The Breitling Watch Blog

Johan Gustafsson and watchmaker Patrik Sjögren continue their innovation with their GoS watches by introducing Damascus Steel movement bridges and balance cock. While i’ve talked about their Damascus Watches in the past, I’ve never seen anything like this before, and am quite sure it will be the first production watches at least with Damascus movement bridge and balance cock. As you can see, the movement bridge has been changed in shape from the original Unitas 6498 watch movement, and uses the base Soprod Enhanced Unitas 6498 for the movement. I’ve just received these Photos from GoS as they just got them in a few days ago and do not have the damascus Balance Cocks yet. When these ship, they will have them.

Very cool enhancements to an excellent movement. I am an avid knife collector and have always appreciated the sophistication of Damascus steel. I personally would not mind seeing these done with a powdered steel or exotic steel damascus like Devin Thomas. While I like old-fashioned ladder pattern Damascus, some variation is always nice.

More info on their watches here:
http://www.goswatches.com/

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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:

Urwerk continues to innovate their Rare Species Collection with the addition of the White Shark to their collection, which is produced in a limited edition of 24 pieces. The watch features the caliber UR 7.02 movement, which has their patented revolving satelite complication for telling the time. The hours are shown on the point that is within the minute scale, and points to the current minute. What looks like a Moon Phase indicator is actually a Day-Night indicator, much to my chagrin! Day-Night moonphase look-a-likes are a pet peeve of mine.

Nicolas G. Hayek (1928-2010), the Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Swatch Group Ltd., passed away today at work due to heart failure. Mr. Hayek was an icon in the world of Horology and one of the most enthusiastic characters and supporters of the mechanical watch movement. He will be missed, but his work will live on.