Watch Dandy

Time+Tide has always been proudly Australian-based, and, whenever required, Aussie-centric. If you didn’t know this before earlier this year, you would have learned it then. Our country was ravaged by bushfires, and many of you reading came to our aid by supporting an auction we held to help out. But that is all a distant memory. What is more current is that we have not been all about Down Under this week, and that’s been refreshing. At the weekend we encouraged New Yorkers to get down to the Nature of Time Experience that our writer Zach Blass attended and highly recommended. And then, to close out the working week we have a list of Scandinavian watch brands — several that are lesser-known — compiled by our prolific man in the north, Thor Svaboe. To round out the United Staff Members of Time+Tide, we have an Englishman attending Geneva Watch Days next week with an Amsterdam-based Melburnian shooting the action. Which is all, in the final instance, rather lucky, given that the ‘H’ and ‘Q’ in our HQ stands these days for ‘heavily quagmired’. We hope you enjoy the key highlights from another big week of watch action. Seiko is taking it to…

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The advent of Hublot’s Big Bang essentially launched the provocative, innovative and disruptive brand. The brainchild of horological mega-doyen Jean-Claude Biver, the Big Bang arrived on the scene way back in 2004, and since then, it has not only reinvigorated but redefined what Hublot stands for. The evocatively named, plus-sized timepiece has been the wrist-worn proving ground for myriad material and technical revolutions that have broken boundaries and exceeded expectation time and time again. Not all Big Bangs are equal though, at least as far as recognition goes. The lesser-known, tonneau-shaped Spirit of Big Bang has always been somewhat left in a shadow cast by its older, more traditional, rounder sibling. That’s a real shame, because there are a fair few enthusiasts out there, myself included, who reckon it’s one of Hublot’s best offerings. Now, though, Hublot is starting to give the angular timepiece the love it deserves, by equipping it with one of their most technical, flagship manufacture movements – the Meca-10. For those of you who don’t know about this new leviathan of haute horology, keep reading, because it’s one hell of a movement. As for the watches themselves, the Hublot Spirit of Big Bang Meca-10 will be available…

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