Around The World: Feldmar’s Flagship Flag Day Picks
Let’s face it, once you catch the luxury dress watch bug, there’s no going back. There’s always one more watch your collection absolutely requires. In honor of everybody’s favorite, weird holiday, here are some of our favorites to run up the flagpole on Flag Day!
🇬🇧 OMEGA Seamaster 300M James Bond 007 “No Time to Die” Edition
The OMEGA Seamaster collection is a nod to the past, launched to celebrate the 100th anniversary of OMEGA in 1948, using the watches of the British military as inspiration; to the present, as the timepiece of choice when James Bond is dressing to kill; and to the future, with cutting edge dive watch technology 🇬🇧 Crafted of lightweight yet strong titanium, the case of this James Bond 007 “No Time to Die” edition features a brown tropical aluminum bezel, screw-in crown, and unidirectional rotating bezel, with a rich brown dial and functional yet vintage patina SuperLumiNova on the hands and dial. Of special interest to diving enthusiasts, this watch is METAS-certified, water resistant to 300 meters, with anti-magnetic and helium escape valve complications, and a 55-hour power reserve. Perfectly finished with a mesh titanium strap. James Bond may operate under the British flag, but he’s an international spy, at home in any country that has beautiful women and knows how to make a perfect martini.
🌎 Breitling Navitimer B01 Chronograph 41 – 2022
This is the watch of choice for jet-setting pilots who cross timezones as often as most of us cross the street 🌎 The Breitling Navitimer, debuted in 1952 as a functional tool watch for pilots to perform necessary flight calculations, and to this day is a mechanical chronograph of unparalleled sophistication and precision. Think of this as that rarest of tool watches that looks every bit as good as it works. The newest timepieces in the Navitimer collection include all the classic, beloved features, with the modern refinements Breitling is famous for. The lustrous stainless steel case of the B01 Chronograph 41 alternates polished and brushed metal elements, with bidirectional slide rule bezel, dual glare proof cambered sapphire, and screwed-in sapphire crystal case back. The satiny mint green dial features chronograph counters, date indicator, and rich gold hands and hour markers. You’ll always be a man of the world with this Breitling Navitimer on your wrist.
🇨🇭 Tudor Black Bay S&G Chrono 41MM Steel and Gold
As a truly global city, Geneva, Switzerland, is home to more international organizations than any other place in the world 🇨🇭 It should come as no surprise, then, that a truly global watch company like Tudor would be headquartered there. There are many great diving watches on the market, but few are as fearlessly iconic as those that make up the Tudor Black Bay collection. The Black Bay S&G 41MM Steel and Gold has all the characteristics that made Black Bay such a seminal horological creation—domed sapphire crystal, angular “snowflake” hands, prominent winding crown, and a Big Crown—with features and details that truly stand out. Stainless steel case with fixed yellow gold bezel with black anodized aluminum disc and tachymetric scale, yellow gold screw-down crown and pushers. The stunning gold and black dial has chronograph counters, date indicator, and luminescent hands and hour markers. The riveted stainless steel and gold strap makes a bold statement.
🇮🇹 Chopard Mille Miglia Classic Chronograph
In the right hands, passion, even obsession, can create truly exceptional art. Case in point—co-president of Chopard Karl-Friedrich Scheufele’s passion for auto racing. In particular, his love of the Mille Miglia, a thousand mile, open-road motorsport endurance race that criss-crosses Italy from Brescia to Rome and back, gifted to watch lovers the Mille Miglia collection 🇮🇹 Each timepiece in the collection is a bold combination of automotive engineering and mechanical watch making. This classic chronograph is one of the most distinctive of all. The stainless steel case has a crystal case back and glass box sapphire crystal. This is a watch for the man who wants to—no, needs to—be noticed, with a brilliant cherry red dial that features chronograph counters, hands and hour markers with Super-LumiNova, and a tachymeter scale. The brown calfskin leather strap finishes the watch with a supple organic feel.
🇫🇷 Hermes Heure H
Paris, France, is one of the world’s headquarters for fashion, known for timeless, classic sophistication 🇫🇷 It’s also the headquarters for Hermes, who happen to know a little about timeless, classic sophistication themselves. In 1996, designer Philippe Mouque had the inspired idea to turn the famous Hermes “H” initial into a ladies’ watch, creating the classic Heure H collection, and the rest is watch history. This particular model is sleek, stylish, and sophisticated, with a seductive edge that will becon onlookers from whatever wrist it adorns. A true original, with a case of microblasted titanium, a sapphire crystal caseback, and anti-glare sapphire crystal. The brushed black dial displays Arabic numeral markers and luminescent hands. With an interchangeable black Barenia calf leather strap, the Hermes Heure H timepiece is as distinctive as the woman who wears it.
🇱🇺 TAG Heuer Carrera Automatic Chronograph 🇨🇭
Some marriages seem divinely inspired—case in point, the marriage between Luxembourg-headquartered conglomerate TAG and Swiss watchmaker Heuer 🇱🇺 🇨🇭 Two organizations, two countries, one amazing watch company. The TAG Heuer Carrera collection was first introduced in 1963 as a celebration of the racing life, inspired by speed, performance, and the tenacious drive to succeed. Meant to be bold, distinctive, daring, yet elegant, these watches succeed on every front. This Carrera Automatic Chronogragh has a stainless steel case with 18K rose gold crown and push pieces, black ceramic tachymeter fixed bezel, sapphire caseback, and domed anti-reflective sapphire crystal. The ravishing black dial is ornamented with 18K rose gold hands and indexes that complement the crown, along with white Super-LumiNova hands and indexes. The richly appointed black alligator leather strap is a classic, stylish choice.
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About The Author: Tom Roth
Born in Washington state, Tom developed an interest in photography during college at University of San Diego. There, he got started in music journalism, interviewing artists and taking photos at concerts. A life-long tinkerer and collector, it wasn’t long before Tom became fascinated with fountain pens and watches.
Those interests collided in November 2020 when Tom started at Feldmar Watch Company where he lives out every watch geek’s dream: photographing and writing about timepieces. When he’s not tinkering with his watch collection, Tom can be found traveling, biting his nails while watching PNW sports teams, and taking flying lessons.
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