Friday, July 21, 2023

Greubel Forsey Balancier S2 Titanium Blue Rubber Strap

 

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Today, I personally experienced the latest new generation of ultra-high-end sports watches launched by Greubel Forsey in Switzerland. Here's the Titanium-cased Balancier S2 (debuted on aBlogtowatch) that I can wear on either the strap or the matching titanium bracelet. In a sense, the purpose of this watch is to answer the question: what brand can rival Richard Mille? This has been a hot topic of debate among some members of the luxury watch industry. You see, Richard Mille was never the only million-dollar watch game in town, but it is the story of one rare ultra-premium brand that consistently sells more watches than it produces. Everyone wants a piece of Richard Mille demand, and companies like Greubel Forsey think they can offer something that really appeals to consumers - even if it's as a Richard Mille replacement (for now).

Already a master in its field, Greubel Forsey high quality cheap watches plans to increase production (we're talking just a few hundred more watches a year), but given the brand's solid but cautious reputation to date, there will also be a bigger wave of marketing. Until recently, no Greubel Forsey company that I knew of had ever had a CEO other than its founders, Robert Gooper and Stephen Foss. From what I understand, the appointment of Mr Carles is a big step forward for the company, which is largely independent apart from a small stake owned by Richemont.

Greubel Forsey makes watches that are well constructed, durable and extremely well made. In my experience, they are probably the best finished watches of any company that mass-produces timepieces.

This particular curved case variant is the first GMT Sport watch presented by Greubel Forsey on aBlogtoWatch during Dubai Watch Week 2019. Two years later, Greubel Forsey has decided to launch the new Balancier S2 at Dubai Watch Week 2021, and it's great. The case is titanium, probably the best part of the whole package. It's 46.5mm wide, but don't let that fool you - it's very comfortable to wear. The case and bezel have an interesting curvature that echoes the shape of the sapphire crystal glass. This interesting fusion of shapes gives the luxury cheap Watches extremely conservative proportions from some angles and very avant-garde proportions from others. Very few case designs I've come across do this well.

Although the Balancier is arguably the simplest movement Greubel Forsey has produced, it is by no means boring. Quite the opposite, in fact, as the appeal lies in the way the various moving elements are rendered and shaped. The whole point of a Balancier watch movement is that the balance wheel has an inclined position, similar to the 24-degree or so inclination of many of the brand's tourbillons. I believe their thinking was that they found this inclination to be the ideal position in the watch where it would naturally be worn on the wrist on an average day-to-day basis (since gravity affects performance in a slight way). The presentation of the diagonally sloping balance wheel on the dial and in the movement is part of the fun, and the dial has a downward curving look, hence the visual chromatic aberration of the dial's underplate.high quality watches replica

The hand-wound movement itself runs at a frequency of 3 Hz and has a power reserve of approximately 72 hours. It has a power reserve indicator near the exposed mainspring barrel. Near the eye-catching balance wheel assembly is a small but efficient auxiliary seconds dial. Greubel Forsey probably thought the overall design was futuristic. It doesn't make them into a design museum, but the overall look is pleasing and a welcome sight for any longtime Greubel Forsey fan.

Will it impress newcomers to the Greubel Forsey brand? best replica watches. That’s a good question, and it’s likely that, in order to get where a brand wants to go, it needs to combine a product design strategy with brilliant and artful cultural penetration through an effective marketing campaign, much as Richard Mille started doing at least a decade ago. Regardless, I think the high-end sports watch market is big enough for more than one brand to stand out in the upper echelon. There may still be room for several multi-million dollar sports watch brands in the world.

A matching titanium bracelet completes the look of this new sports case. This bracelet does wear a bit like a Richard Mille bracelet and is very carefully polished, as you would expect from Greubel Forsey. The folding clasp is satisfactory and has a micro-adjustment system. That said, the mechanisms are familiar, and in the future I hope to see more original mechanisms in Greubel Forsey bracelets, as I think they can design something crazy. replica Richard Mille FELIPE MASSA

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