During Baselworld 2014 Girard-Perregaux introduced a new addition to their Chrono Hawk sports chronograph range, in pink gold. With thanks to Avstev, I recently had the opportunity to see this piece in Sydney. The new sixty-two part case is 18K… Read More ›
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CHARITY : HAMMER’S TARGA CHALLENGE
Hammer. Some are known just by the single moniker. Instead of repeating what has been written about him many times before, both in his own words and by others, I direct you to this link. If you are new to… Read More ›
ON THE WRIST : Baume et Mercier’s Clifton Retrograde Date
Earlier this year, I covered Baume et Mercier’s new Clifton Retrograde Date, which I first saw at SIHH 2014. Recently, I had the opportunity to test drive one for a month with thanks to Baume et Mercier Australia. For those… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : Vacheron Constantin Malte Tourbillon Openworked
Earlier this year we covered the new Métiers d’Art Fabuleux Ornements watches from Vacheron Constantin, featuring some of Vacheron’s delicate open-working skills. Aside from these, there was a general theme focusing on new open-work watches at SIHH 2014, and one… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : Girard-Perregaux Cat’s Eye Anniversary watch
At Baselworld 2014 Girard-Perregaux launched a number of new models to add to their successful Cat’s Eye women’s collection. One of these was an Anniversary model, marking a decade since its launch, and previously written about on Horologium here. You… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Platinum
As previously posted, earlier this year I had the opportunity to view the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Orange Ceramic. At the same time I also got to see its sibling, the Seamaster Planet Ocean Platinum with diamond-set ceramic and sapphire…. Read More ›
NEWS : Blancpain Villeret 12 Day Flying Tourbillon
The Maison of Blancpain, whose Villeret Collection is both one of its core strengths and yet still, so much under the radar of many, recently added a new piece to the collection – the ‘Volant Une Minute 12 Jours’, aka… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : PROTOTYPE Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox Tribute to Polaris 1968
Seven hundred and sixty eight. This is the number that were produced by Jaeger-LeCoultre in 2008 of the immensely popular re-edition of the 1968 (as opposed to the other 2008 re-edition of the 1965 version) Memovox Polaris diving watch. A… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : the Bremont Codebreaker
Sometimes it seems that Bremont is pretty much as ‘British’ as they can possibly be, as military-aligned as they can be. Whether it is special editions for airforce squadrons, their links with Martin Baker or their ‘Victory’ watch, their enthusiasm… Read More ›
WATCH PROFILE : Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Contemporaine Ultra-Thin Calibre 1731
Unfortunately, I haven’t (yet) had the opportunity to get my greedy hands on the Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Comtemporaine Minute Repeater, but I did get the chance to gawk at it in its display cabinet at SIHH 2014 earlier this year…. Read More ›