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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Montblanc’s releases during 2018 are focused into three lines: the 1858 collection, the TimeWalker collection, and the Star Legacy collection. Today, we are looking at the first of these. As well, this year marks the 160th birthday of the ‘Minerva’… Read More ›
The tonneau-cased Kalpa with its teardrop lugs and Delta-shaped hands is perhaps the case design most characteristically recognised as being from Parmigiani Fleurier. It is also of great sentimental value to Michel Parmigiani; in 1998, the Kalpa was where his… Read More ›
This year has seen the launch, by Kari Voutilainen, of a new watch inspired by his Vingt-8 movement. Called the 217QRS, it features a retrograde date display with an unusual attribute. The usual retrograde date function of this type with… Read More ›
Two years ago, MB&F released the remarkable Cnidarian-inspired HM7 Aquapod (about which you can read here) in two limited editions of sixty-six pieces in rose gold, and thirty-three pieces in titanium. The former had a black ceramic bezel and the… Read More ›
In 2010, Chopard marked their 150th birthday with the release of what they described as their most complex model to date – the ‘L.U.C. All-in-One 150’, of which there were fifteen examples made. Now, eight years later, they are re-visiting… Read More ›
