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 ›
German watches
NEW : A. Lange & Söhne LANGE 1 DAYMATIC ’25th Anniversary’
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 ›
BRONZE FORTNIGHT : MeisterSinger Bronze Line
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 ›
NEW : Nomos Glashütte Tangente neomatik 41 Update ruthenium
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 ›
NEW : Moritz Grossmann GMT
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 ›
SIHH 2019 : A. Lange & Söhne LANGE 1 25th Anniversary
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 ›
A. LANGE & SOHNE : colour comes to the Little Lange 1
Today’s post is about one of the most day-to-day wearable new ranges of women’s watches to have crossed my path this year – A. Lange & Söhne’s latest versions of their Little Lange 1. With a colour palette that distinguishes… Read More ›
IWC : Portugieser Hand-Wound Eight Days ‘150 Years’
This year IWC Schaffhausen announced a number of special Portugieser watches as part of its 150th birthday Jubilee collection : the Portugieser Constant-Force Tourbillon Edition ‘150 Years’, Portugieser Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon Edition ‘150 Years’, Portugieser Perpetual Calendar Edition “150 Years”a… Read More ›
BASELWORLD 2018 : Sinn 910 SRS
At first glance the new Sinn 910 SRS launched at Baselworld 2018 may seem familiar. It bears a strong resemblance to the Sinn 910 Anniversary column wheel split-seconds chronograph, about which I wrote here, and which was the brand’s first… Read More ›
NEWS : Sinn Spezialuhren move into new purpose-built headquarters
German watchmaker Sinn Spezialuhren is celebrating the opening of a new company HQ in Frankfurt am Main that includes a showroom for current collections and an exhibition of historic models. With an area of approximately 7,000 sq metres, it is… Read More ›
