Super high-end Swiss watch manufacturer Bovet created Song 28 Abilities 1 watch and it can actually adjust to DST changes. How? A revolutionary roller system that can be set at the touch of a button to display UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), AST (American Summer Time), EAS (European and American Summer Time) or EWT (European Winter Time) in any of the 24-hour time zones represented on the dial by 24 rollers.
It's an easy-to-read system but extremely complex in its construction, which may explain why Bovet estimates that it can only produce eight units a year. Indeed, the CHF 650,000 (about $711,400) watch, complete with perpetual calendar and flying tourbillon, has been in development since 2019, with Bovet scrapping the first finished version and then starting over from head to complete the unique DST function.
Patek Philippe crosses the line today
Photo: Patek Phillippe
Speaking of World Time watches, Patek Philippe, among other watchmaking achievements, is the absolute excellence of the World Time function, in which 24 time zones are all displayed in a single watch. Patek has been making these since 1937, but that doesn't mean it can't still innovate with the format: Its new example includes a date display as subtle as you want it to be. —and cross—the international date line.
What does it mean? On any World Stopwatch, the central hands indicate your local time while other time zones are displayed on a 24-hour dial offset from 24 cities around the world. When traveling, adjusting your local time zone east or west can put you across the date line, which often requires correcting the date.
With the amount of 76,590 USD Patek Philippe 5530GThe date adjusts itself forward or backward—a simple but mechanically complex concept (and now patented by Patek), with an innovative display: A date indicator around the outside of the dial is made from a hair-thin slice. glass, so as not to affect the legibility of the other dials.
Montblanc carbon-sucking chronograph
Photo: Montblanc
Carbon fiber—strong, lightweight, and available in a variety of textures—has become a favorite modern material for the luxury watch industry, which is also actively promoting its sustainability credentials at any given opportunity (usually tends to). Sensibly, Montblanc has refrained from making any specific ecological claims with its new product. 1858 Geosphere 0 Oxygen CARBO2while demonstrating ingenuity in harnessing emerging technology from the sustainability sector.
Over the past few years, several agencies have investigated the use of sequestered CO22 to produce carbon fiber composite materials. Montblanc supplier seizes CO2 from biogas production and mineral waste from recycling plants, from which a powder is obtained that feeds the nanofiber mixture called Carbo2. That was used to make the case for this $9,100 sports chronograph with Montblanc's unusual rotating globe GMT display.
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