mille – even more so than you do for “normal” high-end mechanical watches. Forget for a moment that Richard Mille himself partially created the brand as an homage to the high-tech world of Formula 1 racing – these watches are officially meant to tantalize the eye and mind of the technophile. Luscious little technical details abound as Richard Mille watches playfully dismiss the traditional concept that a watch movement must be hidden by a dial. “Who READ MORE