Loupe 31 - Drawing Board

[rkovars]

The Drawing Board is one of the first sections I read in a new issue of the Loupe.

From issue 31 it looks like a new Concept will be released in 2024 with an SH21. Some of the hints:

Based on a model launched within the last 12 months.
Even more highly finished than the first Concept.

My guess is a 12 with a new thinner SH21.2 in it.

[jkbarnes]

My guess is a 12 with a new thinner SH21.2 in it.

That was my immediate thought, too.

[kev017]

What was the first Concept? Is there a link to what it looked like?

[tikkathree]

What was the first Concept? Is there a link to what it looked like?

A little test for you. Visit the Archive and do a model search for “Concept”

https://cwarchive.knack.com/cwarchive#home/

[tikkathree]

What was the first Concept? Is there a link to what it looked like?

The answer to question 1: it was an amazing innovation and sold out in hours, and......

The answer to question 2 lies in the response from m'learned colleague @Amor Vincit Omnia ^^^^

If you and @jkbarnes are right that's going to be something really quite special. I'd better sell a kidney so that I'm ready for it.

[Bahnstormer_vRS]

For ease of reference, here are a couple of pictures of mine from a fortnight ago.





Guy

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[Squalus]

I'm looking forward to hearing what will be the launch date for the new Concept. No doubt, it'll be stunning.

[Squalus]

My guess is a 12 with a new thinner SH21.2 in it.

That's also my assumption.

[nbg]

If the new Concept model is a Twelve in a 40mm case, with the new SH21 I think that I will buy one.

Neil

[missF]

If the new concept model is a 12 in a 40mm case with a new slimmer movement I think that I’m in big trouble next year

[Noush]

Old 'noodle wrist' needs it smaller!!

[MistaFroggyG]

It almost has to be the Twelve, right? What else came out in the last 12 months? The Atoll?

[Bmdraper]

I'm looking forward to hearing what will be the launch date for the new Concept. No doubt, it'll be stunning.

The best guess I can give is that it will be the 12th of the month. Which month? I don’t know, but we all have a 1/12 chance of being right.

[MistaFroggyG]

It’s too bad this will inevitably be an LE. Seems likely that the price will approach $5,000 and I’m going to need quite a bit of time to save up for that…

[rkovars]

It almost has to be the Twelve, right? What else came out in the last 12 months? The Atoll?

The archive is your friend here with the Timeline.

22 models released so far in 2023. This includes LEs of existing designs so I am not counting them.

C60 Shadow
The Twelve
Dune
C63 SH21
C1 Moonphase

But, you have to go back a little if they are counting from Nov going back 12.

The Bel Canto was released in November 2022. So that falls in the 12 months. I didn't pick this because I don't see how the Bel Canto would work. Maybe it would but I am not seeing it.