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Concentrated watch nerdery, SIHH 

First day of SIHH proper, lots of new releases

First up, Montblanc's stuff

New 1858 collection, vintage inspired:

Base model automatic hodinkee.com/articles/montblan

Automatic chrono hodinkee.com/articles/montblan

Limited edition monopusher chrono hodinkee.com/articles/montblan

Now for the more interesting stuff

1858 Geosphere, dual timezones and world time displays for both north and south hemispheres, also has a rather neat compass bezel hodinkee.com/articles/montblan

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Flagship for the Montblanc 1858 collection is a rather neat looking pocket watch, stone blue dial, 24 hour time display with a monopusher chronograph

It also has a pulsation bezel and a compass integrated into the hunter caseback hodinkee.com/articles/montblan

Ulysse Nardin have a new version of the Freak, the Vision. Sci-fi as hell in looks, the minute hand acts as a tourbillon hodinkee.com/articles/ulysse-n

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Not to be outdone in the sci-fi as hell category, MB&F have the Moon Machine 2, projects the time and moonphase display to the side of the case, MB&F know how to make funky watches hodinkee.com/articles/mbandf-m

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Vacheron Constantin are out in force this year

Starting with the most unusual, the Métiers d’ArtLes Aérostiers, a collection of 5 watches celebrating hot air balloons of all things, extremely nice bas-relief engraving and enamelling on these ones hodinkee.com/articles/vacheron

They have now also released their first automatic tourbillon in the Traditionelle Toubillon, very nicely executed hodinkee.com/articles/vacheron

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Vacheron Constantin have a new version of the Overseas Ultra-Thin Perpetual Calendar in pink gold which is a lovely addition to the line hodinkee.com/articles/vacheron

The biggest news from them is the new Fifty Six line, a new entry level (by VC standards), it includes a date, a day-date, and a complete calendar

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Skipping over a few brands I don't really care about to get to my favourite watch brand that I'll never be able to afford, A. Lange & Söhne

A few new versions of their current line first

The 1815 Chronograph is now available in rose gold hodinkee.com/articles/a-lange-

The Saxonia Moon Phase can now be found with black dials hodinkee.com/articles/a-lange-

And the Little Lange 1 now has 3 beautiful guilloché dials available hodinkee.com/articles/a-lange-

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The Saxonia now comes in a new case size and a rather fetching dial they call Copper Blue, very sparkly hodinkee.com/articles/a-lange-

Now to the properly new stuff

The Saxonia Outsize Date adds a big date complication to the Saxonia line which hasn't been available for a while hodinkee.com/articles/a-lange-

And the most interesting, the world's first triple ratrrapante chronograph, the Triple Split hodinkee.com/articles/a-lange-

Concentrated watch nerdery, SIHH 

Let's talk about the Triple Split for a second, other brands make a rattrapante chronograph, that's split seconds

Back in 2004 ALS released the Double Split, the world's first double rattrapante, that's split seconds and minutes

No other brand has ever made a double rattrapante, ALS could have just sat on their hands and still had the world's most complicated chronograph but they one upped themselves with the triple

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