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Last Week in Watches: Lange’s Platinum Datograph, Breitling’s Hand-Wound Navitimers

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Last Week in Watches: Lange’s Platinum Datograph, Breitling’s Hand-Wound Navitimers

A platinum Datograph Perpetual leads this week’s lineup, alongside Breitling’s hand-wound Navitimers, Chopard’s marquetry Full Strike and Renaud Tixier’s Monday Skeleton. Tissot and H. Moser & Cie. also bring personal touches to their latest athlete collaborations.

 

Lange & Söhne Datograph Perpetual

 

Twenty years after the Datograph Perpetual’s debut, A. Lange & Söhne brings a particularly precious anniversary addition for its 20th birthday. A 41mm platinum case meets a five-row platinum bracelet, with eleven baguette-cut diamonds marking the hours against its black dial. Inside, the hand-wound L952.1 retains the combination of the signature flyback chronograph, a perpetual calendar and moonphase that established the original.

 

Tech Specs: A. Lange & Söhne Datograph Perpetual Ref. 410.136 E

Movement Manual-winding caliber L952.1; 36 hours of power reserve
Functions Hours, minutes, small seconds, flyback chronograph, perpetual calendar with outsize date, moonphase, day/night indication
Case 950 platinum; 41 × 13.5mm; water-resistant to 3 bar
Dial Black with rhodié-colored subdials and eleven baguette-cut diamond hour markers
Strap Five-row platinum bracelet with platinum deployant buckle
Price Upon request
Availability Limited to 50 pieces

 

Breitling Navitimer B09 Chronograph 41 and Navitimer B02 Chronograph 41 Cosmonaute

 

Breitling continues its space run with two hand-wound Navitimers joining the brand’s permanent collection, both wearing the historic Twin Jet logo. The B09 comes with black or blue reverse-panda dials and no date, while the B02 Cosmonaute retains its distinctive 24-hour display and incorporates a date within the lower subdial. Their respective B09 and B02 manufacture calibers each offer 70 hours of power reserve.

 

Tech Specs: Breitling Navitimer B09 Chronograph 41 and Navitimer B02 Chronograph 41 Cosmonaute

Movement Manual-winding Breitling manufacture calibers B09 and B02; 70 hours of power reserve each
Functions Both: hours, minutes, small seconds, chronograph, circular slide rule; Cosmonaute: 24-hour time display and date
Case Stainless steel; 41 × 13mm; water-resistant to 30m
Dial B09: black or blue with white subdials; Cosmonaute: black with contrasting subdials and 24-hour numerals
Strap B09: brown gradient calfskin with black dial or blue gradient calfskin with blue dial; Cosmonaute: brown gradient calfskin; leather straps have folding clasps. Seven-row steel bracelets available for both models
Price B09: CHF 6,900 on leather or CHF 7,250 on bracelet; B02 Cosmonaute: CHF 9,350 on leather or CHF 9,650 on bracelet, including VAT

 

Chopard L.U.C Full Strike “Día de los Muertos” Edition 13

 

Chopard gives its Full Strike minute repeater a blue calavera for its thirteenth Día de los Muertos edition. The dial requires an artisan at least 160 hours of work to make, combining deep-blue straw marquetry with eggshell inlays, marking the brand’s first use of this technique. The unique rose-gold watch houses the hand-wound L.U.C 08.01-L, whose chiming system uses gongs formed all from a single piece of sapphire with the watch crystal.

 

Tech Specs: Chopard L.U.C Full Strike “ Día de los Muertos” Edition 13 Ref. 161947-5007

Movement Manual-winding Chopard caliber L.U.C 08.01-L; 60 hours of power reserve
Functions Hours, minutes, minute repeater, separate power-reserve indications for timekeeping and strikework
Case Hand-engraved 18K ethical rose gold; 42.5 × 11.55mm; water resistance not stated in the supplied release
Dial 18K ethical rose-gold base with deep-blue straw marquetry, eggshell marquetry, black lacquer and hand engraving
Strap Hand-sewn cognac-brown alligator leather with hand-engraved 18K ethical rose-gold deployant clasp
Price Upon request

 

Renaud Tixier Monday Skeleton

Renaud Tixier Monday Skeleton

 

Dominique Renaud and Julien Tixier open up the Monday with the skeletonized RVI2025. The automatic movement keeps the ingenious “dancer” mechanism within the platinum micro-rotor, while its exposed architecture gives the hand finishing more room to show. Around the back, its complete with a decorative bridge over the barrel ratchet which combines engraving, chasing and Grand Feu enamel. Blue and green versions extend their colors to the alligator straps.

