> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.itsabouttime.email/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Titanium Is Always Cool, Especially On A Yema, And New Watches From FC, Stowa, MeisterSinger And VC - URL: https://www.itsabouttime.email/titanium-is-always-cool-especially-on-a-yema-and-new-watches-from-fc-stowa-meistersinger-and-vc/ - Published: 2026-09-25T13:21:53.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-25T13:21:53.000Z - Author: Vuk Radic - Tags: Daily newsletter Hey friends, welcome back to It’s About Time. A quick one today, I'm off to a wedding. Dusted off the old Speedmaster and it's shocking how nice of a watch that is. I need to wear it more. In case you just got one of these emails and don't know where I've been for the past month, [you can read the whole story here](https://www.itsabouttime.email/where-did-its-about-time-disappear/). --- ****Help me RUN It's About Time** I write this newsletter on my own, and paid subscribers are what keep it running. If you'd like to support it, you'll also get The Caseback, a weekend magazine with longer writing, every Sunday. ****The paid subscription is discounted for just a few more days, so get it now.** [Support IAT ](https://www.itsabouttime.email/annual-its-about-time-is-back-discount) --- ## 👂What’s new ### 1/ Yema Releases Their First Navygraf in Titanium, With Two Nice Meteorite Dials ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/Yema-Navygraf-Meteorite-CMM-10-1-1.jpg) The Navygraf is Yema's working diver, the watch it builds with the French Navy whenever the two collaborate. Lately it has also become the watch that Yema uses to experiment with materials: a pearl dial in 2025, then forged carbon on the Barracuda edition this summer. We now have the Navygraf Titanium Meteorite CMM.10\. Sure the meteorite dial is nice, but this is also their first Navygraf in titanium. In fact, I think this might be only their second modern Yema in titanium. They need more of those. The case is 39mm wide and 11mm thick, not just sensible numbers for a diver, but kind of impressive for a diver with 300 meters of water resistance. In titanium it's an even better watch. You have vertical brushing across the top and flanks, with polished bevels along the edges to break up the surfaces. The dial is cut from Muonionalusta, the iron meteorite behind most of the space rock in watchmaking, and tinted either black or green. You get the crosshatched Widmanstätten pattern, which forms as iron cools over millions of years inside an asteroid, and a slab of metal roughly 4.5 billion years old. Tinting it gives it a very cool look. The markers and hands, as well as the lume, remain unchanged. Inside is Yema's in-house Manufacture Morteau calibre CMM.10, beating at 4Hz with a 70-hour power reserve. Yema rates it at -3/+5 seconds per day, which falls within chronometer tolerances, and you can see the skeletonised rotor and gold-toned balance through the exhibition caseback. The watch comes on a matching titanium bracelet. The Yema Navygraf Titanium Meteorite CMM.10 is limited to 150 pieces and it's priced at €2,900 (£2,620). See [more photos here](https://www.itsabouttime.email/yema-releases-their-first-navygraf-in-titanium-with-two-nice-meteorite-dials/) and the watches [on the Yema website](https://yema.com/products/yema-navygraf-meteorite-cmm-10-limited-edition-22-26-10-64-tnl-m?ref=itsabouttime.email). ### 2/ Frederique Constant Enlists The Highlife and Classics for a French Foreign Legion Collab ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/Frederique-Constant-x-French-Foreign-Legion-1-1.jpg) Well, this is a new one for me. We've seen plenty of watch brands partner up with military divisions of various exclusivity and in varied geographic locations. What I haven't seen before is a watch brand partnering with the French Foreign Legion, the French Army branch that has recruited from abroad since 1831\. And that's what Frederique Constant just did. Interesting. The collaboration is based on two watches, the sporty Highlife Automatic and the dressier Classics Index Small Seconds. The Highlife is 39mm wide and 10.34mm thick in steel, brushed and polished, topped with a convex sapphire crystal, with 100 meters of water resistance. Those are some really nice numbers. The screwed caseback is engraved with the Legion insignia and an individual edition number. The Classics matches the 39mm width but grows to 11.65mm thick, fully polished, with 50 meters of water resistance and an engraved threaded caseback. The Highlife dial is sandblasted golden sand colored with no hour markers at all, just a black minutes and seconds track at the edge and the Legion's seven-flame grenade recessed at 6 o'clock. I like it a lot. You get polished hands with white lume, and a framed date at 3 o'clock. The Classics goes with grained charcoal, a beige-and-red minute track, applied lumed markers and the grenade again inside the small seconds subdial. Handsome, and easy to forget. The Highlife uses the FC-303, built on the La Joux-Perret G100, beating