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Luminox Brightens Pacific Diver 

Luminox adds bright colors to its Pacific Diver Series with a pair of 200-meter dive watches with new tropics-inspired orange and yellow hues.

One of two new models in the Luminox Pacific Diver series.

The new watches extend the color options within the watchmaker’s Pacific Diver 3120 collection, a solid group of 44mm three-hand date models with superior easy-to-read dials, tough unidirectional carbon bezels and a wide array of steel and rubber bracelet options.

Luminox of course has long separated itself from the pack of watchmakers offering quartz-powered dive watches thanks to its unique application of self-powered micro-gas tube illumination on its watch dials and hands.

Here, Luminox places illuminated green hour markers around each dial with orange illumination at the 12 o’clock location and on the minute hand.

The watchmaker says this Luminox Light Technology will provide glowing source of dial-reading assistance for twenty-five years.

Price: $645.

Specifications: Luminox Pacific Diver 

Movement: Quartz Ronda 515 with 50-month battery life.

Case:44mm by 12mm steel with Carbonox uni-directional rotating bezel fitted at 12 o’clock with a protected colored light tube, screwed-in sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating, screw-in protected crown and case back. 200-meters of water resistance.

Strap: Yellow or orange rubber. 

Dial: Yellow or orange with black and colored light tube markers. Hands also with colors light tubes. 

Price: $645.

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Porsche Design Celebrates the Porsche 911

Porsche Design celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Porsche 911 with a new anniversary edition of its original Chronograph 1, the first blackened steel Porsche Design watch from 1972.

The new Porsche Design Chronograph 1 – 911 S/T.

The new model, the Chronograph 1 – 911 S/T, is a flyback chronograph that features design elements and colors that specifically pay homage to the Porsche 911 S/T 2.4.

Porsche Design is reserving the new watch for the owners of the newest Porsche 911 S/T. 

The car is known for its lightweight design concept, which is why Porsche Design built cases for the new watch in lightweight uncoated and sandblasted titanium, and in two hues: Ceramica (high gloss) or Brilliant Silver.

The black dial of the new watch, framed by a black bezel ring, mimics the car’s instrument panel, as does the green and red minute scale, which includes a red 60 to echo the look of the car’s retro rev counter.

The dial of the new Chronograph 1 – 911 S/T also features a day display in both German and English with the date colored in a brilliant phosphorous green. The white stop-seconds hand, which echoes the rev counter pointer, is coated with a generous amount of SuperLuminova.

Finally, Porsche Design has copied the font used to indicate the car’s gear shift pattern and applied it to the dial on the new watch, specifically on the chronograph sub-dials. The shift pattern itself can also be found on the dial.

Inside Porsche Design fits its excellent COSC-certified Porsche Design WERK 01.240 with flyback function and specially designed rotor available three options: high-gloss, silver or black. The movement is visible behind a sapphire crystal caseback.

Porsche Design offers the Chronograph 1 – 911 S/T in a Heritage version that incudes a Classic Cognac-colored genuine leather strap and a winding rotor on the back that features the Porsche crest. The S/T version includes a black leather strap and the S/T-branded rotor. Both versions come with the additional titanium bracelet.

All watches will have the limited edition number (of 1,963) engraved on the back of the watch. Porsche Design is also including a range of accessories with each watch, including a plaque featuring the 911 S/T image and the individual limitation number.

Price: $13,500.

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Bell & Ross Add a Green Chrono to BR 05

Bell & Ross mixes nature and architecture with the new BR 05 Chrono Green Steel, the latest model in its BR 05 series of ‘rounded square’ designs.

The new Bell & Ross BR 05 Chrono Green Steel.

While we saw a similar sun-ray green dial from Bell & Ross earlier this year when the watchmaker introduced a gold-cased, three-hand model (BR 05 Green Gold), this newer model appears even more contemporary, especially as a steel chronograph.

Steel, after all, shines in any urban area, and with the geometric, multi-level BR 05 case and fully integrated bracelet, the watch’s so-called ‘urban spirit’ is evident.

“The case and strap are one,” notes Bell & Ross Creative Director Bruno Belamich. “This design is a nod to a type of watch that first appeared in the 1970s. Transposed into the Bell & Ross identity, we were able to achieve a result that is at once clear, modern and graphic.”

The new BR 05 Chrono Green Steel joins a wide range of Bell & Ross chronographs, many of which are also powered by the Sellita-based self-winding BR-CAL.326 movement.

Bell & Ross fits an eye-catching automotive-inspired 360-degree rotor to the movement, which is visible through a sapphire caseback. 

Price: $6,200 (rubber strap) and $6,700 (steel bracelet). 

