We have already mentioned that this year the town of this town Glashütte is celebrating 175 years of watchmaking, the date based on when Ferdinand Adolph Lange established his watchmaking business there in 1845. Glashütte is also home to the… Read More ›
Moritz Grossmann have taken the obvious step and turned the dial of their BACKPAGE model, which is centred around the manually-wound Calibre 107.0 on the dial side, transparent, so as to highlight the feature after which it is named. With… Read More ›
So you may have been wondering if it’s just you or if there have been a lot of blue dials this year (there have been) and feeling in need of some other colour options. Well green might be more your… Read More ›
Last year as a part of their new Pilot pieces IWC revamped their Spitfire range, put in some new in-house movements, and included a series of bronze cases for the first time. At the top end of these new pieces was… Read More ›
Today is a continuation of the theme from the last post about an updated time zone timepiece but this time, the changes are less substantial. In 2015 Glashütte Original presented the new Senator Cosmopolite, a travel watch with 35 time… Read More ›
Is fifteen years a long time between changes? There is no actual answer to this question, but in thinking about it, there’s also another thing that might be (re) considered – the perceived ‘need’ to create or present new pieces… Read More ›
Known today for its practical and sturdy pilots’ watches, German brand Laco is perhaps better known, in historical terms, as being one of the five brands (the others being Stowa, A. Lange & Söhne, Wempe and IWC) who made the… Read More ›
Earlier this year we mentioned A. Lange & Söhne’s Lange 1 25th Anniversary, the first in a series of limited edition ‘birthday watches’ released in 2019 which have several features in common – an argenté-coloured dial in solid silver with… Read More ›
In our first of these thematic posts, we mentioned how unexpected the Baume & Mercier Clifton Club ‘going bronze’ had been to us. Today’s post is also about an unexpected direction, with MeisterSinger committing to an entirely new collection line…. 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 ›
