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• NEW: Louis Erard X Konstantin Chaykin “Time Eater”

  By horologium on April 26, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Perhaps one of the most unexpected collaborative successes of recent times in watches has been the series that Louis Erard and CEO Manuel Emch with a diverse range of watch brands and watch makers, including Vianney Halter and Alain Silberstein…. Read More ›

• HAUTLENCE: Vagabonde X Black Badger

  By horologium on April 25, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Black Badger puts his well-known lumed stamp on the Vagabonde with this new collaboration with Hautlence. The new Vagabonde X Black Badger is a riff on the 2022 and its pinball ‘wrist piece’. A bit of high profile history but… Read More ›

• ULYSSE NARDIN: Freak ONE

  By horologium on April 23, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  It was centre stage in an engaging and fun, with an outsized ‘model’ and mirror display at their booth which allowed people to position themselves ‘within’ a movement and see themselves reflected above in it, but at Watches & Wonders… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: A. Lange & Söhne Odysseus Chronograph

  By horologium on April 21, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  In 2019 A. Lange & Söhne launched their first (manually-wound) luxury sports watch called the ODYSSEUS, which didn’t just introduce bracelets to a brand not known for them, but also brought a production stainless steel watch into the brand. Now,… Read More ›

• HANDS-ON: Angelus x Massena LAB Medical Chronograph Limited Edition

  By horologium on April 19, 2023 • ( 1 )

  

  The Angelus x Massena LAB Medical Chronograph (part of the new La Fabrique collection) is, as they say, a ‘collectors’ watch’. What do I mean by that? Well it’s a nod back to some 1960s medically-oriented watches for which the… Read More ›

• HANDS-ON: URWERK UR-102 “Reloaded”

  By horologium on April 16, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  On the very rare occasion when an original UR-102 has come up at auction, it has generated a great deal of interest because of their scarcity. As such, the launch of an updated version for 2023 was always going to… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: Oris ProPilot X Kermit Edition

  By horologium on April 14, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  There was no missing the star of the Oris show in Geneva, with Kermit taking pride of place for the unexpected Oris and Kermit ‘partnership’, as it were. Why Kermit? Well Oris tells us that it’s in part because of… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: IWC Ingenieur Automatic 40

  By horologium on April 11, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  IWC is revisiting Gérald Genta’s eternal Ingenieur this year, with four new models of the Automatic 40 launched in Geneva. This latest generation of ‘Inges’ takes inspiration from Gérald Genta’s Ingenieur SL of 1976, which had a screw-on bezel with… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: Cartier Santos Dumont Squelette

  By horologium on April 9, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the highlights from Cartier at Watches & Wonders 2023 was their introduction of a new specially developed automatic Calibre 9629 MC skeleton (squelette) movement, used for a new Santos Dumont. Measuring 31.4mm x 43.5mm with a thickness of… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Chronograph

  By horologium on April 7, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  This year’s Watches & Wonders 2023 was all about the Reverso for Jaeger Le Coultre, with a number of Tribute models being a particular highlight. Of these, one is the new Reverso Tribute Chronograph, a successor to a 1990s model…. Read More ›