I have been growing fond of rubber strap watches lately. Besides Bell & Ross and Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore, Perrelet Turbine emerges to be a front runner should I decide to get one, I think. Perrelet is a relatively young watch company setup in 2004, reviving the legacy of Abraham-Louis Perrelet, a Swiss watchmaker who invented a self-winding mechanism in 1770 for pocket watches. Perrelet is thus widely acknowledged as the inventor of the basic movement known as ‘automatic’ today but it is important to note that unlike Patek, Audemars, Vacheron or A. Lange & Söhne, this brand is not older than a century old. Nevertheless, the company still makes pretty respectable watches and they look awesome too,  don’t they? I am hooked up with this Turbine watch, which is priced at USD5,850 before discounts. I know it is pretty steep but like they say, ” aim for the stars and you might end up buying a Perrelet in no time”. *Wink*

Image is courtesy of Perrelet

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