I've just got back from an event that my AD held at a really rather swanky 5 star country club today.
They had a huge number of watch and jewelery makes there, from Fabergé to Cartier, Breitling to Bvlgari, Patek to Rolex. Plus they also had the Breitling Fighter flight simulators set up which are excellent fun if you get the chance.
I managed to pick up the new Chronolog, and a couple of other goodies, which is nice, but what amazed me the most were <shock horror> some of the other watch manufacturers. Basically I was quite shocked to find out that Omega, Ebel and Bvlgari are now making full in-house manufacturer movements!
The Omega one was quite grim looking but unique nonetheless as they have made a movement with the subdials in the arrangement of the Olympic rings across the centre of the dial.
However, the new Ebel is fantastic! It's called the 1911 Tekton Chronograph ( http://watches.infoniac.com/new-ebel-19 ... graph.html but the pictures do not do it justice AT ALL!), and it's a good 48mm across and has at least 24mm lugs - may even be 25 or 26mm. Full in-house movement, retrograde chronograph function and display back. It's a great looking thing. I was all the more surprised as Ebel watches have never appealed to me, but this really is something special, and at £5k not outrageously priced.
So there we have it - 3 more fairly mainstream manufacturers making in-house movements to join Panerai and Rolex. When will Breitling take the plunge?
) as it looked superb on the wrist. Very nicely built too.
Sounds like a good time anyways.
