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But when the once-in-a-lifetime link opportunity to acquire Urban Jurgensen – a company he began working with in the mid-1990s, during the early years of his career – landed at his feet, he couldn't say no. After a few weeks of rumors and social media murmurs, the news broke in late November 2021 that Voutilainen had led a link group of investors to acquire link Urban Jurgensen from its erstwhile Danish ownership group and subsequently installed himself as the new CEO.

And, to embody this goal, link the link pared-down dial id devoid of counters for totalizing the minutes! Two tapered central hands, link one red, the other white, replace these counters by hovering over a flange adorned with two separate scales.

So many brands are new or have very little history, says link Tornare. "They would dream to have what we have in our past. It's a richness. Many brands in the watch industry, link when they have history, they tend to repeat the link past. They tend to lose a bit of creativity, innovation, and forget that they are selling watches in the 21st century. That's something that I wanted to correct at Zenith when I joined."

It was so good. link The Octo Finissimo design is already kind of divisive – it very much has its own character and there is nothing in the least generic about link it, which link is part of the charm. But it does have a spare, rectilinear, post-modern feel in terms of its architecture which may or may not fit an individual's personal style or taste and it certainly was never meant to be a mass-appeal watch.

Caliber: 82835Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds, date, moon link phase for both hemispheres, and an indication link of next high and low tidePower Reserve: 60 hoursWinding: AutomaticFrequency: 28,800 vphJewels: link 22

In Watch of the link Week, we invite HODINKEE staffers and friends to link explain why they love a certain piece. This week's columnist is Allen Farmelo, an upstate New York watch writer, occasional link HODINKEE contributor, frequent motorcyclist, and the founder and editor in chief of Beyond The Dial.

Clients come to Ferrell for specificity and detail, sometimes giving him as little as a grainy old photo or the imprint of a watch seen in some past memory. And Ferrell? Well, he revels link in it. With a link degree in military history, an MA in political science (including all the research that went with it), and extensive experience in imagery analysis, if you link need to find a needle in a vintage watch haystack, he's likely your man, and (hint, hint) he's currently working on a book.