Exclusive Watch For Man..

The British brand watch brand Bremont recently launched The Supermarine Descent and during the launch Tom Cruise pictures wearing Belmont ALT1-C made quite a splash. The Bremont watches do have celebrity following for a reason.


Bremont offers exclusive watches for people who share a passion for flying, planes, diving or even climbing mountains. So it doesn’t come as surprise that polar explorer Ben Saunders is a Bremont Ambassador and Tom Cruise who has penchant for planes and flying wears Bremont ALTC-1 when he is in flying mode.



Wrist watches do serve a purpose beyond simple time-keeping and that is why there are so many exclusive and expensive ranges of brands and watches.  Bremont ALTC-1 is truly horological device which includes vintage aircraft gauges like altimeter, fuel gauge and other gauges showing important parameters crucial for flying.



The Supermarine Descent is water resistant and sapphire bezel dial is luminous in low light conditions.  These dials are extremely simple and easy to read. The watches are over all very stylish and come in colors too. ALTC-1 boasts of COSC Chronometer certified chronograph movement. These watches are exclusively designed for celebrities and people who share deep passion for adventurous pursuits.


Isn’t it amazing that a small wrist watch can accommodate so much information on dial and display time too? Why Bremont? Ask Tom Cruise, Bear Grylls, Ewan McGregor, Jake Meyer, Sara Campbell and many others who love to sport it on their wrists as gadgets when they are in full adventure gear

Very Expensive Watches Collection 2011

I was flipping through the 2010 Wristwatch Annual and found a wristwatch with a price of just over a million dollars.  It’s called a Cat’s Eye Haute Joaillerie and made by the Girard-Perregaux watch company.   There is something reassuring about a world in which a million dollar wristwatch exists.


My current watch hangs from an aluminum carabiner and cost a bit less than a million dollars-about $15 as I recall-at Wal-Mart.  This does not mean that I don’t have plans for owning a very expensive wristwatch one of these days.   I have a great fondness for the look of Hublot, Graham, Greubel Forsey, and Jacob & Co watches.  A lot of these watches are call Tourbillon, which must have something to with how much money you need to own one.


I spend a lot of time roaming the halls of my local libraries, The Irving Public Library ranks among my favorites, though The Fort Worth Library is also very good.  Irving seems to always have recent stuff on their shelves.  Recent release DVDs are common and the occasional oddity like The 2010 Wristwatch Annual.
Here is a book I would not expect to find in a library, as it is basically a catalog of watch makers the average person has never heard of, and even readers of the Robb Report might not recognize.   I do like the countless photographs of space age, steam punk, and totally incomprehensible watches.  Some of the makers of these $1,00-$1,000,000 dollar watches seem to pride themselves on making a watch that doesn’t, in any noticeable way, tell what time it is.





Romain Jerome’s watches look like they would be at home in a Mad Max film, while the watches of Daniel Roth have a more Harry Potter feel to them.  I was surprised to find that Rolex’s most expense model was a mere $33,650.



There is also a couple of pages of Seiko watches-I’ve never thought of Seiko as being in exactly the same class as Rolex or TAG Heuer.




It’s fun to riffle the pages of the wristwatch annual, in the same it is fun to look at yachts and private jets-these are toys for others to play with.


Even if I had the billions to spent, I can’t image blowing them all on wristwatches. Well, maybe just one of the steam punk models from Montblanc.