Review – Creux Automatiq, An Accessible Option For A Stylish Luxury Sports Watch
One of the major trends for 2016 has been the arrival of new-comers on the market – new brands, created from scratch, mainly driven by crowd-funding processes (see all these affordable “Kickstarter” campaigns, with some of them showing highly interesting projects). This trend will most definitely continue in 2017, believe us. However, most of these new projects are based on affordable, no-Swiss-Made watches – something that we, here, not necessarily dislike but a bit of good-old Helvetic quality is always welcomed. Playing on the Luxury Sports Watch concept, here is the Creux Automatiq Watch, a Swiss-Made, qualitative, yet affordable option to certain well-known luxury watches you might have in mind.
Of all the (many) lists of I’ve put together this year, this is without doubt, the hardest. So many great stories had to be left on the cutting room floor; reviews I really enjoyed writing, photos that brought a tear to my eye, some really fun creative stuff and, of course, Andy Green’s on-screen debut. But, sadly, the cuts had to be made. So here they are, my favourite stories of 2016. Just don’t ask me tomorrow as they’ll probably have changed IN-DEPTH: We fight over the new grey-dialled Slim d’Hermès BY: Felix Scholz and Ceri David PUBLISHED: August “There’s a few reasons why this is my favourite story of 2016. First of all the watch itself is incredible. Secondly Ash’s photographs are cracking. But thirdly, and most importantly, this review is the Time+Tide equivalent of Islands in the Stream, where I’m Kenny and Ceri is Dolly. It’s as simple as that.” INSIGHT: Blancpain Ocean Commitment – the stories behind the pictures BY: Dietmar Fuchs PUBLISHED: January “So, this is a little awkward. My second favourite story of the year contains absolutely zero watches, but given that we’re pretty watch-heavy the other 364 days of the year, maybe it’s OK. To make up for the…