watch brands
Back in 2014 Chopard introduced their first watch using Fairmined® gold, the standard for ‘fair mined’ having been determined in 2011 by the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM). At the time, I noted that some of the challenges faced by… Read More ›
In 2016, Lange launched the Datograph Perpetual Tourbillon. The ‘Datograph’ of the name refers to a flyback chronograph with a jumping minute counter and the Lange outsize date, the ‘Perpetual’ means a perpetual calendar with jumping displays combined with a… Read More ›
Casio’s marking of the 35th birthday of the G-Shock continues with a new model that is gold in both name and form. The Pure Gold Dream Project G-Shock has its genesis in the pièce unique Casio ‘Dream Project’ G-Shock concept… Read More ›
Hysek recently announced the latest addition to their IO collection, the new Double Orbitale. Time telling in this new piece is in a jump hour direct read format with minutes and seconds indicated by a different spin on a traditional… Read More ›
It is not just about the CODE 11:59 from Audemars Piguet this year, with #thewatchnerd finding himself noticing a rather different new release from the brand at the SIHH. The Haute Joaillerie Sapphire Orbe is an unabashedly eye-catching white gold… Read More ›
The blue theme we noted in January continues apace, with Breguet’s Classique Ref. 5177, one of the most ‘quintessentially Breguet’ of its watches, now released in Grand Feu Blue Enamel. Previously available in white enamel with blued hands, this new… Read More ›
Let’s first go back a bit. In 2011, to mark the ‘Mechanical Wonders’ exhibition in New York, Parmigiani launched the Toric Minute Repeater, a modern tribute to the early 19th century Perrin Freres pocket watch that they restored for the… Read More ›
Last year, popular Bauhaus-inspired brand Nomos’ Tangente neomatik 41 Update won the ‘Challenger’ category at the 2018 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève awards. Now, they have launched a new variant of this model, this time with a dark galvanized dial… Read More ›
Glashütte brand Moritz Grossmann has launched its first watch with a GMT function, and succinctly named it as such. Bearing a dial of classic design, the twelve hour markers show the current time for the wearer. The outer twenty-four hour… Read More ›
With most of the attention focused on the Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpétuel and the Master Ultra Thin Enamel models, for me, the highlight of Jaeger-LeCoultre’s SIHH 2019 releases were in fact the two elegant and attractive Reversos in… Read More ›
