Horological Meandering

Beginning of this new year, the white and black models of the LINDE WERDELIN pieces landed in Singapore - The White Watch and the Hard Black II.

Below are some quick snapshots of the two models ....

Starting with the The White Watch from the 3 Timer Collection.
 
From LINDE WERDELIN's material, the White Watch is created due to numerous requests and feedback from their clientele for a lady version of LINDE WERDELIN.  The new LINDE WERDELIN for Ladies dimension could not be altered as the instruments must still fit onto the watch, in case she skis or dive !

The team decided to use the white theme.  Is white the new black?  Possibly.  The long awaited white iPhone 4 takes forever to come out, and in the golf arena, white is in causing an uproar for the demand of new White Drivers like the Cobra's Limited Edition ZL Driver then followed by the Taylormade Rossa Ghost putters and now the Taylormade R11 Driver.  The latest I read today, Richard Mille has a new 'golf watch"  RM038 sports tourbillon which would be on Bubba' Watson, current longest drive on the PGA tour.

I digressed but I do not  think this watch should be tagged as the female version of the LINDE WERDELIN  but would say a softer colour which is more suitable for the Lady segment.  To be more lady-friendly, matching details like white filled markers on the bezel and screws are added.  The most important of all, to ensure comfortable daily wear and the White Watch seats snugly on slender wrist, thinner and softer pointed calf strap is used instead of their thick leather straps which is also for most Asian guys.



3 Timer enable tracking of three timezones.

All around case is of brush-finishing except for the angled facets/chamfers which are gloss finished.


Hour markers on bezel and the screws are  filled with white ink.


Pretty superb skill to keep the edges in high definition with two types of polishing at different polishing angles.











Light green, near white SuperLuminova coating on the rhodium plated markers to match the colour theme ...


Upon charged ...


Soft pointed leather strap ...













Solid screw-in caseback with the serial number engraved and housing inside is automatic ETA 2893-A2. 
Water resistance rating to 300m.
Limited to quantity of 51 pieces.






Next is the tough cookie Hard Black II from The One Collection.

This is one cool watch, and for those who prefer complete matt surface, this could be your option.

The Hard Black II, steel case is annealed at high temperature to harden the steel before the DLC (Diamond Like Coating) process which further increase the hardness of the case ( about three times harder than steel) for scratch-proof. 
The effectiveness of the DLC was 'accidentally tested' by one of our friends here, RahulR.  His Hard Black II smashed onto the marble floor and the casing still looked new!  Please  click here   to read his narration. 

Let's have a look at this stealth-watch ...


All surfaces are matt finished including the hands!

The stitching on the straps seem to glow too!

The printed markers on the rehaut ring does not glow, only the SuperLuminova coated markers (on the dial) and hands do.


Superb clarity at most viewing angles with the anti-reflective coated sapphire crystal.


Perhaps this may be interesting.  The lead-in of the straps( into the lug-areas) seemed to be matt too, blending seamlessly with the matt DLC case.





Matt signed crown.








This pic shows the slightly matted surface of the strap leading into the case ...





Resolution of edges still remain sharp after DLC.








A view of the opposite side ...











Dial surface and hands are matted.






Solid caseback with serial number engraved, likely to be either DLC or PVD, housing an automatic ETA 289 –A2.
Limited to production of 88 pieces.




Several wrist-shots on a gentleman ...

At that moment of the shoot, no lady was around, so a gentleman stood in.

The White looks good on his wrist as the design of the LINDE WERDELIN case is macho.





With Hard Black II ...





I have a question, would you wear The WHITE,  Gentlemen? 


Kong

















Some Related Posts

The Deepsea Creatures of Linde Werdelin

Modifications to my Linde Werdelin 3 Timer by Relativist

Adding a LW to my collection...by RahulR

Some V&W photos of my Linde Werdelin Elemental by JanJ

Real Pics of the LINDE WERDELIN 3-Timer Racing - Red & Yellow

Linde Werdelin Octopus"Tattoo" by MOC

LINDE WERDELIN Novelties in Singapore

Basel 2009: Linde Werdelin by Marcus Hanke

GTE: the Linde Werdelin Spidolite by FX

I could see wearing the white dial but not on the white strap. BTW, isn't filling the hex nuts with white paint a little odd? If I am not mistaken, the hex nuts are functional and have to be removed to change the strap. I would think that with one strap change, the inset paint would be chipped / damaged. Nice looking piece, however.

That's a good question about the possibility of paint chip in the hex-nut. 
Will check if the ADs have spares to anticipate the issue.

