This week is dedicated to oddities, to the watches you rarely hear about. The ones we've found for this week range from a rare Rolex with a quartz caliber Beta 21, to a Movado chronograph, with an unusual method of operation. You will also find a great Breitling Co-Pilot with a colorful yachting bezel, as well as a stunning Longines Conquest with an unusual power reserve complication. This is your Bring A Loupe for February 3, 2017.

A more maximalist take on the all-time classic.

It's that time of year: awards season. Last month we saw the Ryan Gosling (swoon) win at the Golden Globes wearing a vintage Rolex, and now Rolex is sponsoring the Oscars!

The changes in leadership at the Richemont Group continue. Richemont has announced that the new global CEO for Piaget will be its international managing director of sales and marketing, Chabi Nouri, who joined the group in 1998 as product manager for Cartier. This is of course an important step for Piaget, but it's also an historic occasion for Richemont as a whole: Nouri is the first woman to step into the global CEO position for one of the group's watch and jewelry brands. Women in high-level management positions in the luxury watch industry remain a relative rarity, and it's nice to see some progress (finally) being made.

The Bulgari Roma in the incarnation you see here is a very cool watch in itself: a clear, strong, simple design with all the architectural precision you'd associate with a Bulgari Roma watch. You might recognize the general design, but what you might not know is that the first Bulgari Roma watch came out all the way back in 1975, at an extremely interesting period in the history of modern watchmaking. The original Roma is of the same design generation that gave us the Royal Oak and the Nautilus, and like those two watches, it wasn't an instant success. Acceptance and enthusiasm took time to evolve, and the more so because the original Roma wasn't even intended to be a commercial piece. But I think you can make a case for the Roma as the starting point of a design evolution that is in its own way just as iconic as the Royal Oak or the Nautilus, and one whose enduring presence is a sign of its enduring strength as a design.

Vacheron Constantin has appointed Louis Ferla as its new CEO, just three days after news broke of major executive shake-ups at four Richemont brands. Ferla will be taking over from outgoing CEO Juan-Carlos Torres effective April 1, when Torres assumes the position of the company’s new non-executive president.

One of the things that makes vintage watches potentially so much more interesting than comparable new watches, is that they so often come with a story. In this case, the watch in question is a Tudor Submariner reference 7928 that was issued to a U.S. Navy SEAL team member as a duty watch during his training in the notoriously brutal BUD/S training course (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEALS).

Is this minimalist marvel the most interesting time-only watch on Earth?

Learn from Reardon's decades of experience at watch brands and in the auction world, getting the inside scoop on this often-opaque industry.

We are starting February off with a bang to get you through the back-end of winter. We have a diverse selection of watches, as usual, with brands like Rolex, Omega, Juvenia, Longines, and Wittnauer all represented, and styles ranging from your cool rough-and-tumble tool watches to classic gold watches with bright stone dials (and full gold bracelets). Read on to see the full selection.

There are a lot of new Laureato models, so let’s take a look at the entire line-up in descending order (of both size and price).

Last year, the Range Rover Special Edition from Zenith really stood out, since it was the very first to use a black ceramicised aluminum case. Its modern look and construction presented an interesting take on the famous El Primero, and only three months later the two El Primero 36,000 vph with panda dials were added to Zenith's main line-up, again using those black aluminum cases. Those new chronographs offered the opportunity to look back on the Range Rover Special Edition with a bit more context, and to examine once again the result of this cross-industry partnership.

Today in New York, amidst an unexpected but fitting flurry of snow, Glashütte Original debuted a brand new limited edition series of chronographs, the Iconic Sixties Square. The watch comes in five flavors, each with a squared-off cushion case and a bright dial. These are very much in line with what the Sixties collection has been doing for years, but all while offering something a little bit different and new. Here's a first look at the new limited editions, complete with hands-on photos and pricing.

The ATUM Pure is nothing new from Moritz Grossmann. It's been the core/entry-level offering from the Glashütte-based manufacture for quite a while now and it comes in a number of variations (including this controversial edition with a mesh dial). The latest version though is the ATUM Pure High Art, which takes the basic ATUM Pure and adds a highly-decorated movement under the hood.

According to reports by Bloomberg and Reuters, four Richemont brand CEOs will be replaced over the coming months. This isn't the first big Richemont executive news to drop recently, with the conglomerate eliminating the group CEO position and elevating multiple brand CEOs to board positions back in November. The latest changes will effect Dunhill, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Piaget, and Vacheron Constantin.

Last week we showed you our top picks for the best everyday watches from the 2017 Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH). Sure, there was some debate over what exactly qualifies as "everyday," but the spread of watches included both the simple and the complicated, as well as a mix of styles. Today we've got another round-up for you – this time of our favorite ladies' watches from the show. And, before anyone asks, no, the watches selected aren't all explicitly made for women or marketed to them, but that shouldn't stop anyone in 2017. Without further ado, let's get into it.

Tom Ford has just announced that it will be launching Tom Ford Timepieces in collaboration with the American firm Bedrock Manufacturing Company. If that names sounds familiar to you, it's because Bedrock is the Detroit-based parent company of Shinola (as well as Filson). Details are limited, but here's what we know right now.

When I say "perpetual calendar," this probably isn't what comes to mind. You're likely imagining something like the ceramic Royal Oak Perpetual calendar or the more traditional Patrimony Perpetual. But this little desk-top device of the same name is a manual timekeeper that the user sets each morning and then references throughout the day. It's called a perpetual calendar because, in theory, it will work forever. The Perpetuum Calendar comes to us from 3D-printed design firm OTHR and Spanish designers Studio Yonoh and it's about as cool a balance spring–free perpetual calendar as you'll find anywhere.