It?s Geneva Watch Days, and while Worn & Wound doesn?t have boots on the ground in Switzerland for this particular trade show, rest assured that the entire staff is rifling through the many press releases foisted upon us, searching for the gems and trying to separate the wheat from the chaff, to completely mix far too many metaphors. Maybe we?ll do a GWD post-mortem on a future podcast, but I have to say, at first blush, there haven?t been a ton of releases that have really blown us away. There?s the Bulgari Octo Finissimo that makes it easy to see any stray nostril hairs and all of your chins when you check the time, and a killer new MB&F that Blake wrote about here. But a lot of the new stuff seems, I don?t know, kind of safe. One watch that I find myself particularly drawn to this week, the De Bethune DB25 Perpetual Calendar (the DB25sQP), is both absolutely bonkers from almost any perspective, yet finds itself living in the more reserved corner of a uniquely adventurous brand?s catalog. 
De Bethune is one of the most whimsical of the current crop of high end independent brands. This is most clearly evident in their DB28 collection, which features their trademark articulating lug design paired with dials that give a strong sci-fi energy with elaborate skeletonization and a completely unique triangular central bridge. These watches, more than almost any other brand (even Urwerk and MB&F) look like they?ve been placed in our world by a time traveler ...