Five Minute Fix: Your weekly round-up from the world of watches
Welcome to Five Minute Fix, your new weekly round-up of what?s going on in the world of watches.
This week: Chanel buys a bit of F.P. Journe, Oris does the recycling, horological art at the Tate Modern and the demise of Phillips’ Steve McQueen Submariner…
By Chris Hall
What we?re wearing: Tissot Heritage Visodate
How the Heritage Visodate looks in press pictures…
This snappy number from Tissot is now available with a blue dial and Swatch Group?s Powermatic 80 movement (previously it was a 38-hour ETA 2836-2). I?ve been wearing it for a few days and everything that I liked about it when new in 2010 is still there ? 40mm diameter is spot on, especially when the case tapers inwards like it does, and the 1950s look is well preserved. On a Milanese mesh bracelet it demands to be worn with a shirt and jacket (I tried dressing it down over the weekend ? not easy), but if you work in the kind of office where a suit is expected, I can?t think of a better Monday-Friday watch for the money. Or I couldn?t, if it wasn?t for the watch?s fatal flaw: the total lack of anti-reflective coating. As my colleague James put it, ?it?s not a watch, it?s a mirror you wear on your wrist?. Everything about the watch is too shiny, and while the case would dull down with time, the dial and sapphire would be a deal-breaker. Fix this and I?d buy one tomorrow. …and it’s true nature, reflections and all.
Business news: Chanel acquires minority stake in F.P. Journe...
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