U-Boat Men’s Wristwatches

U-Boat – Bold, Aggressive, and Oversized

In the year 1942, the Fontana workshop was poised to produce a professional timepiece for the distinguished officers of the Italian Navy’s submarines (also known as U-boats). Though the project was ultimately scuttled, the distinctive drawings, color samples, and original materials were lovingly preserved for more than sixty years. In 2000, tab Fontana, a cousin of the workshops late founder realized a longtime company dream with the launch of the modern U-Boat brand. U-Boat watches, just like their original namesake, are bold, aggressive, and oversized. These timepieces embody force and style, revealing the unique personality of the man behind the revival, tab Fontana. it took me seven years to develop and refine the U-Boat watches, Inspired by eighteenth-century craftsmanship and intricate made-by-hand detailing, we can now produce a timepiece of rare artisanal quality that reaches toward a new dimension in watchmaking.

The U-Boat Brand

Character and strength are a hallmark of the U-Boat brand. All of the lines timepieces are designed with the crown on the left side of the case—a unique and unexpected element making these watches extremely comfortable to wear despite their extreme size. Each of the U-Boat timepieces is powered by Swiss ETA movements, automatic and manually wound alike, All of them are housed in full-bodied, oversized stainless steel cases ranging in size from 45 toSS millimeters in diameter Red, yellow, and orange PVD-treated crystals and precious metals meld beautifully with rubber and steel details, challenging traditional design standards in horology. From the Thousands of Feet collection, with its particular dodecahedral-shaped case, to the latest Nightvision collection that allows the wearer to change out the colored crystal, each watch expresses its own singular personality.

In 2005, Fontana joined forces with Mounir Moufarrige, an acclaimed tastemaker known for his singular work with Montblanc and Chloë. Together, these two are bringing U-Boat into the limelight of today’s watch industry, evoking a new feeling for Tuscan watchmaking along with other reputable makers from this picturesque region. All of U-Boat’s timepieces are designed and assembled in Italy Found only at the most discriminating of international retailers, U-Boat watches are earning worldwide appreciation from connoisseurs of rare timepieces and can now be found at more than 200 select stores around the globe, including the United States. The U-Boat pieces retail between $1,500 and $6,500, with prices naturally rising along with the number of sparkling gems.

Genuine U Boat Classico 45 Automatic Watch Best Price $7,450.00

Genuine U Boat Classico 45 Golden Crown Watch 1216 $7,450.00

ON SALE! U Boat Classico 45 Automatic Watch BUY NOW! $7,450.00

U Boat Flightdeck 50 Chrono Automatic Watch ON SALE! $4,070.00

U-Boat Flightdeck 50 Orange Markers Automatic Watch NIB $4,040.00

U Boat Flightdeck 50 Orange Markers Automatic Watch NIB $4,040.00

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HD3 Automatic Wristwatches – A Creative Trinity

HD3 Timepieces – Creative Harmony

Three designers with a shared passion for design, a love of liberty, and the inherent need to excel have forged a creative harmony with astounding results. Jörg Hysek, Valerie Ursenbacheç and Fabrice Gonet form the core of HD3—a collective inspired by the same passion, resulting from fifteen years of working together The first project to emerge from HD3 comprises one specific timepiece from each of the designers, outfitted with complicated, exclusive La Joux-Perret and BNB movements and limited to a maximum of thirty-three pieces each.

Hysek is no doubt the most well-known of the HD3 trio. His work previous to this interesting project is well-documented in both the pen and watch industries, He is a designer whose style is both refined and technically sophisticated. After working at Rolex for four years, Hysek founded his own design agency called Hysek Styling. He and his team created the looks for Breguet’s Marine, the Kirium by TAG I-leuer, Ebel’s Shanta, the AD 2000 for Dunhill, and—of course—the Jorg Hysek Kilada product range for Järg Hysek’s own brand, which came under new ownership a couple of years ago.

