Mühle Glashütte Dips into Bronze with a New Yacht-Timer

In the past five years, bronze has become more prevalent than ever in the watch industry It’s come to the point where any brand looking to change things up turns to the centuries-old material for inspiration That’s not a bad thing.

Bronze provides an intimate charisma, through the development of patina, that other case materials lack Additionally, bronze timepieces are inherently photogenic and add a layer of increased virility that softer metals don’t always have Announced earlier this week, Mühle Glashütte, a favorite brand of teutophile watch collectors everywhere, has introduced a never-before-seen Yacht-Timer constructed from aluminium bronze Blue dominates the textile strap, dial, and bidirectional bezel before departing onto the bronze tone that forms the entirety of the case (sans the caseback, formed from stainless steel with a transparent crystal).

The 44 mm timepiece maintains classic Mühle elements including blocky hands; the arrow-style indexes (known as orientation triangles) at 3, . Source