Vol 27

REVOLUTION DIGITAL

Celebrating the Machine with a Heartbeat

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Founder’s Note
BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS, IT WILL BE known the globe over that the world’s largest watch group, Swatch Group, has pulled out of the world’s biggest watch fair, Baselworld. And I would like to applaud and bow to the courage and conviction of Swatch G
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Contributors
Christopher Beccan is a freelance writer and photographer known for his fondness of vintage watches and whisky. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Bexsonn.com – a successful blog specialising in all things related to watches and “liquid gold”.
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The Phillips Singers
After a super-successful outing at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July, Singer Reimagined landed in London for a watch and car showing at Phillips. Amid a great party atmosphere, Singer Vehicle Design debuted the new DLS car (above) in the stunnin
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WHISKY HOUR: THE GLENLIVET CODE & AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK QP CERAMIC
In 2016, The Glenlivet introduced a limited-edition, non-age statement whisky that only reveals its name and nothing else, no cask finish info, no tasting notes and its matte-black bottle doesn’t even reveal its colour: The Glenlivet Cipher. A smart
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Hublot Celebrates Summer
Few places have such detailed and rich narratives as the Côte d’Azur’s renowned Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc. Writers, actors, high-profile business people and royalty have all passed through its corridors, each adding character to the hotel’s Napoleon III-
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A New Newman
Well, not new, but new to the market: Luxury pre-owned retailer Xupes has surprised those who assume the world has been combed for Rolex “Paul Newman” Daytonas. Perhaps that’s the general situation, but the star of the launch of the Xupes.com “Hard t
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A Dashing Site
With interest in vintage Heuer watches at a high, the timing is perfect for the return of what is probably the best-ever online resource. Collectors and enthusiasts will rejoice at the relaunch of Jeff Stein’s OnTheDash website. For over 15 years one
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Glory Glory Man United
As the Manchester United players walked on to the pitch for their last Premier League game of the 2017/18 season, all 11 were wearing TAG Heuer Connected Modular 45 Manchester United Special Edition timepieces (far right). Developed especially for th
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Past Times:dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie only ranks behind Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and the Angel Gabriel as the most famous trumpet player of all time. He is credited with inventing the sound of modern jazz – the bebop, so named for the fast, staccato urgency of improvi
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They Wear It Well
“I’ve always loved spectacles and, after working in property for a period, I decided to set up a business and do something on my own, so I opened a shop selling sunglasses and eyewear. About four or five years later, I decided the time was right to s
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Deep Breath
It’s a balmy early summer afternoon in Antibes. Champagne is being poured, cigars are being lit, and Rolling Stones covers of slightly questionable quality are drifting up on the breeze from the courtyard of Bastion St-Jaume. We are at the start of t
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Husqvarna And Bamford Watch Department
The truism that “luxury is all about personalisation” is voiced more often than ever these days, be it in relation to shoes, clothes, shotguns, cars, jewellery, watches (of course) – and even motorcycles. Harley-Davidson has capitalised on the desire
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Black Is Black
BULGARI OCTO FINISSIMO SKELETON MOVEMENT Hand-wound BVL Calibre 128SK Finissimo CASE DLC-treated 40mm sandblasted titanium case with transparent caseback; water-resistant to 30m STRAP Black DLC-treated titanium bracelet fitted with a folding clasp Wi
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Chanel And The Lion’s Share
CHANEL MONSIEUR DE CHANEL CHRONOSPHERE CLOCK MOVEMENT Chanel-designed, L’Épée-made manual-winding movement; hours and minutes on two rotating discs; 7-day power reserve; 2.5Hz, black galvanic treatment and palladium finishing CASE Glass sphere; base
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Dancing In The Moonlight
DIOR VIII MONTAIGNE “CLAIR DE LUNE” MOVEMENT Self-winding Sellita Calibre SW300 CASE Yellow gold; double-sided anti-reflective sapphire-crystal glass with white-gold-coloured metallisation; water-resistant to 50m STRAP Black alligator leather A sadly
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Spirit In The Sky
HUBLOT SPIRIT OF BIG BANG BLUE MOVEMENT HUB4700 self-winding chronograph movement with skeleton calendar display CASE 42mm, micro-blasted and polished blue ceramic case and bezel; white ceramic lugs STRAP White rubber with blue alligator and blue sti
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Flying The Flag For London
IWC BIG PILOT’S WATCH EDITION “BOUTIQUE LONDON” MOVEMENT IWC automatic manufacture Calibre 52010; 7-day power reserve CASE 46.2mm stainless steel; water-resistant to 60m STRAP Blue alligator leather At first, it’s just another classy blue job, the co
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Absolute Radio
JUNGHANS MEISTER MEGA MOVEMENT J101.65 multi-frequency radio-controlled movement CASE 38.4mm stainless steel; domed sapphire crystal; tinted mineral crystal caseback; water-resistant to 50m STRAP Stainless-steel bracelet with folding clasp Since the
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A Real Toric
PARMIGIANI FLEURIER TORIC QUALITÉ FLEURIER MOVEMENT Self-winding PF331-QF with a 55-hour power reserve CASE 40.8mm red or white gold; sapphire-crystal caseback; water-resistant to 30m STRAP Black alligator leather made by Hermès Choosing to throw its
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True Blue
SEIKO PRESAGE SPB075 MOVEMENT Automatic Calibre 6R15 CASE 40mm stainless steel; sapphire-crystal caseback; water resistant to 100m STRAP Blue crocodile-leather strap with a three-fold clasp and push button release In terms of value for money, it real
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Back To The Start
TUDOR 1926 MOVEMENT Self-winding Calibre 2824, or Calibre 2671 (for the 28mm version only); hours, minutes and seconds; 38-hour power reserve CASE 28, 36, 39 or 41mm stainless steel or steel and rose gold; water-resistant to 100m STRAP Matching metal
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Defying Gravity
