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With most people focused on releases from the other members of the Girard-Perregaux watch stable every year, it’s easy to overlook the less headline-grabbing but nonetheless popular, Cat’s Eye, collection. This year the brand launched three new additions to the… Read More ›
A year after the launch of the Clifton Baumatic with its in-house automatic Baumatic BM12-1951A COSC-certified movement, Baume et Mercier have returned with a Perpetual Calendar to join the fold. The Baumatic calibre had been Baume et Mercier’s first in-house… Read More ›
In a recent post we mentioned how Cartier has managed to have some very enduring distinctive case designs that have not only endured, but lended themselves to a seemingly infinite number of variations over a long time. The Santos, the… Read More ›
Sometimes, new watches can be highly divisive, but seldom has an ‘establishment’ brand’s new collection been subjected to such a rapid, visceral, and almost universal round of negativity at its launch. What happens when the time ticks over from 11:59… Read More ›
The modern A. Lange & Söhne story can be easily traced back to a quarter of a century ago when Walter Lange and his partner Günter Blümlein presented their first four ‘new Lange’ watches, including the then highly unusual Lange… Read More ›
Distinctive case shape designs have been a core part of Cartier’s watchmaking history, with some very recognisable forms that have become mainstays in their collections (and dare we say to the extent that they probably can’t stop them because of… Read More ›
At next week’s SIHH Piaget will present three additions to their Altiplano collection family, one of which features a dial material familiar to some of you, meteorite (see here for a sister brand’s past offering, this link for another one… Read More ›
Launched at Baselworld 2018 to mark 280 years of the brand, the Grande Seconde Skelet-One was a modern skeletonised iteration of Jaquet Droz’s signature ‘8’ styled dial design. The three inaugural models consisted of two in gold, and one in… Read More ›
In March 2018, freediver Guillaume Néry announced that he had become a worldwide ambassador for Officine Panerai, revealing that he was ‘chapter 3’ of the TRAITS campaign (his section called, naturally, ‘Mare’), at the same time. So who is Guillaume… Read More ›
Later this month at the SHH2019, Jaeger-LeCoultre will formally launch an updated version of their classic Master Ultra Thin Moon, which has been available in number of colour and metal combinations over the years, and which remains a mainstay of… Read More ›
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