The Breitling Watch Blog

Many of you Dive watch guys are well familiar with the German watch company Kazimon. Their watches feature precision, custom german made watch cases and dials fitted with Swiss movements. Their watches are not cheap, and like most German Dive watch companys, their watches don’t really maintain their value on the secondary market from what you paid. However, they do make a pretty darn cool looking dive watch,

Water Resistance: 1500m
Diameter: 42mm
Lug Width: 22mm
Crystal: 4mm Sapphire
Movement: ETA 2824-2
Features: elastically supported movement, stainless steel movement holder, double sealing on case, blue superlume on dial and hands.
Price: 990 Euros

Breitling released a new limited edition Cosmonaute, using the rigid Air Racer bracelet. This limited edition will be 1000 peices, and feature the Navitimer Cosmonaute 24-hour dial, in an automatic version. This watch uses the same Caliber 22 movement in current Cosmonautes, and really has very little difference besides the dial and bracelet. Same 41.5mm diameter case, and 30m water resistance.

This new dial is pretty nice, however. Note the addition of the “Swiss Made” Designation on the watch dial. Breitling is starting to re-incorporate this element.

Sinn launches a new model, and this one departs a bit from the Sinn mold as once in a while their models do. While not quite as different as the 6100, this one still shares a much less “Tool Watch” style than most Sinns. The Sinn 917 has a Destro, or left-hand, crown and pushers, along with a crown at the 4 o’clock position on the right hand side for rotatiing the inner bezel. The case is Argon-filled, and measures 44mm x 15.5mm. Water resistances is good to 100m.

The movement inside the Sinn 917 is the ubiquitous Valjoux 7750, with an additional Power Reserve complication in addition to the standard Chronograph and Date. Watch is fabricated in Germany as all Sinns are.

IWC has released their newly re-designed Aquatimer in a solid Rose Gold version, and it looks stunning. While not a fan of the new Steel Aquatimer, I really like this rose gold offering, with their in house IWC Caliber 89360 movement. This is the superb movement used in the Da Vinci Chronograph which features IWC’s signature Pelaton Winding system, and Chronograph hour and minute counters both on the subdial at 12 o’clock. Chronograph second counter is central, and second dial for the time is located at 6 o’clock.

Beautiful display back shows off the nicely finished movement and pelaton winding system. The watch measures a healthy 44mm in diameter and 15.5mm thickness.

A. Lange & Sohn have a new watch, and it is a jaw-droppingly beautiful watch. A. Lange is consistently responding to buyers requests with larger watches and this one follows trends with a massive 46mm case, at a very thick 16mm. The caseback is incredible, with a beautiful engraved silver plates and bridges, hand-engraved balance cock, and an incredible 31 day power reserve!

The manufacture Lange L034.1 movement uses two mainspring barrels to keep the watch running, 62 Jewels and 406 parts. I have to say that this is possibly one of the most beautiful case backs I have ever seen. The watch has a power reserve indicator, big date and small seconds complications.