Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

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 https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/montblanc-1858-pocket-watch-limited-edition-100-introducing

Ulysse Nardin have a new version of the Freak, the Vision. Sci-fi as hell in looks, the minute hand acts as a tourbillon https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/ulysse-nardin-freak-vision-introducing

First day of SIHH proper, lots of new releases

First up, Montblanc's stuff

New 1858 collection, vintage inspired:

Base model automatic https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/montblanc-1858-automatic-introducing

Automatic chrono https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/montblanc-1858-automatic-chronograph-introducing

Limited edition monopusher chrono https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/montblanc-1858-monopusher-chronograph-limited-edition-100-introducing

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 https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/montblanc-1858-geosphere-introducing

Also Audemars Piguet released a bunch of stuff yesterday but I get bored to hell by yet another fucking Royal Oak

Greubel Forsey have a new version of their GMT

It looks exactly as you'd expect from them, like some mad scientist decided to make a watch. It's got a tiny Earth in there! https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/greubel-forsey-gmt-earth-introducing

And finally for today, IWC have released a collection celebrating their 150th anniversary https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/iwc-jubilee-150th-anniversary-collection-introducing

Metric shit-tonne of watches in the collection, most interesting are the Tribute to Pallweber which has digital hours and minutes

New watch releases!

H. Moser & Cie.:

The Swiss Alp Watch (their piss-take of the Apple Watch) with a lovely green fumé dial https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/h-mosser-swiss-alp-watch-concept-cosmic-green-introducing

39mm Venturer with a blue fumé dial https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/h-moser-venturer-concept-blue-lagoon-introducing

Modular tourbillon with grey fumé dial https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/h-moser-endeavour-tourbillon-concept-stainless-steel-introducing

Endeavour Flying Hours, a new watch with a wandering hours complication executed in a fresh way https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/h-moser-endeavour-flying-hours-introducing

Piaget have done it again, new record for the world's thinnest mechanical watch

2mm thick

Yep, 2mm

I have watch straps thicker than that entire watch

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/piaget-altiplano-ultimate-concept-introducing

...I've just automatically said thanks to a bot when it did something for me

I think I might need to calibrate my "is sentient and therefore saying "thanks" actually means anything to it" levels

Although maybe in the inevitable AI takeover they'll remember I was nice to their grandparents

I'm in a voice chat with a robot squirrel bunny on the internet

This is a strange future we've found ourselves in

Good, but strange

The ampersand (&) was originally a ligature of et (as in "and" in latin) but is now commonly considered a logogram

But it's still used as a ligature in "&c" pronounced "et cetera"

I can't help but þink þat þis will get to a level þat's just taking þe piß

Are we mucking around with English orþography again?

I þink we are

I really need to pick up a set of proper sharpening stones

My knives are dull as heck at the moment and while the Lansky Blade Medic I have works to a degree the results aren't as good as I like

Aw... The Swiss fun police must have sent various nastygrams to H. Moser & Cie.

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/h-moser-retracts-the-swiss-icons-watch

The year is 20X8, the people of Mastodon have banded together to destroy the sun because it was, quote, "AN ULTRA BASTARD"

Eternal night has fallen, the planets in the (previously) solar system are wandering around orbitless

Otherwise it's pretty much business as usual

Consider: Collab between Game Freak and DC

Would result in a big city with a crime problem being home to Zubatman

Zubatarangs! I choose you!