This year, Cartier has released two new limited edition Métiers d’Art watches featuring the arts of marquetry, enamelling, miniature painting, and gem-setting to highlight its ‘house mascot’, the panthère. Meet the new Ronde Louis Cartier Straw and Gold Marquetry, and… Read More ›
Since Jaeger-LeCoultre’s launch of the first Memovox alarm watch in 1950 with what has become an immediately recognisable dial consisting of concentric rings and a triangular marker for the alarm, it has become an important part of the brand’s modern… Read More ›
An unexpected partnership between two very different brands and a decade long relationship between Edouard Meylan and Maximilian Büsser have lead to MB&F putting a new spin on the ‘friends’ of the ‘F’, and H.Moser & Cie putting their distinctive… Read More ›
Along with the simplicity of the new Portugieser Automatic launched by IWC this ‘year of the Port’, at the other end of the spectrum is a multi-complication – the new Portugieser Tourbillon Retrograde Chronograph. This is along a similar thematic… Read More ›
The figure eight dials of Jaquet Droz’s Grande Seconde Off-Centered have found themselves clad in dark dials (onyx and aventurine) before. Now, with an Australian connection, the brand’s use of minerals for dials continues, with the addition of black jade…. Read More ›
For all the brand’s extrovert designs and characteristics, brightness of case material, although not alien to them, is also not one’s first thought when thinking about URWERK. Of this new limited edition (twenty-five pieces) UR-100 Gold Edition, released on the… Read More ›
Last year at the SIHH 2019 Hermès released the Arceau L’heure de la Lune, a double moon display that featured a display of moon phases in both Northern and Southern Hemispheres. With two mobile lacquered white dials above a meteorite… Read More ›
It is always an interesting experience visiting Roger Dubuis at the pka SIHH now Watches & Wonders Geneva, and with this year’s having been purely digital in form, it’s even more of a shame that we did not have the… Read More ›
There has been an interesting level of confidence about direction from Montblanc in recent years. It has been as though they decided on some clear collection identities and are settling in to steadily expand each of these. The vintage-inspired 1858… Read More ›
Well they did it. At the SIHH 2018, along with the Altiplano Ultimate Automatic 910P, Piaget unveiled the Altiplano Ultimate Concept, the thinnest mechanical watch in the world. The big question was, of course, whether it would just remain just… Read More ›
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