De Bethune’s very singular use of meteorite, remarkable not just for how different it is to the use of this material by other brands but also in and of itself, is something that we have covered before. The Dream Watch… Read More ›
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NEW: De Bethune Kind of Two Hi-Beat Tourbillon
Double-sided timepieces with two dials have a long history in horology, used both to display multi-funtionality and highlight creative arts. The former, in particular, have been a form in which to show prowess in being able to fit in sometimes… Read More ›
NEW: De Bethune DB28GS ‘Yellow Submarine’
Think about the newly announced DB28GS Yellow Submarine as a combination of two watches – the DB28GS Diver, and the DB28 Yellow Tones. Their first venture into yellow, created through thermal oxidation of grade 5 titanium, was used in ‘Yellow… Read More ›
NEW: De Bethune DB28 Steel Wheels Sapphire Tourbillon
The name of De Bethune’s Steel Wheels was inspired by the name of the Rolling Stones’ comeback album, but the newest horological Steel Wheel is not about comebacks but about the brand segueing in a very De Bethune fashion. It… Read More ›
INDUSTRY NEWS: Geneva Watch Days update
Launched in March 2020 as a response to the cancellation of this year’s major watch fairs, the Geneva Watch Days event, which had been postponed to August, has announced that they still plan to hold the event at this time… Read More ›
NEW: DB28XP – De Bethune marks a decade of the DB28
This year De Bethune is marking ten years since the launch of the first DB28 with three new pieces that are, as they say, familiar but different – the DB28XP, the DB28XP Starry Sky, and the DB28XP Tourbillon. What is… Read More ›
INDUSTRY NEWS: Geneva Watch Days rescheduled to August 2020
In some ways, time has become both something of which we are more acutely aware and simultaneously something from which many feel disconnected from at present, but it was only at the beginning of this month that Geneva Watch Days… Read More ›
INDUSTRY NEWS: Geneva Watch Days 2020
With the cancellation of both Watches & Wonders Geneva 2020 and Baselworld 2020, a number of brands have decided to hold an event called Geneva Watch Days over the period during which Watches & Wonders was to have taken place…. Read More ›
HANDS-ON : De Bethune DB28 Yellow Tones
The Denis Flageollet blue for which De Bethune has become known and which, arguably, is the best ‘brand blue’ around, has become the company’s distinctive signature to the point where a completely yellow watch took me some time to get… Read More ›
NEW : De Bethune DB28GS Grand Bleu Diver
In 2015 De Bethune launched their most ‘sporty’ watch to date, called the DB28GS (Grand Sport). Given the dressy and incredibly highly finished watches for which they are known, it was a ‘sports watch’ (some even called it a diving… Read More ›
