Yeah fair point they did some amazing stuff all right, especially the La Quête Du Temps pieces and the Solaria. The time to transit rattrapante complication on the Solaria was pretty neat. Of course all their complications innovations come with breath-stealing price tags but there's a lot of that going around right now 😃
Fair point and I think I am not even looking at prices, a lot of these are showcase pieces, the Solaria, the Lqdt.. at least but I think in a world where somehow the focus has been so much on finishing, dials, new materials, it’s a wonderful reminder that we’re still mostly dealing with a romantic and traditional industry and these are some proper old school highlight on the poetry of complications…
I bought the Omega Spirate they refer to at the end. At least on my timegrapher the watch is running very well (0 spd, 295 amplitude, 0.1 BE), and I think the watch looks cool, but it’s likely true the new system will never be widely adopted, including by Omega.
1916 as a company has lost some credibility with me after watching a few interviews with Kevin O’Leary. I am not again Kevin at all, he is a character. It’s the way 1916 CEO kissing Kevin’s ass, singing high praises of some obviously “only collectibles for non watch enthusiast rich people” makes me feel this company is not serious about real watch collecting. That’s my bias.
Very interesting interview, especially the comments toward the end regarding innovations in watch technology that have been disregarded or abandoned for one reason or another.
100%, the list can be pretty long depending on how you frame it. Pre financial crisis brands seemed to be vying to outdo each other in exotic complications (like the entire Harry Winston Opus series, which were always exciting to see at Baselworld partly because you never knew whether or not they would actually work 😀)
Great episode, but seriously shocked that VC didn’t come up once during the whole episode… they owned 2025..
Yeah fair point they did some amazing stuff all right, especially the La Quête Du Temps pieces and the Solaria. The time to transit rattrapante complication on the Solaria was pretty neat. Of course all their complications innovations come with breath-stealing price tags but there's a lot of that going around right now 😃
Fair point and I think I am not even looking at prices, a lot of these are showcase pieces, the Solaria, the Lqdt.. at least but I think in a world where somehow the focus has been so much on finishing, dials, new materials, it’s a wonderful reminder that we’re still mostly dealing with a romantic and traditional industry and these are some proper old school highlight on the poetry of complications…
i agree that they had the best releases of 2025! from the steel 222 to solaria and even to the 36mm QPs
I bought the Omega Spirate they refer to at the end. At least on my timegrapher the watch is running very well (0 spd, 295 amplitude, 0.1 BE), and I think the watch looks cool, but it’s likely true the new system will never be widely adopted, including by Omega.
Those are nice numbers! Good to hear from an actual owner. Hoping to get one to test drive from Omega one of these days.
this is excellent news! i do see they that there are super racings listed on c24, but interesting it has remained just in that model for now.
1916 as a company has lost some credibility with me after watching a few interviews with Kevin O’Leary. I am not again Kevin at all, he is a character. It’s the way 1916 CEO kissing Kevin’s ass, singing high praises of some obviously “only collectibles for non watch enthusiast rich people” makes me feel this company is not serious about real watch collecting. That’s my bias.
not mr. wonderful! i haven't seen these interviews but i'll say in general i enjoy the youtube stuff i watch
Love the crossover episode with two of my favorite watch writers! (+the shoutout to Chris Hall!)
a real substack fest
Very interesting interview, especially the comments toward the end regarding innovations in watch technology that have been disregarded or abandoned for one reason or another.
a thread worth pulling on further, for sure
100%, the list can be pretty long depending on how you frame it. Pre financial crisis brands seemed to be vying to outdo each other in exotic complications (like the entire Harry Winston Opus series, which were always exciting to see at Baselworld partly because you never knew whether or not they would actually work 😀)