Monday, August 22, 2016

Hublot Classic Fusion Power Reserve Titanium Watch

Hublot Classic Fusion Power Reserve Titanium runs on the HUB1601 manually wound movement. The impressively thin 4.4mm thick movement affords the watch its slim case, and the sapphire case back displays a suitably cool-looking movement to gaze at. Really, the movement does what it says. The convenience of an 8-day power reserve is great, and a power reserve indicator easily lets you know when it's time to wind up the watch a little bit. A simple, slim, and lightweight but masculine Hublot watch that’s a little less “in your face” than the Big Bang, the Hublot Classic Fusion Power Reserve Titanium still has strong brand DNA. More Hublot Classic Fusion clone watches.

Getting on to the watch itself, the 45mm-wide case would usually be on the upper end of a desired size for me, but given its slimness, I actually wouldn’t change it one bit. The polished titanium case is refined by any standard, let alone for a brand that tends to go for louder design choices like Hublot. The H-screws add a masculine edge to it, and though this is a matter of taste, I personally love that they are not all evenly aligned.

The dial itself is black sunray satin-finished, with rhodium-plated appliques and hands. It’s handsome enough, but I have to admit that legibility was less than ideal when it was bright out. The power reserve indicator at 10 o’clock, a seconds subdial at 6 o’clock, and a date window at 3 o’clock throw symmetry out the window. But if you ask me, dial symmetry for the sake of dial symmetry is pointless. I like a seconds subdial, and the power reserve indicator is a huge part of why you get this piece. I’m 50/50 on date windows, but on a watch with an 8-day power reserve that I never had to reset, I have to say I liked having it.

The strap is one of my favorite parts of this Hublot Classic Fusion Power Reserve Titanium watch. It’s a black rubber and alligator strap, referred to as the “gummy strap.” With the alligator leather sewn into the the rubber lining, it's really comfortable and nice-looking. I’ll take this opportunity to mention again that the name “Classic Fusion” refers to the fusion of materials, so this strap goes hand in hand with the theme here. It is easy to adjust the size, and that “H” Hublot logo at the buckle is a nice touch that I enjoyed. Overall, I applaud Hublot for the attention to the detail in the strap as well as the overall execution. I do want to point out one issue here that was a problem for me. I tend to wear my watches somewhat close to the wrist, and the crown is quite sharp around the edges - and in a couple of instances it jabbed my wrist which, while not exactly painful, wasn’t a great feeling. Minor complaint, overall, but one worth mentioning.

Panerai Luminor 1950 10 Days GMT blue dial

A slender 2mm differentiates Panerai Luminor 1950 3 Days GMT Automatic (PAM 688) from the Luminor 1950 10 Days GMT Automatic (PAM 689). To attribute this slight difference to the threefold increase in power reserve between the former and the latter, however, would be mistaken. The P.9001 in-house calibre that powers the three-day model shares the same 13¾ - line diameter as the P.2003 movement that provides 240 hours of power reserve from three mainspring barrels. The latter movement is just 0.1mm thicker than the former (7.9mm for the P.9001 against 8.0mm for the P.2003). Get popular replica Panerai Luminor watches, copy watches, look alike watches at Copywatchalike.is, all watches are all in excellent quality with affordable price.

Both have a stainless-steel case with the trademark lever-activated crown lock at 3 o’clock, a date indication, a central GMT hand and the familiar sandwich construction on the dial with generous apertures to show off the beige SuperLuminova beneath the hour markers and oversized Arabic numerals at the quarters. The 10-day model has a linear power reserve indicator above the 6 o’clock position (on the three-day model the power reserve indicator can be seen on the movement side through a transparent sapphire crystal caseback) and an additional am/pm indicator hand on the same subsidiary counter as the small seconds at 9 o’clock.

The same P.2003 calibre is used in the Radiomir 1940 10 Days GMT model in red gold, which has 45mm diameter case in Panerai’s house blend of gold, which contains a few per cent of platinum (for additional protection against oxidation), giving the polished case its distinctive, rich red tone.