 

Tech Specs: Renaud Tixier Monday Skeleton Blue and Green

Movement Automatic Renaud Tixier caliber RVI2025; 72 hours of power reserve
Functions Hours, minutes, small seconds
Case 18K gray gold with hand engraving on the case sides and between the lugs; 40.8 × 12.6mm; water-resistant to 30m
Dial Skeletonized with a blue or green satin-finished small-seconds display and matching brushed flange
Strap Matching blue or green hand-stitched alligator leather with 18K gray-gold pin buckle
Price Upon request
Availability Limited to 15 pieces per color

 

Favre Leuba Chief Tourbillon Guilloché

 

Favre Leuba’s second Chief Tourbillon trades the original’s geometric dial for a special blue-hand guilloché. It’s barleycorn pattern is cut on a traditional rose engine dating from the late 19th century, adding traditional decoration around the exposed tourbillon. The watch houses the hand-wound FL T01, developed with Jean-François Mojon’s Chronode, inside the 41mm steel cushion case. The watch is supplied with both a steel bracelet and an additional blue FKM rubber strap.

 

Tech Specs: Favre Leuba Chief Tourbillon Guilloché

Movement Manual-winding Favre Leuba caliber FL T01; 60 hours of power reserve
Functions Hours, minutes, small seconds, tourbillon
Case Stainless steel; 41 × 11.45mm; water-resistant to 100m
Dial Blue hand-guilloché barleycorn pattern with luminous rhodium-plated hands and markers
Strap Brushed and polished steel bracelet with butterfly clasp; additional blue FKM rubber strap
Price CHF 26,000
Availability Limited to 25 pieces

 

Moser & Cie. Pioneer Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton Aventurine Saquon Barkley Edition

 

Moser’s new collaboration with NFL star Saquon Barkley places an adventurine subdial above the skeletonized automatic HMC811 and its cylindrical flying tourbillon. Personal touches from Barkley include luminous numerals 2 and 6 as a reference to his jersey number, while the 97-piece edition nods to his birth year.

 

Tech Specs: H. Moser & Cie. Pioneer Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton Aventurine Saquon Barkley Edition Ref. 3811-1205

Movement Automatic caliber HMC 811; 74 hours of power reserve
Functions Hours, minutes, cylindrical flying tourbillon
Case Steel; 42.8mm diameter, thickness unverified; water-resistant to 12 ATM
Dial Skeletonized with a domed aventurine subdial and luminous numerals 2 and 6
Strap White rubber; clasp specifications unverified
Price CHF 79,000, excluding VAT
Availability Limited to 97 pieces

 

Tissot PRX Skeleton Damian Lillard Special Edition

 

Damian Lillard’s latest Tissot collaboration takes the PRX into larger, hand-wound field. The 44mm steel watch frames a skeletonized display with burgundy colored accents, while a gold-colored monogram marks the running seconds at the nine o’clock. Alongside rubber and leather straps, Tissot also includes a leather holder and chain that turn the watch into a neat pocket-watch accessory.

 

Tech Specs: Tissot PRX Skeleton Damian Lillard Special Edition Ref. T137.405.17.371.00

Movement Manual-winding Swiss skeleton movement; 52 hours of power reserve
Functions Hours, minutes, small seconds
Case Stainless steel; 44 × 11.2mm; water-resistant to 100m
Dial Skeletonized with burgundy accents, faceted markers and a gold-colored monogram seconds hand
Strap Burgundy rubber with pin buckle; additional matching leather strap with folding clasp; leather pocket-watch holder and chain included
Price CHF 1,735

 

Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4

 

Hamilton’s latest Call of Duty collaboration is a Khaki Field Mechanical worn by Captain Price in the new Modern Warfare 4 video game. The 38mm watch combines a sandblasted black PVD-coated steel case with a grained black dial, yellow accents and a typography inspired by the game at the four o’clock. Powering the watch is the hand-wound H-50 with 80 hours of power reserve.

 

Tech Specs: Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical 38mm Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 Ref. H69469930

Movement Manual-winding Hamilton caliber H-50; 80 hours of power reserve
Functions Hours, minutes, seconds
Case Sandblasted black PVD-coated stainless steel; 38 × 9.5mm; water-resistant to 50m
Dial Grained black with yellow accents and luminous hands and markers
Strap Khaki-green textile with pin buckle and quick-release system
Price CHF 675, including VAT