Next week, the German watchmaking house plans to proudly present its unique A. Lange & Sohne Lange 1 Time Zone Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este wrist watch. Limited to just one piece, this timekeeper is a meticulously redecorated version of the original A. Lange & Sohne Lange 1 Time Zone (Ref. 116.039) model that was presented almost exactly a year ago.
The new Dievas Shadow Stealth automatic diving watch looks like a product of a very successful crossbreeding between their Focal and Reaper tactical timekeepers. Featuring a highly contrast black-and-yellow color scheme, the watch also offers an extremely scratch-resistant black finish, since its stainless steel body is hardened in a sort of carbon bath and then treated with plasma, which forms a very thin, but also very hard coating on its surface.
Speaking the same, easily recognizable design language that we have already seen last year when the German brand introduced its “professional” Limes Endurance Neptun 2 1000m diver, the new Limes Endurance Leviathan automatic diving watch comes in a slightly larger body, but features a more “civil”, casual appearance thanks to the new, less technocratic bezel that sports the familiar Rolex-style diving scale.
It has been 10 years already that the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (DGzRS) service started using MG’s Rescue-Timer watch as its official timekeeper. Celebrating this milestone, the German watchmaker has prepared two limited edition versions of the device. Renamed as Mühle Glashütte S.A.R. Anniversary-Timer, the watch now comes with a bi-color ceramic bezel and even features an extremely scratch-resistant DLC coating on one of its two versions.
Unveiled earlier this month, the new Hanhart Pioneer Racemaster GTM automatic chronograph watch seems to be based on their older Hanhart Pioneer MonoScope self-winding chrono that was presented back in January, 2012. Powered by the same movement and coming in the same stainless steel case, the watch features a different bezel and sports a color scheme that just screams ’70s!
First unveiled just over three years ago, the gorgeous Zeitwerk from the German watchmaking Juggernaut has already survived a number of limited editions. Now, the brand reintroduces the timekeeper as A. Lange & Sohne Zeitwerk Handwerkskunst model adding to the mix a new dial that successfully combines rhodiumed white gold and their signature “German silver”: the traditional white alloy of copper, nickel and zinc.
The German watchmaker Sinn has fairly recently presented its new Sinn Tachymetric Chronograph Manufactum Limited Edition automatic watch. As the name implies, the timekeeper, which is limited to just 100 numbered pieces, is going to be sold exclusively through the numerous stores of the German retail chain Manufactum GmbH & Co. KG. Although its dial looks somewhat weird, the watch makes a very solid impression thanks to its high legibility and the highly reliable Swiss made movement that powers the gadget.
Compared to the yesterday’s gorgeous Zenith Pilot Big Date Special Edition (Ref. 03.2410.4010/21.C722) automatic timekeeper this new Archimede Pilot OR2 limited edition watch may not look as intense and it definitely plays in a different league when it comes to hardware that makes it tick, however, it is also about nine times less expensive and, equipped with a NOS movement from a German ebauche maker, is certainly more exclusive.
First revealed early this year at the annual SIHH 2012 event, the new A. Lange & Sohne Grande Lange 1 not only sports cosmetic differences here and there. The new dress watch is powered by a brand new hand-wound caliber that, while quite thin and equipped with only one (albeit very big one) mainspring barrel, will keep on ticking for whole 72 hours after being fully wound: a perfect power reserve if you plan to wear this elegant beauty only on office days.
The new Sinn U2 Meisterbund.III, a professional grade diving watch that was created exclusively for the Japanese market, is a nicely designed hybrid that takes the best features of the German brand’s bestselling models. Packed into a compact body, which is crafted from the highly corrosion-resistant steel alloy used for making submarine hulls, the new watch seems to be inspired by a nuclear submarine.