 

Specifications: Bell & Ross BR 05 Chrono Green Steel 

Movement: Automatic Caliber BR-CAL.326 (Sellita base) powering  hours, minutes, small seconds at 9 o’clock and date. Chronograph: 30-minute counter at 3 o’clock, central chronograph seconds.

Case: 42mm by 14.25mm satin-polished steel. Screw-down crown. Crown guard. Sapphire crystal and sapphire case-back with 360° oscillating weight. Water-resistance to 100 meters.

Dial: Green sunray with applique indices filled with SuperLuminova. Satin-finished applique numerals. Metal skeletonized SuperLuminova-filled hour and minute hands. 

Strap: Green rubber or satin-polished steel with satin-polished steel folding buckle. 

Price: $6,200 (rubber strap) and $6,700 (steel bracelet).

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Vulcain Revisits Cricket Nautical 

Vulcain introduces a version of its Cricket Nautical dive watch with a new design that echoes the original from 1961. The new model retains the Nautical’s pioneering alarm and dive-time display but adds a sapphire crystal to the 42.2mm steel case. 

The newest Vulcain Cricket Nautical.

As one of the first dive watches with an alarm, the Cricket Nautical extended the independent watchmaker’s primary claim to fame as a premier Swiss manufacturer of alarm watches.

The new Cricket Nautical makes it a simple task to read the dial indications underwater with two superimposed dials. One of the dials is fixed and the other rotates (via a crown at 4 o’clock) to calculate diving decompression times.

Vulcain’s proprietary system features a rectangular aperture that displays the stop times required at the typical diving depths of nine meters, six meters and three meters when ascending after an extended dive.

Vulcain offers its own ‘Triple Case Back’ case design that acts as a resonance chamber to project the alarm during a dive. A clear caseback version, nicely embellished with the stylized Vulcain V, is also available as an option. (See full specifications below). Likewise, Vulcain also offers a choice of a sapphire or acrylic crystal.

Inside Vulcain fits its owns manual-wind Caliber Vulcain Cricket Manufacture V-10 and protects it with a case water resistant to 300 meters.

Vulcain offers two different dial options with the new Cricket Nautical, each faithful to the original watch from 1961. One option features a black dial, faux-patina indexes and hands and an emerald green minute track.

The second option also features a black dial but with white Super-LumiNova hour markers and hands and a blue minute track. 

Price: $4,862. 

 

Specifications: Vulcain Cricket Nautical

Movement: Vulcain Cricket Manufacture V-10, a hand-wound alarm movement with two barrels, 18,000 vph and a 42-hour power reserve. Decoration includes nickel-plated treatment, blued screws, skeleton ratchets (on sapphire case back version). Functions: Hours, minutes, center seconds, alarm, decompression scale adjustable via screw-in crown at 4 o’clock. Alarm duration is twenty seconds.

Case: 42.2mm by 17.35mm steel with‘Triple Case Back’ that acts as a resonance chamber, allowing the alarm function to be used underwater, or sapphire crystal version embellished with the stylized “V”. Water resistance to 300 meters. 

Dial: Semi-matte black dial with decompression tables. The domed sapphire crystal is treated with an anti-reflective coating; a domed plexiglass version is also available. 

Strap: Black leather with a water-resistant carbon texture, steel pin buckle.

Price: $4,862.

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Oris Celebrates Hank Aaron 

Oris celebrates baseball hall-of-famer Hank Aaron with a limited-edition Big Crown Pointer Date, a debut that kicks off the watchmaker’s new collaboration with the non-profit Hank Aaron Chasing the Dream Foundation.

The new Oris Hank Aaron Limited Edition

With a design based on the well-known Oris Big Crown Pointer Date, the Hank Aaron Limited Edition features a blue, red and white color scheme inspired by Hank Aaron’s baseball uniform. But the colors here are subtle, with blue and red simply outlining numerals and the minutes ring.

 

The watch’s blue leather strap includes white stitching to echo Aaron’s baseball glove. Oris explains that the subtlety is offered to “reflect Aaron’s humble attitude.”

In addition to the blue leather strap, Oris includes an interchangeable blue, red and white NATO fabric strap and a strap change tool.

 

“Aaron was also one of the greats in Major League Baseball (MLB) history,” Oris notes. “Throughout his career, he encountered racism on and off the field, yet rose above it with grace and dignity to become a symbol of perseverance and strength through adversity, and an agent of social change.”

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Oris will celebrate the launch of the Hank Aaron Limited Edition starting July 25 with a multi-day celebration with the Atlanta Braves. All past winners of the Major League Baseballs’ Hank Aaron Award (awarded since 1999) will receive one of the 2,297 pieces of the limited-edition watch.

 

The 40mm steel automatic watch features a central pointer date hand with a red tip, a fluted bezel and a large crown.

 

Oris has engraved the back with an image of Aaron and his famous cross-handed batting stance.

Price: $2,500.

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