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Grand Seiko Launches Katana-Inspired U.S. Exclusives 

The precision craftsmanship and materials required to created a Japanese Katana sword inspires three new U.S.-exclusive Grand Seiko watches.

Grand Seiko SBGA489 and SBGA491.

The debut trio offers a choice of stunning deep red, green or black dials, each framed in a 40mm diameter by 12.5mm stainless steel case. Each features a stainless steel bracelet with a three-fold clasp, a dual-curve sapphire crystal and a clear sapphire case back exposing the superb Spring Drive Automatic Caliber 9R65 (see specifications below).

The new Grand Seiko SBGA493 is a limited edition of 500 pieces.

Grand Seiko explains that the high-carbon steel known as kawagane used for the outer sharp edge of katana sword inspired the black dial of SBGA489 debut model. Similarly, dial artists echoed the strong inner core of the blade (the shingane) when creating the dark green dial of SBGA491.

For the limited-edition model SBGA493 with the striking red patterned dial Grand Seiko specifically references “the determination and fiery spirit needed to craft the blade.

The deep red color with yellow gold-tone accents is influenced by the heated blade during the forging process. The pattern emulates the radiating sparks created when the hammer strikes the blade.”

Grand Seiko is issuing the red-dialed edition (SBGA493) as a limited edition of 500 pieces available in September, each priced at $6,000. The black-dial model (SBGA489) and the green-dial model (SBGA491) are priced at $5,600, and both are available now.

Specifications: Grand Seiko Heritage Collection 44GS USA Exclusive 

Movement: Spring Drive Caliber 9R65 Driving system: Automatic Power reserve: 72 hours Accuracy: ± 1 second per day (± 15 seconds per month).

Grand Seiko Automatic Spring Drive 3-Day Caliber 9R65.

Case: 40mm by 12.5mm stainless steel case with dual-curved sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating, see-through screw case back, water resistance to 100 meters and superior magnetic resistance of 4,800 A/m.

Dials: Textured deep red (SBGA493), black (SBGA489) and green (SBGA491). 

Bracelet: Stainless steel with three-fold clasp and push-button release. Kimono fabric strap included with SBGA493, the limited edition model.

Prices: $6,000 (SBGA493) and $5,600 (SBGA489 and SBGA491).

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Bulova Debuts New Frank Lloyd Wright Watch 

Bulova extends its long association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation as the watchmaker debuts a new Limited Edition watch inspired by the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.

The newest Bulova Frank Lloyd Wright watch, inspired by the Wright-designed Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.

Bulova also launches the new watch to mark the centennial of this hotel, an architectural masterpiece designed and built by Wright from 1913-1922.

Bulova looked specifically to a geometric peacock detail found in the hotel’s mural and carpeting. The watch’s six-sided 41mm gold-tone stainless steel case references the hexagon at the center of the peacock while the colors and shapes on the printed graphic dial echo the colorful peacock design.

The watch is powered by a Miyota quartz movement, which Bulova protects with a curved mineral crystal and thirty-meters of water resistance. From the back of the watch, note the interesting glass insert specially printed with a line drawing of the Imperial Hotel façade.

Bulova individually numbers each watch and attaches the case to a blue calf leather strap with tonal stitching and a hot-stamped pattern on underside of the strap. 

Each watch will be sold inside a gift box with a story booklet and commemorative plaque. Bulova will make 1,000 Frank Lloyd Wright watches as part of the limited edition. Price: $495.

The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation was founded in 1940 by Wright to advance his legacy of organic architecture, is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, and owns Wright’s own homes, Taliesin and Taliesin West, along with his intellectual property. 

To see additional offerings within Bulova’s Frank Lloyd Wright Collection visit the website. 

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Luminox Expands Navy SEAL 3000 Series

Luminox expands its Original Navy SEAL 3000 EVO Series with a trio of watches sporting new shades of military-inspired colors.

One of the three new Luminox Original Navy SEAL 3000 EVO Series debuts, here with a sand-colored dial and matching rubber strap.

The series is the direct descendent of the Original Navy SEAL 3001 that has been officially licensed by the U.S. Navy since 1992.

The 43mm by 13mm Swiss quartz-powered watches, with their new sand, green or white dials and matching rubber bracelets (the white-dialed model features a black rubber strap), retain their robust, military approved specs.

