December 17, 2008
The Ultimate Christmas Watch by Linde Werdelin

Linde Werdelin has designed the perfect Christmas watch this holiday season, right on time for The Watch Digest to suggest our first last minute holiday gift idea; The Hard Green DLC Watch.
The Hard Green DLC Watch by Linde Werdelin is a limited edition watch of 22 pieces marked with unique numbers. And these are not just any numbers, these numbers have been blasted onto the Hard Green DLC Watch by carbon which would make them the hardest numbers around; well almost, only numbers made with diamonds would be stronger. However, most importantly, the combination of carbon blasting and watch making makes the Hard Green DLC durable and perfect for hard core sports.
Although the Hard Green DLC Watch by Linde Werdelin is available with a silver dial design… the green bracelet and case with the red dial and silver hour markers and hands make this watch perfect for Christmas.
For those of you who have not heard of Linde Werdelin, here is a little background. The company was started by Morten Linde and Jorn Werdelin in 2002 as a way to develop a luxury sports watch that sports enthusiast could clip digital instruments onto for timing and measuring. Both guys were pretty well established before the partnership. Morten Linde was a famous Danish designer who created the Copenhagen public park chairs and Jorn Werdelin came from a family of jewelry professionals whose grandfather opened the family boutique. However, Jorn’s success came in investment banking and off-psite skiing which eventually led to his obsession with luxury sports watches.

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December 11, 2008
Fifty Fathoms SPORT by Blancpain

I love this Blancpain sports watch and I love the name “Fifty Fathoms“; it sounds like a super fly pitch black car that talks and transforms and only comes out at night. Imagination aside, the watch is pretty awesome and the basics include a unidirectional bezel, antimagnetic case, self-winding movement, and a black dial.
The solid blackness of the watch makes it undeniably alluring and mysterious as only a few hundred of them leave Blancpain’s workshop each year. There are lots of things I love about this particular Fifty Fathoms watch. The first is its ultra slim status. It comes in at 15.50 mm case thickness, 45 mm in diameter, 23 mm between horns, 5.65 mm calibre thickness, 30.60 calibre diameter, and an ultra slim self winding movement.
Even though the Fifty Fathoms SPORT watch by Blancpain has a date, it doesn’t have a double window date indication, which keeps in with the simple and sleek design. With all this mystery; there must be an amazing story a behind the watch, right? Yes!
The Fifty Fathoms collection came to design when the French Ministry of defense approached Blancpain about creating an elite watch for combat divers that could withstand underwater missions. From then the collection earned credibility among other country special forces units including French Navy GERS and movies like World of Silence.

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December 2, 2008
Alpina Extreme Automatic Watch Collection


Alpina has a long history of watch making. Starting in 1883, a collaboration of manufacturers and retailers created the company we know today. One collection that stands out today is Alpina’s Extreme Automatic Collection. The Alpina Extreme Watches each include alternating black and white dials with a Alpina Geneve logo at the 12 o’clock marker and a date box at the 3 o’clock marker. Six screw like features similar to a compass stand out from the case and a bold red hand points out the seconds.
Alpina’s Extreme Automatic Collection includes my favorite model, AL-525LBS3AE4.This Extreme Automatic Alpina Watch includes an AL-525 caliber and 20 bars of water resistance. Sapphire crystal glass is featured on the 42 mm diameter case and the watch is made of stainless steel in a rose gold color. This Alpina Extreme Automatic Watch has 25 jewels, automatic winding movement and a 42 hour power reserve which work in heights as high as 28,800 feet; the only way an Alpinist would have it. Two other version include model AL-525LBSAE6 and AL-525LSB3AE6B.