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• WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: Chronoswiss Delphis Oracle

  By horologium on April 5, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Chronoswiss’ Delphis model is one that I haven’t thought about for a long time. At one point this design, with three forms of display in a single timepiece – digital hour, retrograde minutes, and analogue seconds, was ‘the’ dress watch… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: Tudor Black Bay GMT

  By horologium on April 4, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Tudor has introduced light-dialled version of its Black Bay GMT – the Ref. 79830RB. It is ‘light’ not ‘white’, because the curved dial is opaline, with a matte white-grey silvery finish applied to the dial. It joins its black dial… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: Grand Seiko Masterpiece Collection SBGZ009 Spring Drive Limited Edition

  By horologium on April 2, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Grand Seiko’s Masterpiece Collection is in a league of its own within the Seiko ecosystem, and this new SBZ009 Spring Drive Limited Edition is a hand-engraved timepiece inspired, as many Grand Seikos are, by the passing seasons of forests and… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Retrograde Day-Date

  By horologium on March 30, 2023 • ( 1 )

  

  Retrogrades are your friend. They’re my friend, too. Which is just as well, because Vacheron Constantin are going back and giving this alternative time display, some time in the sunlight. Meet the new Patrimony Retrograde Day-Date (aka Reference 4000U/000P-H003), which… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: Chopard Alpine Eagle 41 XPS

  By horologium on March 29, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Chopard’s Alpine Eagle continues to cement its place in the modern Chopard pantheon and the luxury sports watch segment, with L.U.C. calibres inside. Now, joining the collection family is not a complication but an ultra-thin model (8mm thick) that is… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: Panerai Radiomir “8 Giorni”

  By horologium on March 28, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s the year of the Radiomir for Panerai at Watches & Wonders 2023, with six new models to that collection family, ranging from “8 Giorni” to an annual calendar. No big surprise but my favourite, and the subject of this… Read More ›

• NEW: Girard-Perregaux Laureato Green Ceramic Aston Martin Edition

  By horologium on March 25, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  You may recall the last time we mentioned one of the results of the partnership between Girard-Perregaux and Aston Martin – the Laureato Chronograph Aston Martin edition. That was a piece that would fall under the ‘expected model’ category of… Read More ›

• NEW: Vulcain Chronograph 1970s Hand Wound

  By horologium on March 24, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Vulcain has dipped into its heritage before for modern pieces, and today, the latest ‘new heritage’ piece is a revival of a 1970s Chronographs. The new Chronograph 1970s Hand-Wound is not their first historically oriented chronograph, with the 50s Presidents… Read More ›

• NEW: G-SHOCK x Y’s Yohji Yamamoto

  By horologium on March 22, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  There are many owners of haute horlogerie watches who also have (often multiple) G-SHOCKs, and because there are also Yamamoto fans amongst some of this subset, this might be of interest to that crossover. To mark five decades, Yohji Yamamoto’s… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: Tudor pop-up in Geneva

  By horologium on March 21, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  In a first, Tudor will have a pop-up boutique in central Geneva to accompany Watches & Wonders 2023 and their new releases. Yes that’s right – the entire range of Tudor watches will be available during Watches & Wonders 2023,… Read More ›