IN REMEMBRANCE:
CHARLES AGNOFF,
ORBITA FOUNDER
CHARLES AGNOFF Charles (Chuck) Agnoff passed away on March 29, 2016
in Boca Raton, Florida with his beloved wife of 60 years Evelyn, by his side.
He was born October 13, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, to Syd and Sol Agnoff.
My own relationship with Chuck started in the mid 1990s as I began to
cover his recently launched line of Swiss watches. Well ahead of the curve,
Chuck saw the potential of a top quality pilot’s type and worked with Ernst
Benz to bring his vision to life. Moving on to his next project, Chuck proved
yet again his business acumen had not faded. Recognizing that the return
of the mechanical watch would create a demand for an automatic watch
winder, Orbita Winders were born and Orbita Corp became the leading
manufacturer in the category.
Through the years I counted on his honest counsel fairly frequently and
came to appreciate his direct and candid opinions that he continued to offer
even after his formal retirement.
Chuck’s business ventures turned him and Evelyn into world travelers,
with friends and colleagues spanning the globe. In addition to his contagious
zest for life, he was an avid boater, storyteller and inventor. Chuck is survived
by his wife Evelyn, and his children, Susan Agnoff, Steve and (Mindy) Agnoff,
Karen and (Mark) Lampkin as well as four grandchildren.
HUBLOT BIG BANG CELEBRATES
ART OF TATTOOING
During London’s Fashion Week, held
in February, Hublot announced a new
groundbreaking partnership with
Maxime Buchi, founder of the legendary Sang Bleu London tattoo studio. The
result of this successful collaboration is
the new Big Bang Sang Bleu evokes the
harmonious and proportional relationships derived from Leonard de Vinci’s
Vitruvian Man and incorporates the geometric shapes that characterize Maxime
Buchi’s tattoo designs.
This brand-new, totally redesigned Big
Bang, features a three-dimensional bezel
that sees its roundness shaped into a
hexagon. The matte black dial boasts
a wide black satin finish circular flange
stamped with the hours, the numerals
for which were created by Maxime’s typeface-design agency SwissTypefaces SARL. As for the seconds counter, it appears discreetly on the metal
sculpture that dresses the dial. No hand appears on the dial. Instead,
the time is displayed through the superposition of three rhodium-plated
octagonal-shaped discs. The largest disc indicates the hours, while the
small one marks the minutes. To make it easier to tell the time, one of the
tips of the hours and minutes octagons is in white Superluminova. A s for
the seconds, these tick by in the center on a black disc stamped with the
H of Hublot and the stylized hourglass of Sang Bleu.
Available in a series of 200 pieces, the titanium Big Bang Sang Bleu
beats to the rhythm of the Unico manufacture movement, which has been
entirely remodeled without a chronograph and redesigned in order to tell
the time through three discs. The oscillating weight silhouette features the
triangular codes of the Sang Bleu logo.
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