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Off the Cuff: Marathon Pilot Navigator

As a product of modern design, the Navigator has been rendered in a high impact composite fibre shell. It is 41mm in diameter and 48mm lug to lug–though its asymmetrical styling and small dial space mean that its wears much smaller than the specs suggest. It is just under 13mm in thickness, as well, but due to the material used in its construction, the watch is shockingly lightweight (40g!). Its lines are clean and crisp, and there is a fine pebbling to the case shell that provides a uniform matte finish. Continue reading Off the Cuff: Marathon Pilot Navigator

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Off the Cuff: Zeppelin Atlantic Automatic GMT 84683

I wonder if Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin understood the importance of his early scribblings in 1874. Twenty years later he must certainly have had some notion, as his ideas were patented first in Germany and then in the United States at the century’s close. So successful were his designs, that his surname would become a common noun applied to all rigid bodied airships. Continue reading Off the Cuff: Zeppelin Atlantic Automatic GMT 84683

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Off the Cuff: MMI Sky-Hunter 38

The timepiece draws inspiration from Britain’s Hawker Hunter–a trans-sonic fighter jet that spent more than sixty years patrolling the skies from 1954 to 2014. The prototype for the jet, which used a newly minted Rolls Royce Avon Turbo Engine and a swept-wing design, broke the world record for air speed the year before it became commercially available. Continue reading Off the Cuff: MMI Sky-Hunter 38

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