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Ebel Classic Hexagon Retrograde Power Reserve Watch

Yet another variation on the "modern" Ebel Classic Hexagon, is this Retrograde Power Reserve watch that you see before you. How does it fit into the Ebel watch line? They already have calender watches, they already have retrograde watches, they already have rose gold watches. So consider it a not-so-identical twin. The dial layout seems a bit haphazard to me. Not the elegant loveliness that you seen in some of the other Classic Hexagon watches. Too much of the dial looks bare, while the bottom looks heavy. A good example of bad symmetry. Not like I would refuse the watch if Ebel handed one to me, but not my choice pick by any means.

The 45.4mm wide case is in 18k rose gold, crystal is sapphire, and the watch is only water resistant to 50 meters. I do like the contrasting polished and brushed surfaces on the case, and the way the strap forms to the case is smooth and well done. Movement is an automatic Soprod caliber 9094 movement (base ETA). You can see the functions include the time, day, date on a retrograde scale, and a power reserve indicator.

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

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Ebel 1911 BTR Chronograph

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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You've probably seen the Ebel ads with Gisele Bundchen lounging around looking pensive. Like Raymond Weil, Ebel is another company also seeking to capture the male market. Their offering to masculinity is the 1911 BTR collection, a return to their popular 1911 model. According to an article in Europastar, the feminizing of Ebel reached its peak when Ebe lwas bought by LVMH, which seeked to have it be the feminine complement ot Tag Heuer. Now as part of the Movado group, Ebel is seeking to recapture the manly. BTR stands for "back to roots" and the chrono shown here features the first 100-percent Ebel automatic chronograph. The watch has a larger size (a 44.5mm case) bevelled hands, faceted time markers, and the cool detail of having the pushbuttons and crown enhanced with rubber. The 1911 BTR Chronograph shown here sells for under $5,000 but the complete range has also has pricer models in pink gold.

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German Newspaper Readers Pick Watch of the Year

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The Watch of the Year for 2006 chosen by readers of the national German-language newspaper “Welt am Sonntag” (The World on Sunday) and the magazine “Armband Uhren”(Wristwatches) were announced at BaselWorld, in Basel, Switzerland. The winner, shown here, is beautiful but perhaps a bit of German bias? My pick would be Vacheron's Tour d'I'lle which comes in at a humble number seven.

For men:
1. Lange & Söhne’s “Lange 1 Time Zone”
2. Chronoswiss’s “Digiteur"
3. Glasshütte Original’s “Panomatic Tourbillion”
4. Rolex’s “Prince”
5. Breitling for Bentley’s “Mulliner Tourbillon”
6. Omega’s “Seamaster Planet Ocean Co-axial”
7. Vacheron Constatin’s “Tour de I’Ile”
8. IWC’s “Ingenieur Automatic”
9. Longines’ “Master Collection, Chronograph”
10. Breguet’s “La Tradition”

For women:
1. Jaeger-LeCoultre’s “Reverso Duoface”
2. Glasshütte Original’s “SunRay"
3. Cartier’s “Santos 100”
4. Longines’ “Evidenza”
5. Baume & Mercier’s “Hampton Milleis”
6. Rolex’s “Lady Datejust”
7. Patek Philippe’s “Twenty-4”
8. Rainer Brand’s “Pezzo"
9. Ebel’s “1911 Lady”
10. Chanel’s “J12"

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