The recent history of Longines’ Avigation watches is not unknown here, nor in fact is the model name of Avigation Type-A 1935 an unfamiliar one. Like the Avigation Type-A 1935 that we covered in 2016, the 2020 variant is in… Read More ›
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NEW: Oris Hölstein Edition 2020
Oris is celebrating the village in which it was founded with a number of limited edition series this year. The first is named in honour of Hölstein, where the company was established on 1 June 1904 by watchmakers Paul Cattin… Read More ›
NEW: IWC Portugieser Tourbillon Retrograde Chronograph
Along with the simplicity of the new Portugieser Automatic launched by IWC this ‘year of the Port’, at the other end of the spectrum is a multi-complication – the new Portugieser Tourbillon Retrograde Chronograph. This is along a similar thematic… Read More ›
NEW: Parmigiani Tonda Tondagraphe Tourbillon
Following on from the previous post about a new model combining a chronograph and a calendar function, today’s post it is also about a newly announced piece combining a chronograph with other complications – in this case, with a tourbillon…. Read More ›
NEW: Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Chronograph Calendar and a Master Control update
Named for the fact that it was the first of Jaeger-LeCoultre’s collections to have the ‘1000 Hours Control’ certification, the longstanding Master Control collection is getting some attention this year with newly tweaked Date, Calendar, and Geographic models, plus the… Read More ›
NEW: Zenith Chronomaster Revival ‘Shadow’
Watch brands love an ‘origin story’, and if you can combine one with a famous movement and words like ‘prototype’ and variations on the theme of ‘found in a dusty box in the corner of a hidden room discovered when… Read More ›
NEW: Glashütte Original Sixties and Sixties Chronograph Annual Edition 2020 Glacier Blue
Glashütte Original’s Sixties line, along with the Seventies models, belong to their retro-inspired Vintage collection, with dials that provide a canvas for colours that reflect both the two decades for which they are named, and the occasional foray into a… Read More ›
INDUSTRY NEWS : Patek Philippe allows online sales by authorised dealers in response to COVID-19
Professional Watches has reported that in response to the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on sales with the widespread closure of its retailers, Patek Phillippe has agreed to allow temporarily allow its authorised dealers to sell existing stock online. For the full… Read More ›
NEW : Audemars Piguet [Re]master01 Chronograph
Over the last half a dozen years there was a (marketing?) craze that that spread in all manner of directions – things being ‘reimagined’. It was sometimes an object (even food), sometimes a space, sometimes even an idea. I once… Read More ›
NEW: IWC Portugieser Chronograph In-House Calibre 69355
The Portugieser, in its many forms, has been a long time stalwart of IWC’s collections, and there is no reason to think that its enduring popularity will fade anytime soon. One of (the?) most popular variants of ‘Ports’, as they… Read More ›
