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Carl F. Bucherer Patravi EvoTec Calendar Watch

The next watch to have Carl F. Bucherer's great A1000 base movement will be this Patravi EvoTec Calendar watch. The brand put a type of annual calendar on top of the A1000 for the CFB A1004 automatic movement that now has the time, big date (love that), day of the week, subsidiary seconds disc, and a week indicator. Week indicators are rare, and track the 52 week period in each year. This is done on the large inner dial ring. They aren't super useful, but interesting to see how you are progression into the year. Rather than a subdial for the seconds, there is a disc that rotates and you use the small red arrow to read it.

The case is in steel and 42.6mm wide. I like the round case for the Patravi more than their Cushion case - but that is just a matter of taste. The cases are finished quite well, and the operation of CFB movement is usually really nice. While the watch is cool, I think they could have done a better job at designing the dial. It could have been more legible, and less busy. Overall the new Patravi EvoTec Calendar watch is nice, satisfying the complication junkie that Carl F. Bucherer is known to go after.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch reviews site aBlogtoRead.com.

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Carl F. Bucherer Alacria Royal Limited Edition: Expensive Quartz Watches

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Timepieces / Watches

These are not likely to be the most expensive quartz movement based watches out there, but they are up there. Priced between about $112,000 to $215,000 these jewelry watches for women don't even have fine mechanical movements. To a degree this makes sense given their small stature and life in a jewelry box or safe unless taken out for special occasions, but for me this is in contradiction to what haute horology is about today.

Swiss watch maker Carl F. Bucherer did a nice job designing this colorful Alacria Royal limited edition collection of lady's watches. They are colorful like candy, made of 18k gold covered with diamonds and either traditional blue sapphires, orange sapphires, emeralds, or rubies. The colored gems are placed in two parallel slight arches on the dial as well as on the bracelet. The shape on the dial looks somewhat like an hourglass - which makes sense on a watch. As for jewelry watches these are nice, though it makes sense that each of the four watches will be limited to just 25, because as the "Royal" name states, the price of these watches will likely keep them in the hands of ultra privileged only.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

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