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 ›
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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 ›
NEW: MB&F LM Perpetual EVO
Early this year MB&F released an 18k yellow gold variant of their Legacy Machine (LM) Perpetual, a watch originally launched in 2015 in two editions of twenty-five pieces each in 18k 5N+ red gold and Platinum 950 but which expanded… Read More ›
NEW: HYT FLOW
In 2017 HYT launched the H4 Neo, a manually-wound watch with a light source (module) that could be activated on demand. A LED-lit version of the H4, it was an unexpected diversion for a brand known for its fluid timekeeping…. Read More ›
NEW: Andersen Genève 40th anniversary Jumping Hour
Last year Svend Andersen launched a new collection called ‘Art & Culture’ and with it, a limited edition (twelve pieces) launch model called ‘Vita Vinum’ (‘life wine’ in Latin). It was one of the six finalists in the GPHG 2019… Read More ›
NEW: MB&F TriPod
Do things come in threes? Humans look for patterns (‘apophenia’, coined by Klaus Conrad, is the tendency to see connections and meaningful links between unrelated things). As as a creative device, the number three has long been a popular one,… 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 ›
NEW: H. Moser & Cie Streamliner Centre Seconds
If you had wondered if the ‘green trend’ we’ve mentioned of late would continue, the answer is in the affirmative, and the latest addition is from H. Moser & Cie, in the form of the new Streamliner Centre Seconds. However… Read More ›
NEW: Sarpaneva x Moomin
For a number of years now, the official custodians of the Moomin legacy have celebrated ‘Moomin’s Day’ on the 9th of August, the date chosen because it is the birthday of writer and illustrator Tove Jansson. Her Moominvalley works are… Read More ›
