Imagine you run Concord and get antsy one day. “Everyone else has a crazy one-of-a-kind jewelry watch, why can’t we?” So you take your flagship watch from a couple of years ago an slather it richly with precious diamonds and carnelians just like a deli would put cream cheese and lox on a bagel. In a sense, that is what the Concord C1 EternalGravity tourbillon watch looks like. The diamonds are the cream cheese, and the pink/red carnelians is the smoked salmon. Though it won’t be easy to take a bite out of this massive timepiece that is 48.5mm wide and 18.5mm thick in mostly 18k white gold.

Before it was the EternalGravity, the watch was merely the Concord C1 Tourbillon Gravity watch. The focus being on the tourbillon escapement that was vertically aligned and placed facing outward on the lower right hand of the case.  So perhaps the movement is more interesting because in a sense the artist that made it is dead.

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Nixon keeps a decidedly different profile from the usual array of high-end luxury wristwatches we cover, appealing less to the stock broker than to his skater son. But this year the brand has teamed up with the organizers of one of the most hyped-up cross-country rally of exotic automobiles to present a series of special editions under the Nixon x Gumball banner.

The Rubber Player watch pictured above comes in matte black silicon with gold accents on the caseback, crown and dial, and sells for a modest $200. It’s joined by a more exclusive version of the company’s 51-30 wristwatch which will only be provided to rally participants, as well as special edition “e Whip” and “e Wire” headphones made especially for the event at $60 and $75, respectively. They’re available at Nixon retailers along the rally’s route through London, Amsterdam, Boston, Montreal, Toronto and New York, among others. This year’s Gumball 3000 kicks off in London on May 1.

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Rare and old rocks on watches are quickly becoming one of Louis Moinet’s specialties. Until now it was mostly space rocks and old stones, but they are are getting into the fossil business. The operative term for this collection is “Time Explorator.”

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