Six Annual Calendar Watches to Start the New Year

The Annual Calendar is often thought of as the less glamorous sibling to the more complicated perpetual calendar If these six releases from 2018 are any indication, the annual calendar will be in strong standing moving forward and should attract former naysayers and longtime admirers alike Placed in the middle ground between the common date and the potent - and pricey - perpetual calendar, the annual calendar seemed to promise new terrain for enthusiasts, one that would provide desired horological "Cred" without breaking the bank.

In the past, this has been the home for a variety of models including classically designed chronographs, retrograde styles, perpetual calendars, and moon-phase watches, but last year was the first time an annual calendar had been added The new model is the first annual calendar watch in the Fifty Fathoms range and features the new Caliber 6054-P with a 72-hour power reserve In the brand's annual calendar, which was first released in 2012 and has seen a variety of updates since, the calendar functionality is displayed without any numerals in a series of dots and rings.

Following that motif directly was the Big Pilot's Watch Annual Calendar Edition "150 Years", which balanced IWC's cherished pilot watch styling with the addition of an annual calendar complication to balance the dial's appearance. . Source