A New Era

Coming Soon: Edge Time Pieces (bear with us on this one)

Oris' "Black Ops" watch

No, its not specially-made for contract killers, though no doubt a few of them may fancy it. From our friends at a Blog to Read, the new ORIS celebrates one of France's helicopter regiments

Based on the good ol' Oris BC4 watch, comes this special limited edition version that was made for, and tested by the French 4th Special Forces Helicopter Regiment (4ème Régiment d’Hélicoptères des Forces Spéciales). These are one of the main helicopter regiment guys in France. Would it be a good idea for anyone to make more watches to celebrate US regiments and divisions? While I am sure these guys in France are as hardcore as they come... on the world scene the French military doesn't exactly have a bad-ass "we are gonna win and beat the crap out of you" reputation. That pretty much ended with Napoleon. And these days most people just remember him as a funny little man as opposed to a brilliant military leader-  but I digress.

According to Oris, the 4e RHFS watch (that totally could have been named better) was actually tested by the 4th regiment - which is pretty neat. Like I said, the watch is based on the Oris BC4 collection, but has some fun differences. First is the 42.7mm wide steel case (water resistant to 100 meters) with PVD gunmetal gray coating. It has an aviation style black leather strap with white stitching and a very easy to read dial.

London Time

Now in it's second year the SalonQP http://www.salonqp.com/Home.aspx returns as England's new premiere high-end watch event. The Salon is curated and put on by QP magazine, and will be held this year from November 11-13th a One Marylebone in London. I might just be at this year's event myself. I hear good things about the show, and know that a number of good brands will be there. Plus, because the event is in England, it will also showcase local UK watch brands.

Some of the many hot brands that will be there: A. Lange & Sohne, Backes & Strauss, Bell & Ross, Bremont, Cabestan, Cartier, Ellicott, Grand Seiko, Linde Werdelin, Montblanc, Perrelet, Ralph Lauren, Roger Smith, Zenith, and a lot more. Note that in the list are several England based brands

My New favourite

haven't posted in a while, but clicking on the Hour Time podcast from "watch king" Ariel Adams led me to this




http://uhr-kraft.com/images/uhrkraft-news/uhr-kraft-news_2006en.pdf

Northwest Time: Independent watchmaking in the US

Link below to a very interesting watchmaker, based in the US Pacific Northwest state of Oregon
http://www.kpmwatchcompany.com/_/The_American_Edge.html

Thanks to Ariel Adams and his watch info source ABlogtoRead.com

A Blog To Read Indeed

Ariel Adams may be the best reviewer of watches around. On his "A Blog To Read" site, you can spend almost half a lifetime discovering new watch brands and getting his unbiased perspective on watches and watchmaking. Here's a sample:

http://ablogtoread.com/pierre-deroche/pierre-deroche-splitrock-watch-review/

Speed gives way to Precision

Couldn't resist one more Bolt @ Hublot shot. Before this, I doubt there's 1 in every 5000 Jamaicans who have heard of the Hublot brand. That's the distance which excellence will take you.