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NEW: Panerai Submersible Goldtech™ Orocarbo (PAM01070)
This may be the year of the Luminor for Officine Panerai this year, but that does not mean that they have abandoned new releases from their other collection families. At the recent Watches & Wonders Shanghai they launched a new… Read More ›
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NEW: Piaget Polo S Green
Green has not been a colour alien to Piaget in recent years. In fact there was a green Polo S released last year in a limited edition, but here we are in 2020 and green watches are a ‘thing’, so… Read More ›
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NEW: A.Lange & Söhne’s Honeygold “Homage to F. A. Lange”
To mark thirty years since the brand’s modern rebirth, A. Lange & Söhne has launched three special watches in its proprietary ‘Honeygold’ in honour of Ferdinand Adoph Lange. They are the 1815 Thin Honeygold, the 1815 Rattrapante Honeygold, and the… Read More ›
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NEW: Hublot Spirit of Big Bang Green SAXEM
No, the list of green watches for 2020 is not yet over. You may recall Hublot’s very limited (twenty pieces) bright green offering called the Big Bang MP-11 SAXEM. This Hublot-trademarked term stands for Sapphire Aluminium oXide and rare Earth… Read More ›
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NEW: Louis Moinet Space Revolution LE
Earthly confines have never held back the making of pocket or wristwatches. This inspiration has come both in the form of complications and of design/ aesthetics, whether this be planetary movements, location of celestial objects, sidereal time, depictions of the… Read More ›
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HANDS-ON: Pasha de Cartier Skeleton
We have had the ’something new’ from Cartier, and today is about the ‘something old’ – the relaunching of the Cartier de Pasha. As a collection, Cartier’s Pasha in the modern form was introduced in 1985, but its name and… Read More ›
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NEW: Gérald Genta Arena Bi-Retro Sport
The horological tour de force that was Gérald Genta (1931 – 2011) was responsible for some of the most influential and significant watch designs produced in the modern history of wristwatches. That some of them, and variants based on them,… Read More ›
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NEW: Andersen Genève 40th anniversary Jumping Hour
Last year Svend Andersen launched a new collection called ‘Art & Culture’ and with it, a limited edition (twelve pieces) launch model called ‘Vita Vinum’ (‘life wine’ in Latin). It was one of the six finalists in the GPHG 2019… Read More ›
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NEW: MB&F TriPod
Do things come in threes? Humans look for patterns (‘apophenia’, coined by Klaus Conrad, is the tendency to see connections and meaningful links between unrelated things). As as a creative device, the number three has long been a popular one,… Read More ›
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NEW: De Bethune DB28 Steel Wheels Sapphire Tourbillon
The name of De Bethune’s Steel Wheels was inspired by the name of the Rolling Stones’ comeback album, but the newest horological Steel Wheel is not about comebacks but about the brand segueing in a very De Bethune fashion. It… Read More ›
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