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NEW: Piaget Altiplano Limelight Stella Rose Gold
With each completion of a lunar year cycle watch brands bring out their animal-appropriate themed watches for the year to come. Piaget has been a part of this tradition and have an announced, for the incoming year of the Ox,… Read More ›
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NEW: Hautlence HL Sphere 02
One of the most enjoyable watches I had the opportunity to handle in 2019 was the Hautlence HL Sphere 01. As mentioned, it was the HL Kinetic table clock brought to wrist size, displaying hours in a spherical ‘jumping hour’… Read More ›
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INDUSTRY NEWS: UNESCO recognises mechanical watchmaking and art
The “craftsmanship of mechanical watchmaking and art mechanics” has been added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. In March 2019 Switzerland and France jointly submitted an application for… Read More ›
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NEW: Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Duoface Fagliano
The latest launch from Jaeger-LeCoultre may be a precursor to celebrating ninety years of the Reverso in 2021, but it is also a nod to an earlier model from this year, the in both collection family and colour. It is… Read More ›
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NEW: Laurent Ferrier Classic Origin Green
One of the most interesting aspects of going through the annual GPHG list of nominated watches is the models which have not yet been formally launched. In some cases, the launch dates are months after they appear on the GPHG… Read More ›
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NEW: BAUME Ocean Limited Edition
Today we have something new that continues in on the ocean/ sustainability theme that has been rippling through this year. It comes courtesy of Baume, the ‘offshoot’ brand that was integrated into a Baume & Mercier collection last May after… Read More ›
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NEW: A. Lange & Söhne Saxonia Thin Copper Black
We are almost at the year’s end, but the previously mentioned celebrations in Glashütte to mark 175 years since Ferdinand Adolph Lange established his watchmaking business there continues. On December 7, 2020, to celebrate thirty years since their brand’s rebirth,… Read More ›
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NEW: Corum Golden Bridge 40th Anniversary
The Golden Bridge needs no introduction. Corum is marking forty years of this revolutionary watch with its linear baguette movement developed and patented by Vincent Calabrese in 1977 (but purchased by Corum to use in their first Golden Bridge in… Read More ›
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NEW: Urwerk EMC TimeHunter ‘Stormtrooper’
It doesn’t feel like that long ago since we saw the original Urwerk EMC. The first EMC TimeHunter, which was based on the EMC, has morphed into the black TimeHunter Ceramic, the TimeHunter X-Ray, and now, the matching ‘light’ to… Read More ›
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NEWS: Breguet becomes patron of French National Navy Museum
In a very fitting partnership, Breguet has announced their new status as a patron of the Musée national de la Marine in Paris, part of which includes the creation of a new room when the museum re-opens, after a four… Read More ›