Thanks DSD.

Kong

The Creative One with the most answers to why '51' pieces

You like neither of these models?

Kong

First, there were no ballet slippers in the post - click here . Bad form....

Second, if there were any prizes when this question was asked in August - click here - then MTF has been exceedingly slow (to put it benignly) to announce the results and distribute the prizes. Bad form...

Third, nobody did anything about the LW ads obscuring text on screen - click here -  and now the mental scarring is permanent. Bad look...

Finally, white is the colour of surrender: AndrewD reckons that may be OK for the French, Italian or Iraqi markets, but he says that no self-respecting Australian 'bloke' or 'sheila' should be seen dead (or should only be seen dead) in a white watch on a white strap.

 

Cheers,

pplater.

...wouldn't the white watch help your credentials with the white shoe brigade?

Wrong state BDLJ: white shoes for banana-benders, white thongs for sandgropers!

Cheers,
pplater.

...on the white shoes, I'm heading up to Maloolaba/Bribie next week...Also get to play Spot-The-AWOL/FIFO-Sticker game

 

sangroper?

Hey! Do you think your avatar need to change colour?

Kong

Definitely no ballet slippers

For the second reason, ok, you can blame me :-(  
Supposed to raise the challenge again very soon to compete with the current most Creative One

Third, you need a bigger screen

Fourth reason ... no words...I surrender

Kong

First, DSD brings up a good point....

but to return to the initial question, yes i'd wear it, but only in tropical/mediterranean situations (southern italy?)......

At first I was not fond of LW, but they really are growing on me.  I could see them as part of an (extensive) collection--but i would need a core set of timeless watches before I make that kind of purchase.....

Thanks for sharing
Jason

Hi Jason

Why only wear it at tropical places?  Not in your area?

Thanks for the input.

Kong

in an era where brands are going back to their roots polishing some of their  iconic watches and putting it in production again " a limited run of watches in majority of cases "  which help strengthin the identity or an image of a certain brand ... infront of that where will such brands like LW will stand ... in the current era of back to the roots ... i do believe that its a demanding era  such brands need more than a color switching to leave a remarkable finger print..

 Faisal

for your POV.

I feel LW's 'finger print' is the case-shape with the facets and sharp edges. 
Agreeable, just changing colour will reach saturation point fast.

Kong

Was that trend started by Chanel?  I like both watches, but the dial of the Hard Black is much nicer (The One is my favorite LW model) IMO.  I love the matte black finish on the watch.  Great pictures of both timepieces, Kong!

Cheers,
Daos

... why brides marry in white. Aren't all kitchen appliances white???

;-)  ;-)  ;-)

 

Cheers,

pplater.

What's that say about me?    Don't get me wrong, I think white watches are pretty hot from a fashion perspective.

Cheers,
Daos

... there's too much FASHION involved.

It must be the time of the year...

Somewhat TIC*

Andrew

*Tongue-in-cheek

No more oysters to eat?

Daos

Even if you wear the most obscure.

That's true, but I still prefer watches that are 'fit for purpose'. Watches that are functionally designed to do what they were meant to, and physically designed to fit the human wrist comfortably and not get caught on clothing. Once they go outside of this in terms of sizes that are not wearable, dial colours that are not legible (remember black dials with black hands!), and materials that are not appropriate for the purpose, all for the sake of 'fashion', I start to lose interest.

Perhaps we should have a grumpy old mens forum?

A

My wife chides me all the time for venting opinions to the editor of my local paper (and getting them published). LOL

one can argue that there are alot of buyers of Pams , APs etc are also buying them as fashionable items. and i have no issues with tht. i havebought watches basis of fashion the its horological merits as well. but i believe i have a good balance fro  watches in the "fashion" spectrum to serious horological pieces.

the problem for me is fashion pieces trying to pass off as serious horological efforts, caked in a layer of marketing BS and heavily advertised cum personality endorsements.

best, Horo

 

 

You can run, but you can't hide: we can just imagine your bridal party -

 

Cheers,

pplater.

OMG!  A Bollywood wedding!  Exactly what I've always wanted!

*giggling*
Daos

you need to match with a pair of WHITE shoes.  Do you know how would you look like?

Regards

Ling

 

Pairing with a pair of white wingtip should be good

Kong

... but not with the white strap. Give it a tan strap, or a black rubber one, and you have a perfect sports watch with white dial. Why should a white dial alone transform a watch into a ladies' timepiece?

Regards,
Marcus