A new year deserves a new brand – in this case, that of Marco Lang, who left Lang & Heyne last year and is now a brand under his own name, still in Dresden. His first model is a limited… Read More ›
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NEW: Hautlence HL Sphere 02
One of the most enjoyable watches I had the opportunity to handle in 2019 was the Hautlence HL Sphere 01. As mentioned, it was the HL Kinetic table clock brought to wrist size, displaying hours in a spherical ‘jumping hour’… Read More ›
NEW: Laurent Ferrier Classic Origin Green
One of the most interesting aspects of going through the annual GPHG list of nominated watches is the models which have not yet been formally launched. In some cases, the launch dates are months after they appear on the GPHG… Read More ›
NEW: Urwerk EMC TimeHunter ‘Stormtrooper’
It doesn’t feel like that long ago since we saw the original Urwerk EMC. The first EMC TimeHunter, which was based on the EMC, has morphed into the black TimeHunter Ceramic, the TimeHunter X-Ray, and now, the matching ‘light’ to… Read More ›
NEW: Moritz Grossmann XII Birthday Edition
A number of brands are marking a decade this year, but for Grossmann Uhren GmbH in Glashütte, it is twelve years, and they have just launched the XII Birthday Edition watch collection of two very limited and very elegant dress… Read More ›
INDUSTRY NEWS: Watches & Wonders Geneva 2021 to be digital
April 2021 may seem far away but in fair organisation terms, especially amidst COVID-19, it is not, and so the perhaps expected announcement by Watches & Wonders that next year’s Geneva fair will again be solely digital, has come to… Read More ›
NEW: URWERK UR-100V Iron
Earlier this year URWERK released the UR-100 Gold, the fourth UR-100 model since the launch of the original SpaceTime. It’s clearly been popular, as now, they have a fifth limited edition variant of the U-100. As to whether there will… Read More ›
NEW: Ressence Type 5X
In this the tenth year since the brand’s launch, Ressence have released their second (following the Type 1 Slim X) of four birthday pieces in the Ressence X collection – the 5X. Each of the four watches of the Collection… Read More ›
EXHIBITION: “The Heartbeat of the City: 500 Years of Personal Time”
From Tuesday 27 October until Sunday 13 December 2020 the History of Science Museum, Oxford, is hosting an exhibition on time and time-keeping called “The Heartbeat of the City: 500 Years of Personal Time”. It is presented by the History… 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 ›
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