The Breitling Watch Blog

For once, an watch company that embraces their Asian movements! Usually we find watch companies try and hide the pedigree of their movements when the origin is not Swiss, but Sean Wai of moVas Watches is here to change that. He spent over two years tweaking the design for his first watch, and each watch will only be produced in a limited number of 100 peices.

The first series of watches based on the first case design are simply called the GMT, Regulateur and Chronograph. This first watches have been released and are priced between $430-$670US, but many eagerly await the release of the divers that will be out soon. The price point feels a bit high to me, but for a in-house designed original watch with a quality finish on the case the price is reasonable enough. From the few reviews I’ve seen, the watches seem to be well made.

From the renderings, the new divers look like they will have sandwich dials and a horizontal power reserve… a little bit of Panerai influence in those designs it appears! But many of the watches and straps appear to have Panerai influences here.

Another Dive Watch Company has launched a few months ago by the name of Red Sea Watches. Their watches are attractive dive watches machined from 316L Stainless Steel and feature Miyota Automatic Movements. The style of their watches reminds me of Marathon a bit, and the price range is similar as well albeit with a Japanese instead of Swiss movement.

Both watches they are currently accepting pre-orders for are $565 in stainless steel and $595 in PVD steel. 44mm Cases are also standard for both the Holystone and Six Poinder models. On the upside, each watch includes Bracelet, Rubber and Nato straps.

Nice looking pieces, but maybe a bit pricey IMO. Only the market will tell, however!

In January, Gerald Genta and Daniel Roth, two luxury watch brands under the Bulgari Umbrella were consolidated into the main Bulgari brand and now all watches will feature the Bulgari namesake and branding. The newest watches from this integration were unvieled at Baselworld.

The “merger” was meant to help strengthen the Bulgari brand, allowing it to benefit from the horological expertise of the Genta/Roth brands. The dials of the new watches will still bare their original Roth or Genta logos in addition to the Bulgari branding.

See some of the new pieces:

Recently, I find myself more and more drawn to the allure of vintage pieces, but with the reliability of modern movements. That began with my purchase of the Glashutte Original Sixties, and several other watches since including a couple Eternas. Recently I saw the Cuervo Y Sobrinos Historiador, and fell in love again. Too bad it is a brand that is hard to get good discounts on around here, due to its low circulation.

This one is priced fairly affordably at $2900 in stainless steel and $9995 in Rose Gold. That should put its street price well within grasp, possibly even in Rose Gold! This one is a healthy 40mm, which with the fancy long lugs should wear much larger. Unfortunately the movement is a rather stock ETA 2895, with CYS engraved rotor.

Nevertheless, I still very much like the Cuervo Y Sobrinos Historiador!

Drass, a company that has been manufacturing and designing dive equipment for years, has come out with a line of watches, made in Italy. They have three lines, the Tungum, Sat Dive Tungum and the Sat Dive line. All watches use the Selitta SW 200 movement, and come in either Stainless Steel or Tungum Pipe, which is a special type of metal used for saturation control panels and diving bells. Almost looks like Anonimo meets Breitling Numerals. The round Tungum line resembles the Manometro watch too… I’m disappointed with the lack of originality here.

Download the Drass Watch brochure here