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A new watch from Swiss luxury brand Richard Mille is as thin as a US quarter — just 1.75mm. The RM UP-01 collaboration with Ferrari is now the thinnest mechanical watch in the world.
A mechanical watch is a watch that uses a clockwork mechanism to measure the passage of time, as opposed to quartz watches which function using the vibration modes of a piezoelectric quartz tuning fork, or radio watches, which are quartz watches synchronized to an atomic clock via radio waves.
Top athletes assisted in the design of sports watches for specific sports, which led to the introduction of the Ironman Triathlon in 1986 which was named for the Hawaiian triathlon that the company had sponsored since 1984, and it became the most successful Timex watch in the post-mechanical watch era. Within its first year, Timex Ironman ...
Only one unit was produced with the watch auctioned off at Phillips Auction House during The New York Watch Auction: NINE held in New York on 10 December 2023 with the winning bid amounting to US$400,050 (US$315,000 plus buyer's premium) making it the most expensive Casio and G-Shock watch ever produced.
The Daytona was originally a mechanical chronograph—powered by the Valjoux cal. 72 or a variant thereof, it needed to be wound each day. This era lasted from 1963 until 1987—in 1988, Rolex ...
In most languages, glycine refers to an amino acid; the watch company is named for the Wisteria genus of plant, known as fleur de Glycine in French. Katharina Brechbühler, owner of Glycine in the 2000s, claims the company's name is a result of its founding during the Jugendstil period, when plant-inspired motifs and floral designs were in fashion.