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Recently, revived boutique brand Badollet introduced us to their latest creation at this year’s Baselworld fair, right alongside the creative minds that brought it to life. The watch, dubbed Ivresse, is unique not for its complications, but for its shape and execution. The slight curvature of the rectangular case and abundance of negative space on the dial leave room only for subtle details to be enjoyed thanks to the handiwork of Eric Giroud, the it guy of haute horology design. The Ivresse is more than mere visual curiosity though, a cleverly designed movement adds real substance under the surface.

Click through for lives pics of this incredibly understated piece of horological design. 

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Today we have a brand new Jaeger-LeCoultre diving watch.  It’s called the Deep Sea Chronograph, and it is the modern extension of the Deep Sea line, of which, up until today, we’ve only seen vintage variations - the Deep Sea Alarm tribute of 2011 and the Deep Sea Vintage Chronograph.

It is with this new, three register, 42mm automatic chronograph that we see the Deep Sea line will not be for tributes only, but will encompass the entire JLC sport watch family.  Yes, this watch resembles the Deep Sea Vintage chronograph, but ultimately, this watch is very modern (we show you the two side by side, below).  It features sapphire glass, a rotating bezel, no faux-aged lume, and water resistance to 10 bar.  It’s larger than the vintage guys by about 1.5mm, and complies with all the criteria imposed on diver’s watches by the ISO 6425 standard. 

Inside this new chrono is the JLC caliber 758 featuring with a 65-hour power reserve.  But, perhaps the most noticeable trait of this new JLC Deep Sea Chronograph is the activation aperture  that sites below 12 o’clock.  This display allows the wearer to know, without a doubt, if the chronograph is running, stopped, or ready to be used.  This is how it works:

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The SpidoSpeed from Linde Werdelin is a contemporary challenger to the likes of AP’s Offshore and Hublot’s Big Bang, and a watch we reviewed in detail here.  At Basel World, we got a chance to see the brand new SpidoSpeed in 18k rose gold, which officially launches this week.  What makes the gold SpidoSpeed so interesting is just how difficult it is to drill out a solid block of gold and make it into a case that is structurally sound.  The case of the SpidoSpeed is perhaps its defining trait, and to do it in rose gold (1/8th of a kilo, to be exact) produces a pretty cool looking result. 

More details on the gold SpidoSpeed can be found here, and this watch is currently available in a limited run of 100 watches for €34,200.00.  Click through for live photo and video.

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Hermes is practically unrivaled as an independent luxury house, and it has long been said that Patek Philippe is the Hermes of the watch world. Well now, Hermes is looking to become the Hermes of the watch world, with its first line of truly in-house mechanical calibers shown at Basel World 2012. 

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Every horological machine from MB&F is a study in thinking outside the box (the legacy machines aint too shabby either).  The HM3 Frog, which Max himself showed you here, is perhaps the most playful of all HM’s, and certainly one of the funkiest too.  Today, we are showing you a brand new iteration of the HM3 Frog called the HM3 Moonmachine, and this is the very first time MB&F has chosen to do a performance art piece with a watchmaker, instead of an artist like they’ve done with say, Sage Vaugn and Huang Hankang, or with a designer like Boucheron or Alain Silberstein.

The watchmaker MB&F chose to work with for the Moonmachine is none other than HODINKEE favorite Stepan Sarpaneva, and the resulting creation is without a doubt, our favorite HM3 yet.

Click through to read more about this incredible galactic collaboration between Stepan Sarpaneva and MB&F, as well as see lots of live photos, the official video, full specs, and pricing information.

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Last fall, we were the first to introduce you to the decidedly automotive-inspired watches of Autodromo. The young brand’s Vallelunga, Brescia and Veloce models are exercises in well-thought through design and great builds, especially for the refreshingly affordable prices which are well south of a grand. The watches have been a hit with everyone from motorheads to diehard watch geeks who usually sniff at anything with a battery (yes, they’re all quartz, get over it).

While we loved the time-only pieces, a line of automotive watches cries out for a chronograph and Autodromo has been dropping hints for a while now. Today we bring you the first look at Autodromo’s new Vallelunga Chronograph.

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Last year, Jaeger-LeCoultre celebrated the roots of the Reverso with a limited edition model of the Tribute To 1931 called the “US Limited Edition”.  This watch closely resembled the standard production TT 1931 Reverso but took on a slightly more historic tone, with a warmer shade to the hands and hour markers, and slightly different script on the dial.  But, what made the limited edition of 100 US Edition Reverso stand out (see our detailed ruminations on it here here) and made it one of the hottest selling watches of 2011 for JLC was the strap on which it came. 