Prolifically creative, Hysek uninhibitedly builds on the strong identity and immediate recognition of the products he creates, His prestigious works of art are stamped with his own brand of exclusivity and individuality; his timekeepers are designed for those sensitive to these aesthetic qualities—as evidenced by his newest timepiece Idalgo XT-1, the first timepiece by HD3 to be outfitted with a movement designed especially for it.

Passionate Wristwatch HD3 Design

Ursenbacher, passionate about design, was attracted to the watch world from the start. She applied for a position as a designer with Hysek Styling, where it soon became clear that she was exceptionally talented: at just twenty-four years of age, she was promoted to head of the agency’s creative department, becoming an associate in 2000. Watchmaking fascinates Ursenbacher because it is an art form full of constraints, where the creator is obliged to constantly search for new forms and ideas. Her Capture timepiece illustrates her way of navigating these issues perfectly.

At the age of only seventeen, Gonet was already a design fanatic, and thus decided to search out Hysek, who became his mentor during his training years with Hysek Styling. Gonet’s specific style is aggressive and athletic, inspired by mechanical engineering, particularly the technical and innovative elements of it. This is very obvious in his rectangular Raptor model, the latest incarnation of which is a chronograph.

Three minds, a symbiosis, resulting in exclusive horological creations that are in continual evolution: this is the heart of HD3. Thus, after each having designed their own models, the three joined forces to create the Three Minds timepiece. The innovative display of this automatic watch is dominated by three rotating disks (hours, minutes, seconds), while the case back embodies a new way of looking at the movement of an automatic rotor The overall design reflects the attention to technical and aesthetic perfection that has developed into the essence of HD3’s creativity: becoming one.

HD3 Idalgo XT1 White Gold/Black PVD Limited 33 NEW! $5,000.00

HD3 Idalgo XT2 Limited Edition 33 Only Rose Gold New! $95.00

HD3 Idalgo XT2 Unique Piece Only 1 watch in the World ! $95.00

HD3 Idalgo XT2 Unique Piece Only 1 watch in the World! $95.00

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MB&F Maximilian Busser & Friends

MB&F Maximilian Busser & Friends – Hi-Tech Rigidity

At the early age of 31, right after starting his horological voyage at Jaeger-Lecoulture, Maximilian Busser took over as the managing director of Harry Winston Rare Wrist Watches. He was in all certainty more than merely the company’s head: Busser alone raised Harry Winston from simply a wrist watch manufacturer to a authentic powerhouse in men’s high premium watchmaking. This he largely attained by naming the exclusive Opus brand to life in 2000, which in turn saw Harry Winston working together with one well-known and revolutionary independent watch manufacturing company a year to make an exceptionally restricted wristwatch the likes of which usually had by no means been observed previously.

Busser had an effective nose for dealing with the best independents, and this specific talent has now helped him in founding his very own company, MB&F, thanks to every one of the ‘friends’ he’s created in this modest area of the timepiece industry over time. Busser may not be a watchmaker or a designer nevertheless he is aware what exactly is currently shifting the haute horiogerie sector, and this is just what he is producing with the assistance of a team of talented independents as well as a good transparency policy guiding him, ‘We are developing what has certainly not been done,’ Busser points out in his calmly self-assured manner “This is a fantastic product which brings together the shared beliefs of outstanding kinetic horology along with progressive thinking”

Horological Wrist Watch Numbers

Horological Machine Number 1 was initially the name of the 1st wrist watch to emerge, a series of thirty exclusive edition timepieces which in fact had collectors around the world chomping at the bit. Peter Speake-Marin has been one among the famous names whom helped create the unusually designed tourbillon featuring 4 spring barrels for 7 days of power reserve. During the same time, Busser announced plans to launch one masterpiece every year.

In keeping with his promise, Busser beamed like a very pleased father after unveiling the brand new watch developed to house the unique movement he had been recently giving sneak peaks of for a few months, Horological Watch Number 2 could not be more original, and this is no great surprise, for the horological wizard he selected as his best friend this time around was none other than Jean-Marc Wiederrecht, the most innovative and qualified behind-the-scenes watchmakers producing today.

