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• PHOTOS : Omega’s White Side of the Moon

  By horologium on November 9, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Two years ago the Omega Speedmaster went to the ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ and last year, it went grey with a lunar dust theme. At Baselworld 2015 they launched their latest/ last ‘Side of’ variant the ‘White Side of… Read More ›

• PHOTOS : Panerai’s new Radiomir 1940s – PAM574, PAM575 and PAM620

  By horologium on November 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  At Watches & Wonders 2015 Panerai officially launched new versions of the popular 42mm Radiomir 1940s that came out two years ago, containing the new manual-wind Calibre P.1000, replacing the P.999. The new movement has a seconds at 9 o’clock,… Read More ›

• NEW : MB&F Legacy Machine Perpetual

  By horologium on November 4, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  With all things being equal we will hopefully be able to bring you live photos of the just-announced Legacy Machine Perpetual from MB&F in the nearish future but in the meantime, some quick facts on today’s announcement. The latest Legacy… Read More ›

• PHOTOS : IWC’s Portugieser Yacht Club – something old, something new

  By horologium on November 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  As most of you will know by now, 2015 is IWC’s year of the Portugieser. As you all know 2015 is IWC’s year of the Portugieser, with a new collection having been launched at SIHH 2015 to celebrate its 75th… Read More ›

• NEWS : Swiss watch exports post biggest quarterly decline since 2009

  By horologium on October 28, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Swiss watch exports fell as sales in Hong Kong and China experienced marked falls in the last quarter, reports the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry (FH). After drops in the May and July quarter reports there has been no… Read More ›

• NEW : Nomos neomatik 1st Edition

  By horologium on October 26, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Nomos Glashütte have announced the introduction of a new series of watches called the ‘neomatik 1st Edition’, all containing the in-house automatic Nomos Calibre DUW 3001 which made its inaugural appearance at Baselworld 2015 in the Minimatik and the 2015 Tangente… Read More ›

• PHOTOS : Girard-Perregaux 1966 Collection Enamel Dial LE

  By horologium on October 23, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Some of us are browsers. We enter a boutique, start at the entrance, and let our eyes glance over all (or almost all) of the watches. Our step falters. We linger here and there when something piques our interest, when we… Read More ›

• NEW : Montblanc 1858 Collection Pilots’ Watch

  By horologium on October 21, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  [NOTE – You may find that this post sounds familiar. Unfortunately I did not know at the time of its original posting that there was a worldwide embargo on the new collection of which these form a part until its… Read More ›

• NEWS : Swatch launches contactless payment watch

  By horologium on October 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  When I saw the tweet a couple of days ago from Swatch announcing their new ‘Bellamy’ range of watches which will double as a mobile form contactless form of payment, I was intrigued. Touted by some as Swatch’s foray into… Read More ›

• NEW : Tudor Heritage Black Bay ‘Black’

  By horologium on October 16, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  A long time ago in a watch cycle far away we wrote about the Tudor Heritage Black Bay and Pelagos watches, two very different pieces that have nonetheless both proven to be huge successes for the brand. To quickly recap,… Read More ›