at 4Hz with 68 hours of power reserve. It comes with a brown croc-pattern leather strap, a steel bracelet and a black rubber strap, all quick-release. The Classics uses the FC-530, a Sellita SW260-1 base beating at 4Hz with 38 hours of reserve, on a five-link steel bracelet with a spare brown leather strap. Both come in a wooden box with a detachable embroidered patch, in case you'd like to wear the collaboration on your jacket too. The Frederique Constant Highlife Automatic x French Foreign Legion is priced at €1,995 and the Classics Index Small Seconds Automatic x French Foreign Legion at €1,595, each limited to 888 pieces, a nod to the Legion's 88-step marching pace and its eight combat regiments. Part of the proceeds goes to the Legion's mutual aid association for former Legionnaires and their families. See [more photos here](https://www.itsabouttime.email/frederique-constant-enlists-the-highlife-and-classics-for-a-french-foreign-legion-collab/) and the watches on the Frederique Constant website [here](https://frederiqueconstant.com/watches/collection/men/men%5Fclassics/men%5Fclassics%5Findex-small-seconds-automatic/fc-530gs3b6b/?v=77e0cc5ce1c2&ref=itsabouttime.email) and [here](https://frederiqueconstant.com/watches/collection/highlife/highlife%5Fautomatic/fc-303lbr3nh26/?v=77e0cc5ce1c2&ref=itsabouttime.email). ### 3/ Stowa Starts Its Centenary Countdown With a 99-Piece Flieger Classic 40 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/flight-to-100-1-1.jpg) Stowa turns 100 next year, and it's warming up for the celebration this year with a limited Flieger Classic 40 built for its 99th year, limited to 99 pieces. The Flieger Classic is Stowa's take on the Beobachtungsuhr Typ A pilot watches it made for the Luftwaffe in the 1940s. This edition doesn't reinvent anything. It strips the watch back to the original's bare dial and engraves the rotor, a subdued way to mark an anniversary. The stainless steel case measures 40mm wide, 10.2mm thick, with a significant 48.6mm lug-to-lug, and is fully brushed, with a flat sapphire crystal on top and the "FL" engraving on the case. Water resistance is 50 meters, which is fine for a pilot watch since it's best to not dip into large bodies of water while flying. The black dial uses the Model A layout: large Arabic numerals, a triangle with two dots at 12, and nothing else. This is the Flieger at its best. The hands are nickel-plated brass with a matte finish. Super-LumiNova C3 fills the numerals and hands. Inside is the Sellita SW 200 in basic grade, an automatic beating at 4Hz, with a power reserve of around 38 hours. It's reliable and easy to service anywhere. The rotor is engraved with: "Flight to 100 | Limited Series | 1 out of 99." Strap options are a riveted pilot leather strap in brown or black, or a satin-finished steel bracelet, all at 20mm lug width. The Stowa Flieger Classic 40 Flight to 100 is limited to 99 pieces and priced at €990 on leather or €1,200 on the bracelet. See [more photos here](https://www.itsabouttime.email/stowa-starts-its-centenary-countdown-with-a-99-piece-flieger-classic-40/) and the watches [on the Stowa website](https://www.stowa.de/flieger-classic-40-flight-to-100?ref=itsabouttime.email). ### 4/ MeisterSinger Paints Its 2026 Dutch Edition in Delft Blue and Tulips ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/MeisterSinger_ED-NL26_1-1.jpg) I've noted several times that the Netherlands has a very, very interesting watch scene. They do stuff other's just aren't doing. Christiaan van der Klaauw is way beyond anyone else when it comes to planetariums on watches, the Grönefeld are the peak of high horology, De Rijke is just the most fun brand in the industry and Holthinrichs is pushing material science to the very edges. Then, we have MeisterSinger, the crazy folks that just insist that a single hand is the best way to tell time. And they're making it work. Since 2004, they've been releasing a special edition dedicated to the Netherlands. This years' just might be my favorite one, rendered in delft blue with a wonderful tulip lattice motif. The NL Edition Tulip uses MeisterSinger's 03 case in stainless steel, 43mm wide and 11.5mm thick, with a sapphire crystal on top. The crown sits on the left side, as it has on every Dutch edition. Around back, a sapphire caseback held by four screws features a printed tulip. Water resistance is 50 meters. The dial has two layers. The bottom one has a medium-blue sunburst finish meant to evoke Delft Blue ceramics, and on top sits a machine-cut white layer with an ornamental tulip pattern that lets the blue show through. Double-digit hour numerals sit on the inner ring, a five-minute scale runs around the edge, and a single blued needle hand points out the time. Inside is the Sellita SW200, automatic and modified for the single-hand display, beating at 4Hz with a 38-hour power reserve. It's a dependable workhorse and nothing more. The strap is blue calf leather with crocodile embossing and a pin buckle. The MeisterSinger NL Edition Tulip is limited to 66 pieces and available