Earlier this year, Chopard co-CEO Karl Friedrich Scheufele’s young brand Ferdinand Berthoud released an interesting new regulator-style watch, the Chronomètre FB 1R.6-1. Inspired by the Marine Chronometer No.7 made by the brand’s namesake Ferdinand Berthoud more than two centuries ago,… Read More ›
Van Cleef & Arpels has both a watch and jewellery history in themes relating to astronomy and western astrology. Although it will not be formally launched until later in 2018, earlier this year we had the opportunity to see some… Read More ›
A year ago we introduced you to a small Barcelona headquartered brand called Ophion, courtesy of a new model called the OPH 786. This watch had an outsized ripple of interest for its low volume vintage-inspired pieces using Swiss movements,… Read More ›
Watch brands change their messaging and focus to varying degrees. Some seem to have these deeply embedded into the brand identity, and others refresh on a far more regular basis. This year, for Piaget it is about the ‘sunny side… Read More ›
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 ›
Although they are not Longines’ biggest sellers, if there’s one thing that they can be counted on, it is that the brand will come up with some good looking vintage reissue models for their Heritage Collection. This year, it comes… Read More ›
Last year Rado released modern versions of a vintage piece, called the Hyperchrome Captain Cook. Its success has lead to two more variant reissues, the Captain Cook MkII and MkIII. The latter of these, inspired by a 1962 piece, is… Read More ›
This year URWERK presented a black platinum edition (not its first black platinum piece) of its UR-210, a timepiece famed for two things – its combination of patented revolving satellite complication with wandering hour and three-dimensional retrograde minute hand, and… Read More ›
In 2012 when HYT unveiled its original hydro-mechanical watch it was one of the year’s headliners, both for its incredibly modern good looks, and for its innovation. In the years since then, they have proven themselves as survivors in a… Read More ›
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 ›
