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• LONGINES : Heritage Military Watch

  By horologium on June 4, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Although they are not Longines’ biggest sellers, if there’s one thing that they can be counted on, it is that the brand will come up with some good looking vintage reissue models for their Heritage Collection. This year, it comes… Read More ›

• RADO : Captain Cook MkIII

  By horologium on May 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Last year Rado released modern versions of a vintage piece, called the Hyperchrome Captain Cook. Its success has lead to two more variant reissues, the Captain Cook MkII and MkIII. The latter of these, inspired by a 1962 piece, is… Read More ›

• URWERK UR-210 Black Platinum

  By horologium on May 28, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  This year URWERK presented a black platinum edition (not its first black platinum piece) of its UR-210, a timepiece famed for two things – its combination of patented revolving satellite complication with wandering hour and three-dimensional retrograde minute hand, and… Read More ›

• HYT : H²O Black and Blue Limited Editions

  By horologium on May 23, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  In 2012 when HYT unveiled its original hydro-mechanical watch it was one of the year’s headliners, both for its incredibly modern good looks, and for its innovation. In the years since then, they have proven themselves as survivors in a… Read More ›

• IWC: Portugieser Hand-Wound Eight Days ‘150 Years’

  By horologium on May 21, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  This year IWC Schaffhausen announced a number of special Portugieser watches as part of its 150th birthday Jubilee collection : the Portugieser Constant-Force Tourbillon Edition ‘150 Years’, Portugieser Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon Edition ‘150 Years’, Portugieser Perpetual Calendar Edition “150 Years”a… Read More ›

• DEWITT : Academia Endless Drive

  By horologium on May 17, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Today, following on from our last post about one of the most interesting watches we’ve seen so far this year, we are looking at another timepiece that we have found eye-catching, although it is for reasons of design, and how… Read More ›

• RESSENCE : Type 2 e-Crown® Concept

  By horologium on May 14, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the most intriguing new watches I’ve come across so far this year has been the Ressence Type 2 e-Crown Concept. Self-evidently, ‘e-Crown®’ refers to ‘electronic crown’, a new time setting technology developed by Ressence that stretches the brand’s… Read More ›

• MONTBLANC : 1858 Geosphere

  By horologium on May 10, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Montblanc’s releases during 2018 are focused into three lines: the 1858 collection, the TimeWalker collection, and the Star Legacy collection. Today, we are looking at the first of these. As well, this year marks the 160th birthday of the ‘Minerva’… Read More ›

• PARMIGIANI : Revival of the Kalpa

  By horologium on May 8, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The tonneau-cased Kalpa with its teardrop lugs and Delta-shaped hands is perhaps the case design most characteristically recognised as being from Parmigiani Fleurier. It is also of great sentimental value to Michel Parmigiani; in 1998, the Kalpa was where his… Read More ›

• DE BETHUNE : DB28 Steel Wheels

  By horologium on May 4, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  As mentioned in a post earlier this year, 2018 is a year of change for De Bethune, both of management, and of focus. The markers of this change, horologically, were the Titan Hawk v2 covered in that post, and the… Read More ›