In 2019 explorer and National Geographic photographer Cory Richards wore a prototype Vacheron Constantin Overseas Dual Time during his (third) Everest expedition, with Esteban “Topo” Mena, via the North-East ridge. The watch was subsequently auctioned by Phillips, realising USD106,250, and… Read More ›
After having launched a ‘sky diving friendly’ GMT Sport with Integrated Bracelet earlier this year, Greubel Forsey have now announced the third and final variant of its GMT Earth. The first was in white gold, the second in platinum, and… Read More ›
Fabergé has exapnded their Visionnaire DTZ collection, the original of which I wrote about at the time (it was one of my highlights of 2016), with the new DTZ Dynamist. The launch model won the ‘Travel Time’ category at the… Read More ›
Back in 2016 De Bethune debuted the the DB25 World Traveller. It featured a second time zone and world time indicator with fifteen time zones. The DB25 World Traveller was about the concentric arrangement of functions – the world times… Read More ›
Amongst the many ways to present a new Greubel Forsey, sky diving doesn’t tend to come to mind as one of the top three possibilities. Nor even the top ten. To my mind, anyway. This is how it was unveiled… 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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
