Wristwatch Updates: Helson, Formula 1 Gulf, Breitling, & More!

Many great photos in today's links. (pic courtesy of Monochrome)

I like the look of this HELSON Skindiver '100 Fathoms.' And be sure not to miss the Glashutte Original Senator Rattrapante LE pics. This Lange's not too bad, either!

The last Speake-Marin Piccadilly and Piccadilly Serpent models available: "Peter Speake-Marin’s first wristwatch was the Piccadilly and he produced several series and many unique pieces, always featuring the typical Speake-Marin style. These first series, called the Original Piccadilly Collection with Enamel Dial and the Original Picadilly Serpent have now come to an end."

Watchscapes: Jaeger LeCoultre Grande Tradition Grande Complication: "The dial is an amazingly beautiful blue, engraved with the stars and firmament, the flying tourbillon makes its way around the dial once every 12 hours. This wandering tourbillon is quite a technical feat on its own, but this one even allows the sidereal time to be tracked, and is programmed to turn around the dial to show the sidereal time."

First Look: 2011 TAG Heuer Formula 1 Gulf - Calibre 11: "Like the Monaco Gulf series, the new Formula 1 Gulf has a vertical blue and orange stripe on the dial- but while the coloured stripes on the Monaco are the same width, the Formula 1 Gulf has a much thinner orange stripe."

Letters From The Editor: Why The Seamaster 1948 Was My Favorite Omega Of Basel World - HODINKEE: "The watch features the very same dial layout that the original Seamaster had, and is sized at a lovely 38mm (is 38mm a new trend, btw?). Inside is Omega's fantastic co-axial movement and it comes on a great alligator strap. What I like about this watch is that it is every bit a classical Omega, but with a thoroughly modern caliber. This is a modern Omega I would wear."

A Vintage Breitling Chronograph With a Vintage Rolex Daytona Movement: "However, I found this nice vintage Breitling Chronograph from the 1970s with a Valjoux 72 handwound chronograph movement. This movement has also been used by Rolex for their (Oyster) Cosmograph Daytona models from that period. The Breitling has – more or less – the same small dimensions as these 1970s Rolex Daytonas. A 37mm diameter case and 13mm in height."

Glashütte Original - Baselworld 2011: The big PuristSPro report: "The new models by the Glashütte Original manufacture are more a consolidation of past years’ innovations, partially with new design."

[BaselWorld] Opus XI Harry Winston, Time Bomb - Blog Watchonista: "The initial idea of Opus XI was to make burst the time. With the presence of Internet, the globalization, tendency to be less social, more digital when the rhythms are broken by the jet-lags, by things to be finished in urgency, by the foreman of Chinese work, the idea of “temporal explosion” makes absolute sense then."

[BaselWorld] Patek Philippe 2011 novelties: "We love the big movie festivals like Césars, Cannes or the very small ones i.e.Cognac or Sundance. Here I come to attend the Oscars. Quite simply. The stars, spangles, flashes awaking epilepsy, and luxury before all.
Patek Philippe. I walk out with my traditional Zegna tie, but especially with plenty of photographs of so much awaited Patek Philippe hot watch news."

The 2011 Singapore Jaeger-LeCoultre Post SIHH 2011 Collectors Dinner: "For an important evening such as this, Jaeger-LeCoultre Global CEO Mr. Jerome Lambert made a special effort to travel to Singapore from Switzerland and the capable Singapore Jaeger-LeCoultre team of Managing Director Alexis De Laporte, Garina Tan and Alethea Tan spared no effort in ensuring that the evening would be as memorable as it possibly can."

[Easter Egg] Patek Philippe 5140W - Blog Watchonista: "A ' Collector' member of the Watchonista community lent me this marvelous watches yesterday for lunchtime.... only.
Comfort on wrist stay unbelievable due to the bracelet in white gold and the thickness of the movement integrating the microrotor."

Additional links:
Citizen Promaster professional diver's titanium
[BaselWorld] Linde Werdelin Toolwatches 2.0
Some WWII-Era Rolex ads ...
Interview with Scott Devon of Devon Works and the Tread 1
Damasko DC66 Watch Is Venerable Sinn 757 Alternative, Competitor