Category: Watches
Beautiful reflection in a watch
This Frederique Constant worldtimer watch has many beautiful design elements, but the most stunning may be the mirror-like reflection on the inside lip of the bezel. Each city name around the dial has a stunning upside-down duplicate and you can really see it in this photo.
Foggy Hike
A foggy hike can be lovely, especially along the water.
Combining water color painting with love of watches and bracelets
My love for bracelets and watches has led to a new photo hobby, that of wrist-shots, which is obsessive, no doubt about it. Combining this with a love of water color painting is particularly fun.
My bracelets have been getting enough compliments in the last year that I’ve opened a store at http://www.vinchesidesigns.com, come visit if you are interested.
DeepBlue>Wood.1
This bracelet design for the DeepBlue series came out of a desire to change the color tone (more brown, less blue, less black) and it was surprising to see beads made of wood go so well with stone beads (the agate-blue beads of the DeepBlue design).
But it worked out and at times I cannot distinguish which beads are stone and which are wood without looking very closely. Very unexpected, and fun.
My bracelets have been getting enough compliments in the last year that I’ve opened a store at http://www.vinchesidesigns.com, come visit if you are interested.
DeepBlue>Original.1
This bracelet was my first design break-through: it is centered on an extraordinary agate blue stone that evokes the earth and its oceans. The DeepBlue>Original design integrates the blue agate with black onyx and silver pieces in a visually interesting 4 / 3 pattern.
Creating visual interest while adhering to a pattern — in this case two of them that occupy the same space — is this bracelet’s core appeal: a repeating pattern of four elements is interrupted by another pattern whose repetition is in threes
The effect is one of consistent variation: sometimes the blue stones are together, and sometimes they are separated by the silver pieces (the same is true for the onyx elements).
My bracelets have been getting enough compliments in the last year that I’ve opened a store at http://www.vinchesidesigns.com, come visit if you are interested.
DeepBlue>Lapis.1
I designed a new bracelet in my DeepBlue series — it is with lapis beads, which are fantastic with the agate-blue beads and Thai Silver. My bracelets have been getting enough compliments in the last year that I’ve opened a store at http://www.vinchesidesigns.com, come visit if you are interested.
Ray of Light hits Watch and Bracelet
I’ve been taking photographs for my soon-to-be launched online store for luxury men’s bracelets, and this was an awesome moment of photography. I did some editing to make it black and white except for the bracelet and the reflection in the watch, very fun.
Weekly Love Affair.3
Lately I am in love with the Rolex GMT Master II Blue and Black bezel model (known as the “Batman”) and it took years to reach this point.
The reason is that my first love is the Rolex Submariner and for a long time I did not see enough difference in these two watches, but I laugh at myself now. Here is the Submariner:
I laugh at myself because my initial reaction (“they are too similar, why would you want both?”) is probably “correct”, but with several more years gestation of a full-on watch obsession, I now appreciate the GMT for its now-clear uniqueness.
I am sure that that the Jedi mind-trick enacted by Rolex on fans of the brand has something to do with this. This mind-trick can be summarized by its two attack vectors:
(1) Unlike other brands, which release a steady stream of new models every year (whole new product lines and bold changes in core lines), Rolex changes very little from year to year.
(2) Unlike other brands, Rolex does not operate with an ethos of maximizing sales and profit, and as a result, it refuses to increase production of its sports watches (those mentioned in this blog post, and a few other models) despite multi-year waiting lists in certain cases.
If I walk into an authorized Rolex dealer this afternoon and ask to try on a Submariner or a Batman, I will be told “sorry, we don’t have any in the store and won’t for a while. Can we show you something else?”
At the same time, the list prices in such dealers stays fixed despite overwhelming, unmet demand.
This dynamic fuels a particularly absurd result: if a person does not want to wait months or years, he can buy the object from someone who already has it, but at a substantial premium to the standard “brand-new” price. Rolex itself should earn this premium, but it does not: when it supplies a watch to its dealer, the sale price is exactly as stated despite the secondary market’s urgent, premium price for the same item.
This year, Rolex announced a new bracelet for the Batman, shown here.
There are other enhancements inside the movement as well, but as you can see, it’s still the same watch for all intents and purposes.
It has become a running joke that seeing one in the flesh is becoming less and less possible, and so we have the Internet to provide stimulation in the mean time.
Weekly Love Affair.3
Bell & Ross dials have always piqued my interest, though they are usually square in shape (a hallmark of the brand).
However, B&R has lately offered some round dial beauties and this chronograph is just amazing to look at — I really want it.
Note that many chronographs are too thick off of the wrist, but this appears to be more streamlined, which puts it dangerously close to the top of my wish list.
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