ZENITH DEFY ZERO G MOVEMENT Manually wound El Primero 8812 S CASE 44mm rose gold or titanium; water-resistant to 100m STRAP Rose-gold or titanium bracelet or rubber and alligator-leather strap As a long-time owner of a vintage 1970s Zenith Defy, it w
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The Fiftysixcollection By Vacheron Constantin
It was 4 December 1956 when one Elvis Aaron Presley dropped into Sun Record Studios on Union Avenue, Memphis to see his friend and fellow musician Carl Perkins who was working with the then-unknown Jerry Lee Lewis. Together with another Sun artist, J
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CHOPARD L.U.C 1860 X THE RAKE & REVOLUTION
It is almost impossible to fully express how great a revelation Chopard’s L.U.C first automatic Calibre 1.96 was in the context of the mid-1990s. While Swiss mechanical watchmaking had pulled itself back from the brink of disaster represented by the
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Ultra-cool Omega
One hour, 53 minutes and 17 seconds. That’s all it took for Omega to sell the 2,012 examples of its stunning “Ultraman” re-edition. In so doing, it caused the internet, social media, chatrooms, forums and the brain of the man writing this article to
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BELL & ROSS X THE RAKE AND REVOLUTION BELLYTANKER “EL MIRAGE” AND “DUSTY” CHRONOGRAPHS
I have always cherished masters of self-invention, from David Bowie to Archie Leach. But what do Ziggy Stardust, and the irrepressibly suave Cary Grant have in common with the watch brand Bell & Ross? They’ve never let history get in their way. Rathe
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A New Crown
The fight for Formula 1 glory between Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton was compelling for several reasons. The two gifted young men battling it out for the greatest prize in motorsport were teammates who refused to play a team game, each focused on hi
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Shanghai Watch Gang
An issue that brands occasionally skirt around is that most of the luxury watches on the planet at any given time are being bought by Chinese people. And this is not limited to the Chinese in mainland China. For example, the figures you see for watch
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Montblanc Plays It Cool
When Montblanc decided to focus on its 1858 range of watches this year, it needed a hook to hang it on, a story that explains the collection’s existence, its reason for being. We had seen 1858 watches from the brand before, but they were less refined
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The Plastic Population
What is the point of journalism? For a magazine like this, the answer is fairly clear: to produce stories that people will hopefully enjoy, with perhaps a thing or two to learn along the way. It is a different matter in the world of so-called “hard n
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Kickass Watches
The heyday for martial arts movies was from the 1970s to the early-1990s, a period that saw the rise of fighting stars such as Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jet Li, Cynthia Rothrock, Don “The Dragon” Wils
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Richard Mille:a Class Of His Own
Despite the crudeness of the delivery, sometimes a message still resonates with irrefutable truth. And this is the case in an amusing video made by a YouTube pundit with an accent originating from one of the provincial outer boroughs of Manhattan. Wh
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French Lessons
There is no better way to step into the past of Abraham-Louis Breguet than by taking a historical tour of Paris. And, when it comes to planning such an adventure, there is no better person to talk to than Emmanuel Breguet, descendant of the watchmake
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Glashütte’s Next Famous Five
Nothing happens in a vacuum, so it might seem odd to credit one man with turning the sleepy German village of Glashütte into a Teutonic equivalent of Neuchâtel. One would prefer to attribute this to a series of events, a “perfect storm” as it were, b
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Masterstroke: The Gmt-master Part 2
The last instalment of our GMT story ended with the first of the new generation: the GMT-Master II. The birth of the GMT-Master II in 1983 heralded a number of new innovations to the line that still stand today, 35 years later. The first and arguably
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The Carrera:stayin’ Alive At 55
Anniversaries are the devices used by the watch industry to celebrate classic models. We get it. Hell, everybody from luggage manufacturers to car brands to camera companies does the same, and the record shops are overburdened with 50th Anniversary B
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Tooled Up:the Rolex Explorer II
We often hear the term “tool watch” or “professional watch” used about some of the most iconic and desirable timepieces. Dive watches were originally developed for divers to time descent and ascent periods via the rotating bezel that indicated elapse
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Finger On The Pulsar
Developed by the Hamilton Watch Company and its sub-contractor Electro/Data Inc and launched in 1972, the inaugural Pulsar P1 was the original electronic digital watch and one of the first consumer products to use a type of circuit chip. The Pulsar p
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Robert-jan Broer
Is it really true that you sold your car to buy your first Speedmaster? What were the circumstances and why? It was 1999 and I was a university student in The Hague. One evening, I was cycling through the city with some friends and suddenly I noticed
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Xavier De Roquemaurelceo Czapek
Czapek is a name most watch lovers are familiar with. How did the modern company come into being? Born in what is now the Czech Republic, and raised in Poland, watchmaker François Czapek moved to Switzerland in 1832. He met fellow Pole Antoine Norber
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Ian Callumjaguar Director Of Design
You knew at the age of three that you wanted to design cars. How did you turn the dream into reality? It became such a focus that other things became less important and, hence, less of a distraction. I was never great at cricket, football or rugby. I
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Ulrich Herzogoris Chairman
You’re wearing the Oris Big Crown ProPilot Calibre 114 GMT. Tell me about this latest in-house movement. Calibre 114 is the latest movement to come from the in-house know-how we have developed over the past four years and it shows what can be done wi
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A Different League
Marx must be turning in his grave – Karl, that is, not Groucho. As each of his exemplars of Communism is liberated, or at least loosened up a bit, its people swiftly demonstrate a penchant for acquisition and a taste for the finer things. Just look a

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