You see, the strap that came on the US Edition of the TT 1931 Reverso was hand-made by Casa Fagliano – and Casa Fagliano is the leading producer of championship grade polo boots in the world.  But when we say “leading” we certainly don’t mean they make the most – in fact, they make but 90 pairs of boots per year – by “leading” we mean that they are regarded the world over as the finest riding boots money can buy.  They are made by hand in the suburbs of Buenos Aires just as they were four generations ago, and with the US Edition Reverso, the 100 lucky owners would be granted access to the exclusive club of Casa Fagliano.

With the 2011 edition, all 100 watches came with a black, hand-stitched shell cordovan Fagliano strap.  And this year, Jaeger-LeCoultre invited us down to Buenos Aires to get an early look at the second iteration of the Fagliano strap for the Reverso. 

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As much as we love mechanical watches here at HODINKEE, there are quite a few of us, me especially, that love gadgets. The newest gadget I’ve been admiring (and now supporting) is the Pebble E-Paper Watch.

This nifty little guy works with your iOS or Android device and does a slew of things.  Apart from being a watch with customizable faces, you can use it for email and text notifications, workouts (with the GPS features of an iOS or Android device), controlling your tunes, or even as a rangefinder for golfing. 

I’m most excited about the fact it has an e-ink display, which means the battery will last a long, long time.

If you’re ready to pick this up, head on over to Kickstarter and support it. Apparently quite a few people are on board as they reached their 100k goal in about 2 hours (it’s currently over 900k now!)   Delivery is set for Sep 2012 and prices starts at $ 115.  Not bad….not bad at all!  Video below:

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When you think of Zenith, odds are, you think “El Primero.”  One of the first automatic chronographs to come to market (and certainly the first high-beat, integrated chronograph to come to market) the El Primero is something of a cult movement and certainly the backbone of Zenith, who has enjoyed strong success in the past few years based on the launch of some very complicated pieces like the Striking Tenth Chronograph and Captain Winsor at very reasonable prices. 

While every movement Zenith makes is indeed their own – they are a true manufacture from top to bottom – not every movement they make is an El Primero.  Their Captain line, for example, uses a Zenith “Elite” movement with a VPH (vibrations per hour) of 28,800.  One of the defining traits of the El Primero is that it has a VPH of 36,000.

So, while Zenith did put much of its attention pilots watches and continued with chronographs this year at Basel World 2012, one of the most interesting relases came in the form of a brand new time-only watch called the Espada featuring a time-date movement that they are calling an El Primero, despite the fact it is not a chronograph movement.

The El Primero 4650 B was in fact built to spec of the traditional El Primero chronograph, and beats at 36,000 BPH as one might expect – it just happens to be missing the chronograph function.  What the new Espada offers is the chance to own part of the El Primero history in a three-handed watch.

Sized at 40mm and available in steel, rose gold, and two-tone steel/rose gold in a few different dials, the new Espada will sit above the Elite collection and below the El Primero Chronograph collection in terms of pricing and prestige.  Pricing is expected to start at just above $ 6000 in steel and $ 15,000 in gold.  Does Zenith need two three-handed movements?  We will find out soon enough, though we do expect Zenith fans to be clamoring for this one.

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We saw a lot of interesting stuff from Bell & Ross this year at BaselWorld, including the WWI Monopusher chronograph you see above.  Bell & Ross has always made unquestionably handsome watches, in particular their vintage and heritage lines, but this year we saw Mr. Rosillo’s brand get slightly more “watch-y”.  They came out with a few higher end pieces that we’ll cover later that really impressed us, including a jump-hour with a module created by Vincent Calabrese.

But, we’ll get to that in due time.  Today we are showing you a new introduction that sits somewhere between the handsome ETA-powered standard collection and the expensive, complicated pieces.  The WWI Monopusher uses the pocketwatch-inspired, wired-lug design you’ve seen before in the WWI collection but this time around, Bell & Ross has put a La Joux Perrret mono-pusher chrono movement inside.  Now, you maye be thinking “hey, didn’t somebody else just use a La Joux Perret monopusher in a watch featured on the ‘Dink?” and you’d be right.  Vulcain used the very same movement in their 50s President Chronograph Heritage.

What’s even more interesting is that Vulcain and Bell & Ross had the same idea for pricing for such a watch, too.  The Vulcain will be sold at $ 7550 while this Bell & Ross will be sold at $ 7600 in steel when it hits stores later this year.  Not a bad price for a pretty cool watch with an interesting movement.  Click through for more live pictures.

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