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• NEW: TAG Heuer Monaco Green Dial Limited Edition

  By horologium on April 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  We are almost twelve months into it but no you can’t yet escape the green theme. We’ve covered some multi-coloured releases recently, but I still think that it will run until the end of 2021. Meet the new TAG Heuer… Read More ›

• PURNELL: Escape II Absolute Sapphire

  By horologium on April 28, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the interesting things to have come out of the digital Watches & Wonders 2021 for me was the press Q&A session by Purnell. Although I knew of them, my knowledge was sparse and didn’t go much beyond that,… Read More ›

• NEW: Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Nonantième

  By horologium on April 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Although the year is not yet half over, and Jaeger-LeCoultre will no doubt release more Reverso models to mark its 90th year, I feel fairly certain that the Reverso Tribute Nonantième will be my favourite of the celebratory year’s releases…. Read More ›

• NEW: Franck Muller Vanguard Skeleton Sapphire Colour Dreams

  By horologium on April 24, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Today is about another new release along the ‘colour theme’ of recent posts but again, an example of how ‘being colourful’ is manifesting itself quite differently between brands. Rather than go the ‘single colour’ route, not unsurprisingly, Franck Muller have… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS 2021: Carl F. Bucherer Manero Minute Repeater Symphony

  By horologium on April 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  At Watches & Wonders 2021 Carl F. Bucherer premiered the Manero Minute Repeater Symphony, the horological centrepiece of their relationship with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Alongside this partnership, Swedish composer Lisa Streich wrote a piece entitled “PERIPHERY”, commissioned by the… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS 2021: Chronoswiss Flying Regulator Open Gear Pink Panther

  By horologium on April 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Watches, like other inanimate objects, are inherently neutral. Sizing, decoration – these are all a product of socio-cultural and historical influences, and preferences similarly the subjective mix of time, place, and individual. It’s why there are trends, why which watches… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS 2021: Montblanc 1858 Monopusher Chronograph Origins LE 100

  By horologium on April 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  At the beginning of this month we wrote about the new limited edition1858 Split Second Chronograph Limited Edition 18 in “Lime Gold” from Montblanc. It turns out that this was not to be the only new chronograph they would announce… Read More ›

• EXHIBITION: Vintage Fifty Fathoms

  By horologium on April 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  It was only last month that we covered the new Blancpain Tribute to Fifty Fathoms No Rad, a limited edition re-interpretation of the 1960s’ Fifty Fathoms “no radiations” with its immediately recognisable symbol. We mentioned the simultaneous release of a… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS 2021: Chopard L.U.C. Perpetual Chrono

  By horologium on April 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The L.U.C Perpetual Chrono is a model that has made appearances in the Chopard lineup before, but in white gold, rose gold, and platinum forms. Now, it comes in a new grade 5 titanium case. The dial is solid gold,… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS 2021: IWC Big Pilot Perpetual Calendar

  By horologium on April 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The perpetual calendar complication has found its way into a many different IWC models since it was developed by Kurt Klaus in the 1980s. In the Big Pilot collection family, into which it made its first appearance in 2006 (a… Read More ›