Dior’s Chiffre Rouge range of men’s watches form what the brand calls their ‘exceptional wrist watch’ collection, and the models falling under this line are characterised by their rather distinctive asymmetrical case shape, automatic movements, and limited editions of as… Read More ›
Limited Editions
BASELWORLD 2013 : Commemorating Seiko’s founder with an Astron GPS solar
Baselworld 2012 saw the launch of the Seiko Astron GPS Solar, an immensely popular watch about which I have written about before. The passing of a year brings us to Baselworld 2013 and six new models with 26 city names,… Read More ›
From floral folly to Métiers d’art
Watch brands, by and large, tend to focus on watches for the male of the species rather than the female in their major yearly launches, but this year Vacheron Constantin focused on women, bringing out some Métiers d’art pieces for… Read More ›
HYT presents the new H2
The HYT team have announced the new H2, a further development of last year’s H1 using the same basic concepts and technology, this time created in collaboration with Renaud & Papi. You can read more about the H1 at the… Read More ›
IWC : AMG Black Series Ceramic, the Silberpfeil & a digital complication
This post follows on from my previous post covering the most simple and the most complicated of the Ingenieurs from IWC this year. This time, it’s some of the rather more sporty models linked with the new Mercedes AMG Petronas… Read More ›
SIHH 2013 : A. Lange & Söhne
A. Lange & Söhne’s SIHH 2013 was an interesting combination of low key and out there. The ‘out there’ aspect was (largely but not entirely) the rather huge model of the Grand Complication, a marvel to which most of us… Read More ›
WORLD EXCLUSIVE : the first McGonigle ‘Tuscar’ has been delivered
Irish brothers John and Stephen McGonigle’s first watch, launched in 2007, was a tourbillon that earned them candidacy to the AHCI (Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants). Their second watch the ‘Tuscar’, named after a lighthouse marked group of rocks that skirt… Read More ›
Hands-on with Jaeger-LeCoultre’s ‘Reverso Rouge’
Considered to be one of the true horological icons, Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Reverso is the legendary reversible watch created in 1931 for polo players looking to protect the glass of their watch. Since then, it has not only proven itself to be… Read More ›
HANDS ON : Casio’s limited edition Royal Air Force G-Shock
At the announcement of a collaboration between Casio and the British Royal Air Force to create a limited edition G-SHOCK Gravity Defier (GW-A1000RAF-1AER), I pondered aloud that even with a limited edition of 2,000 and a price of GBP500, it… Read More ›
HANDS-ON with MB&F’s Retrotastic HM5
It is commonplace to use various types of stories describe watches, to describe watch brands. How powerfully and truly these ring is a combination of history, how the narratives are weaved around us and, in the end, how believable each… Read More ›