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Best Of Basel: The Standout Timepieces From This Year's Watch Fair

Our pick of the standout timepieces from Basel ranges from Jaquet Droz's Twelve Cities Aventurine, tracking a dozen capitals at once on a mother-of-pearl dial, to a sporty new extension of the Hermes Clipper line.

3 Jun 2013 By Official Bespoke 2 min read
Best Of Basel: The Standout Timepieces From This Year's Watch Fair

Jaquet Droz

Perfect for the businessperson on the go, Jaquet Droz’ Twelve Cities Aventurine keeps time in twelve different capital cities simultaneously. Sporting a smart blue alligator strap and deliciously minimal mother-of-pearl and aventurine dial, you can customise it according to your choice. Local time appears in cutaway at 12 o’clock, the city in question down at 6.

Hermes

An extension of the Clipper line, this new Sport model is a playful mix of steel and titanium, a metal prized for lightness and performance in the world of competitive sailing. Featuring an emblematic bezel inspired by the portholes of 19th century ships, it has a self-winding movement, superluminova-coated hour dots for night time readability and comes with bright orange, red or blue straps.

Blancpain

The new Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe is inspired by Blancpain’s archetypal diver’s watches of the 1950s. Vintage only in looks, technical innovations including a mechanical self-winding movement that beats at 28,800 vibrations an hour, a nonmagnetic, corrosion-resistant silicon balance-spring and waterproof until about 300 metres are included. You can activate the unidirectional bezel is activated by turning it counter-clockwise in one-minute increments.

Breitling

Breitling has created the first wristwatch with a built-in personal locator beacon. The Emergency II is high-tech wonder with a revolutionary rechargeable battery, miniature dual frequency transmitter and an integrated antenna system, designed for survival in all emergency situations. Its signal can be received on land, sea and in the air. That all this fits on your wrist is nothing short of amazing.

Rolex

The new Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph Daytona by Rolex comes clad entirely in 950 platinum with an ice blue ceramic bezel that has a tachymetric scale capable of measuring speeds of up to 400 kilometres per hour. The crystal is scratchproof sapphire and its parachrom hairspring is not sensitive to magnetic fields, making it 10 times more precise in case of temperature shock.

Omega

The new Constellation Sedna is the first crafted in Omega’s patented alloy of Sedna gold, which was developed by the Swatch group team. A blend of copper, palladium and 18 K rose gold - at least 75 per cent to ensure a long-lasting lustre – it is named after the reddest orbiting object in our solar system. It will be produced in a limited edition of 1,952 pieces only.

Glashutte

The Senator Panorama Date has been revamped. The bezel has been cut back to make room for a lacquered silver-grain dial, which provides a sleek backdrop for the pitch black Roman numerals and railroad chapter ring. The black on ivory display matches the new dial colours. Available in red gold or stainless steel, it has a 55-hour battery reserve.

Breguet

Designed extra-thin with an off-centre tourbillon, the 5377 Classique Tourbillon is a 42 mm. The new fitted calibre 581 DR beats at a frequency of 4 Hz without drawing from the power reserve, which currently provides 90 hours of running time. A bi-directional platinum winding rotor has been placed on the edge of this new movement as well.

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