now at €2,590 including VAT. See more [on the MeisterSinger website](https://meistersinger.com/en/product/nl-edition-26/?ref=itsabouttime.email). ### 5/ Vacheron Constantin Celebrates 30 Years Of Overseas With An Ultra Thin Perpetual Calendar ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/VC-Perpetual-Calendar-Ultra-Thin-1-1.jpg) The Overseas turns 30 this year, and Vacheron Constantin really knows how to celebrate. To mark the occasion, they'r releasing a special anniversary edition of the Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin, one of their most impressive watches. This edition changes nothing mechanically. It adds a new azure dial, and that turns out to be enough. The white gold case measures 41.5mm wide and an incredible 8.1mm thick, with the iconic tonneau shape and six-notched bezel sitting on a round base. Surfaces alternate between brushed and polished bevels, there's sapphire crystals front and back, and a soft-iron inner case for antimagnetic protection. The one compromise they had to make is the crown. Where standard Overseas models get a screw-down crown and 150 meters of water resistance, the QP has a push-pull crown and 50 meters water resistance. And while not a lot of people are swimming in a CHF 120,000 perpetual calendar, it does stretch the definition of sports watch. The dial is the biggest change for this watch. It's lacquered with a sunburst, with a lighter and softer color than the 2016 blue. Three recessed, snailed sub-dials keep the layout symmetrical: a 48-month counter at 12 o'clock with leap years in light blue, date at three, day at nine. The same light blue shows up in the Arabic numerals on the minute track, which ties everything together. At six, a white gold moon sits against an engraved starry sky. The applied white gold indices and hands are filled with Super-LumiNova that glows blue. Inside is the in-house calibre 1120 QP/1, an automatic just 4.05mm thick with 276 components, beating at 2.75Hz with 40 hours of power reserve. It carries the Hallmark of Geneva, and the solid 22k gold rotor is engraved with a compass rose. That 40 hour power reserve is a bit unnerving, because if you let a perpetual calendar stop, you'll be in a world of hurt resetting. The watch comes on an integrated white gold bracelet with tapering half-Maltese-cross links with 2mm of micro-adjustment per side in the clasp. The quick-change system lets you swap to the included white rubber or denim blue rubber straps, both fitted with a white gold pin buckle. The Vacheron Constantin Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin 30th Anniversary, reference 4300V/220G-H119, is limited to 200 pieces and it's priced at CHF 120,000\. See [more photos here](https://www.itsabouttime.email/vacheron-constantin-celebrates-30-years-of-overseas-with-an-ultra-thin-perpetual-calendar/) and the watch [on the Vacheron Constantin website](https://www.vacheron-constantin.com/ww/en/collections/overseas/4300v-220g-h119.html?ref=itsabouttime.email). --- ****Help me RUN It's About Time** I write this newsletter on my own, and paid subscribers are what keep it running. 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Daly offers a sympathetic portrait of Duncan’s spiralling life, while opening a window onto a bizarre world where the most vulnerable exploit each other—[and sometimes even form bonds](https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/22/a-tale-of-two-trap-houses-being-cuckooed-ruined-my-friends-life-but-did-it-then-help-save-him?ref=itsabouttime.email). - Audiophiles are sometimes described in terms reserved for cults; a 1956 New Yorker story, referenced in Colin Vanderburg’s exceptional tour of extreme listening, refers to “a remarkably articulate group of zealots” and “an almost mystical reverence for sound.” Vanderburg travels among the believers, tracing the decades-long promise of “consumer audio innovations” to their technological apex: the New York International Audio Show, where audiophiles sample six-figure sound systems in pursuit of [a signal as pure as the world they already inhabit](https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/essays/heavens-melodic-strains?ref=itsabouttime.email). - A shattered grin, a wornout crown, a discolored incisor. How do our broken pieces define us? For The American Scholar, Joshua Bodwell offers a brief autobiography in dental work, examining the ways in which a broken tooth and a handful of interventions shaped his self-perception over decades. He also chews over (sorry) a select literary history of teeth, from Chaucer to Raymond Carver, and seems to ask virtually everyone in his life about their own smiles. His essay is an engaging study of imperfection, [of a type many folks live with but might easily hide](https://theamericanscholar.org/my-two-front-teeth/?ref=itsabouttime.email). --- 👀Watch this Never change, WhistlinDiesel. --- Thanks for reading Vuk P.S. If you have any questions, suggestions, gripes or anything else, just reply to this email. It comes straight to me and I try responding to everyone.