Last Fall, Ulysse Nardin presented the new Classic Sonata watch, featuring a stainless steel case and a blue dial. Today, the elegant collection is enriched with two new editions, eternal black and rose gold, or stainless steel with blue markers, each with a black alligator strap. Both models have a 44-mm diameter case, water resistant to 30 meters, with a sapphire crystal case back.
The Ulysse Nardin Marine Chronometer Annual Calendar will be made in a limited run of 100 watches, and instead of engraving “Limited Edition” on the caseback as usual, Ulysse Nardin has integrated a metal plaque into the rubber strap with those words engraved. That’s going to be an expensive, possibly hard-to-find, replacement item in the future. All in all, the watch offers interesting mechanics and can be a great-looking chronometer-inspired design. The Ulysse Nardin Marine Chronometer Annual Calendar is available from boutiques and retailers for 9,900 CHF. Ulysse Nardin’s history and identity is deeply intertwined with that of the marine chronometer, and in a year underpinned by a return to classic pieces for design inspiration, the brand has tapped into this history and recently introduced the Ulysse Nardin Marine Torpilleur, which it predicts a chronometer for the contemporary age (though based on old pocket watch layouts). When it may be motivated by classic marine chronometers, the Marine Torpilleur is a more contemporary and less formal alternative to the brand’s present Marine Chronometer watches.Torpilleur is the French expression for a destroyer, that will be a small, nimble warship. Its use is supposed to be a indication that this is a lighter, thinner version, which strictly speaking, is true. The Ulysse Nardin Marine Torpilleur comes at a 42mm case as opposed to the 43mm of this Marine Chronometer – that is really a “splitting-hairs” degree of gap. The actual distinction is in the motion and complications. Contrary to the Marine Chronometer watches which are powered with the Calibre UN-113 with annual calendar disadvantage, the Ulysse Nardin Marine Torpilleur is powered with the automated Calibre UN-118 that delivers time, date, and power reserve functions, but no yearly calendar.
With the Classic Sonata, mechanical complications are always designed with the wearer in mind, the goal being a fusion of form and function. This edition of the Classic Sonata certainly pleases on an aesthetic level, with its streamlined design. After all, simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication. But don’t be deceived, this timepiece is also incredibly functional.
Mechanical complications pared down to their most essential form make this timepiece an ideal travel companion. An alarm function which wakes the user with a pleasant cathedral chime is positioned be-tween 12 o’clock and 2 o’clock. In the center of the counter, the ‘countdown’ display of the last 12 hours, allows to select a wake-up in the morning or in the afternoon.
Another exclusive Ulysse nardin ladies watches prices Replica innovation, the Dual Time function, means both home time and current time can be viewed simultaneously. Driven by the UN-67 manufacture movement, it has been re-designed for even better ease of use. Time zone adjustment can be made both forwards and backwards, just by using the pushers to change the position of the hour hand.
Ulysse Nardin has numerous powerful fascinating and collections, technically intriguing watches for us to discuss. In the innovative Freak set to complicated chiming watches, artistic dials, and much more, their Executive collection can get overlooked. The last time we covered a Ulysse Nardin Executive set watch, in actuality, was using the Executive Double Time reviewed here back in 2012. The Executive is characterized by a really modern and even slightly sporty instance with triple-pronged lugs (necessitating proprietary straps), oversize Roman numerals in the compass points of the dial, along with also the flat rectangle in the center. The name – and all the Roman numerals, perhaps – seems to indicate a conservative and company theme.If the Ulysse Nardin Executive Skeleton Tourbillon is to be exploited by some type of executive or CEO, but I imagine he’d function as Richard Branson variety. The Ulysse Nardin Executive Skeleton Tourbillon was introduced in 2016, and this version increases the situation’s size and offers it in blue – since it is still, apparently, the watch business’s current couleur du jour. UN has stripped down both the dial and the movement to make a three-dimensional look of negative space and architectural thickness. Some of those cleverly designed dial elements support the movement while some do not. The Roman numerals and central square are all different components, and while we are only looking at leaves and pictures in the brand for the time being, we can expect the completing will be expertly executed.