Using more than 450 parts making up its case and movement, HM2 is definitely innovative device even though it was engineered for simple, trouble-free functionality, a signature Wiederrecht element. The movement includes Wiederrecht’s energy-efficient jump hour/retrograde display—the latter one of his world-renowned specialties—and his unique, patented asymmetric tooth gear wheels ensuring high precision. HM2’s intricate case shape exhibits vivid architectural volume and was only made possible by a progressive modular method. High-tech alloys and precious metals produce a tension between classic watchmaking and 21st-century micro-engineering—amplified through the interplay of light and colour resulting from the varied surface finishes, textures, and styles, lending this ‘machine’ a distinct, pulsing vigor in appearance to match that of its makers.

MB&F MAXIMILIAN BUSSER Machine No.2 18k Rose & Titanium $42,000.00

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Jewelry Brand de Grisogono Debuts Line of Luxury Wristwatches

Technically Extraordinary de Grisogono Timepieces

Jewelry manufacturers turning an eye to watchmaking are not often taken seriously by horological fans. When jewelry brand de Grisogono debuted in the watch industry barely eight years ago, the company was confronted with all sorts of prejudice. The critics fell silent, however, when it became clear that owner Fawaz Gruosi wasn’t just going to make jeweled watches with quartz movements, but was looking to expand his portfolio with solid mechanical watches.

In the same way that he only produces jewelry of the highest quality using top-of-the-line gemstones, it is a basic requirement for Gruosi’s watches not only to be technically extraordinary but to have a design and quality able to stand up to even the strictest tests the field’s technical professionals can dish out.

It should come as no great surprise that the greater share of de Grisogono’s 2007 turnover of 135 million Swiss francs—a number that is increasing by an average of 28 percent a year—is generated mostly by unique pieces of premium jewelry. The sale of wristwatches accounts for about 47 percent of overall turnover, 70 percent of which still comprises elegant, jeweled ladies’ watches. The percentage of timepieces is steadily increasing, with the emphasis shifting more and more toward first-class mechanics with unusual features.

de Grisogono 15th Anniversary Watches

To celebrate the company’s fifteenth anniversary, de Grisogono presented two watches for which there is no historical precedent—something that doesn’t happen all that often these three tiny multi-surfaced segments—arranged both horizontally and vertically and rotating along their longitudinal axes—that form the digital time display in rose gold or neon green, depending on the metal of the case. Each of the two opposing surfaces in the display mechanism is colored; the other two are black and become invisible against the background of the movement, which in a de Grisogono is typically coated with a dark color. The changing of the time display occurs with a lightning-fast ninety-degree turn of one or more of the segments.

The astonishing automatic Otturatore model, on the other hand, is based on a rotating dial—or, to be more precise, on a rotating center of the dial. Utilizing a highly complex mechanism comprising more than one hundred individual components assembled in modular fashion on the movement, the dial can be turned in one sudden movement ninety degrees in either direction. By pressing a prominent button on the right side of the case at the 2 o’clock position, the dial window allows a view of the date display at 3 o’clock, a power reserve display at 6 o’clock, subsidiary seconds at 9 o’clock, and finally a very original moon phase indication at 12 o’clock.

GENUINE de GRISOGONO (UNO CHRONOGRA) $49,999.00

DE GRISOGONO INSTRUMENTO DOPPIO LIMITED EDITION $45,000.00

DE GRISOGONO DOPPIO 18K ROSE GOLD $44,000.00

NEW Limited de Grisogono Power Breaker S03 18kwg watch. $26,825.00

De Grisogono Power Breaker 18k White Gold Diamond Watch $24,995.00

de GRISOGONO 18K GOLD PEARL 12.00ct DIAMOND EARRINGS $22,000.00

de Grisogono Instrumento Uno, $51,500.00, Diamond Watch $19,575.00

de Grisogono WG Diamond Multi Hoop Earrings $18,478.00

Mens De Grisogono Instrumento No. Uno Platinum Watch $17,995.00

DE GRISOGONO DIAMOND LADIES ROSE GOLD WATCH!!! $17,600.00

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