These include 200-meters of water resistance, a tough Carbonox carbon-composite case, a sapphire crystal, a screw-in double security gasket crown and a unidirectional Carbonox bezel.

And as with all Luminox watches, the newest Original Navy SEAL 3000 EVO watches benefit from the watchmaker’s famed luminous dial treatment called Luminox Light Technology.

On these models Luminox places its self-powered micro gas light tubes on each of the hour markers and at the 12 o’clock position on the unidirectional turning bezel.

All the markers and hands on all three watches will glow in any light condition for up to twenty-five years. 

Price: $475.

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Hublot Unico Sky Blue Celebrates Summer 

Hublot celebrates the remainder of summer with the Big Bang Unico Sky Blue 42 mm, a new Big Bang model cased in light blue ceramic with a matching ceramic bezel and two matching straps.

The new Hublot Big Bang Unico Sky Blue 42.

As a ceramic-case pioneer, Hublot has created watches with myriad ceramic case colors, offering the lightweight, scratch-resistant material throughout its collections, and especially within the wide ranging Big Bang series.

While we’ve seen the light blue hue on a full ceramic model with a matching ceramic bracelet, this summer-themed edition of the Big Bang Unico sheds the bracelet and arrives with two straps instead.

Hublot’s emblematic six bezel screws contrast nicely against the blue ceramic bezel.

One is a white Velcro strap with a sports fastener and the second is a white and light blue lined natural rubber strap with a titanium deployant buckle.

The watch’s open dial reveals Hublot’s automatic HUB1280 caliber, a self-winding chronograph movement with a 72-hour power reserve. The movement’s gearing, date wheel and even its column wheel are fully visible from the dial, while its rotor, finished plates and escapement are visible through the watch’s sapphire back.

Hublot will make the the Big Bang Unico Sky Blue 42mm as a limited edition of 200 pieces.

Price: $23,800.

Specifications: Hublot Big Bang Unico Sky Blue 42 

(441.EX.5120.RX, limited to 200 pieces) 

Case: 42mm by 14.5mm light blue ceramic, polished and satin-finished with 100 meters of water resistance. Light blue ceramic and polished caseback. Light blue polished and satin-finished ceramic bezel. 

Movement: HUB1280 Unico Manufacture, automatic chronograph with 72-hour power reserve.  

Dial: Light blue, matte finish atop skeletonized design.  

Strap:  First strap: light blue and white lined rubber. Additional strap: white calfskin leather with Velcro fastener and light blue ceramic buckle. 

Price: $23,800.

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Chronoswiss Adds Purple Mystery to Open Gear ReSec Series

Chronoswiss expands its Open Gear ReSec collection with the purple-and-black-dialed Open Gear ReSec Voodoo.

The new Chronoswiss Open Gear ReSec Voodoo.

Meant to recall “ancient Voodoo rituals” the hand-cut guilloche dial is both dark and somewhat mysterious thanks to both its color and its multi-layer, regulator-style dial layout.

Named for its premier function (ReSec stands for Retrograde Seconds), the watch’s jumping seconds hand operates in a half-circle, leaping from the thirty seconds position back to start its arc to complete counting each minute.

The Open Gear design displays off-center hours (at 12 o’clock position) and a large central minutes hand in addition to the retrograde seconds display at the 6 o’clock position.

In addition to the regulator layout, the Open Gear ReSec Voodoo features all the expected Chronoswiss design codes, including a three-dimensional dial, an onion crown and a fluted bezel.

The watch’s case measures 44mm by 13.35mm and is coated with black DLC that Chronoswiss then decorates with a matte and vertical satin finish.

Here, Chronoswiss allows the viewer to penetrate the dark dial with extra bright Super-LumiNova pillars and an unusual luminous strap, both of which combine to add spooky allure to the limited edition model.

Chronoswiss creates its One Gear ReSec series with its caliber C. 301, an automatic movement built using an in-house jumping seconds module atop a sturdy ETA 2892 caliber.

Chronoswiss then coats the Open Gear ReSec Voodoo rotor purple to match the dial. The full movement is nicely decorated with Côtes de Genève, a polished pallet lever, escape wheel and screws and perlage-finished bridges and plates.

Chronoswiss will make fifty Open Gear ReSec Voodoo watches, each priced at $12,500.

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