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Breitling Navitimer Blue Sky 60th Anniversary Chrono

First presented in 1952 as a professional navigation instrument for pilots, the Navitimer collection of ultra-luxury “aviators” has long since transformed into a luxury timekeeper, which is only rarely used to measure average speed or fuel consumption of the aircraft.

However, it remains one of their flagships and, featuring their first in-house Caliber B01, offers an impressive combination of functionality, readability, and high build quality. Prepare to love the 2012 limited edition Breitling Navitimer Blue Sky 60th Anniversary automatic chronograph!

Panerai Luminor Submersible 1950 Amagnetic Titanium

At the annual SIHH 2013 trade show, the Italians officially introduced their Panerai Luminor Submersible 1950 Amagnetic Titanium (PAM 389) automatic diver. Despite being their first attempt at making a timekeeper possessing antimagnetic properties, the new member of the Luminor Submersible collection offers an impressive level of resistance to magnetic fields of whole 40,000 A/m.

Baume & Mercier Capeland Tourneau (Ref. 10088)

Well, it’s official: B&M finally introduces its first limited edition model designed exclusively for their U.S. customers. Destined to be sold -again: exclusively- through Turneau, one of the largest luxury retailers in the United States, the Baume & Mercier Capeland Tourneau will be produced in a limited party of just 250 pieces. And it will be expensive, too.

Luminox Atacama Field Day-Date 1945 Quartz

For the upcoming year, the American watchmaker has updated its military-styled Atacama series. Soon to be offered as Luminox Atacama Field Day-Date 1945 (ref. A.1945), the quartz-powered gadget is noticeably larger than the previous version and now features a slightly facelifted, more sober-looking dial.

Deep Blue Daynight Recon 500M Automatic Diver

The automatic Deep Blue Daynight Recon 500M is one of the most attractive “diving tools” on the market if you don’t count in the last year’s CALDIVER 500 “complication” model. Rated for 500 meters of water resistance, it features a case, which is not only robust, but also dressy in its own rugged way, and a unidirectional 120-click rotating bezel with the usual submersion timer. That, as well as a nice combination of their signature tritium tubes on hands and hour markers, and Superluminova-painted indices and minute marks on the ceramic bezel inlay, makes the Daynight Recon not only easily readable but also a real pleasure to look at!

Luminox Mariner Series 6250 Quartz Diver

Usually associated with ‘tactical’ timepieces that come in durable and feather-light polyurethane bodies, from time to time the watchmaking specialist introduces similarly specced timekeepers packed in dressier, stainless steel bodies. Though designed with us, civilians, in mind, the new Luminox Mariner Series 6250 family still features an almost unrivaled nighttime legibility thanks to the use of T25-type micro-tubes filled with mildly radioactive tritium gas.