Following on from the recent announcement about a French Air Force watch, today is about another watch brand and air force model. It’s also another chronograph. In collaboration with the Austrian Air Force, Hanhart has launched a limited edition monopusher… Read More ›
Military watches
NEW: the return of Tornek-Rayville
What’s in a name? Well when it comes to watches, in the case of historical U.S. name Tornek-Rayville, a lot. Acquired by the Bill Yao, the owner of well-known and respected microbrand MKII Watches, the Tornek-Rayville name has been revived,… Read More ›
EXHIBITION: Vintage Fifty Fathoms
It was only last month that we covered the new Blancpain Tribute to Fifty Fathoms No Rad, a limited edition re-interpretation of the 1960s’ Fifty Fathoms “no radiations” with its immediately recognisable symbol. We mentioned the simultaneous release of a… 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: Bulova Military Hack Automatic
Bulova has launched a new Military Hack Automatic inspired by the brand’s vintage 3818-A milwatch, produced in the 1950-1960s when they supplied wristwatches to the U.S. military according to milspecs 3818-A and 6433-A. The 3818-A had, as the name of… Read More ›
LONGINES : Heritage Military Watch
Although they are not Longines’ biggest sellers, if there’s one thing that they can be counted on, it is that the brand will come up with some good looking vintage reissue models for their Heritage Collection. This year, it comes… Read More ›
BASELWORLD 2017 : Blancpain Fifty Fathoms MIL-SPEC
This year Blancpain has added to its Fifty Fathoms collection with a very ‘origin’ inspired model indeed, not only deciding to revive the famed disc on the dial, but to go ‘full milspec’ with the name. It can be difficult… Read More ›
ZENITH : A modern homage to the A. Cairelli Tipo CP-2
Today we bring you probably my favourite release from Zenith to date this year, a limited edition modern homage to their famed A. Cairelli Tipo CP-2. It is not only a good looking watch in and of itself, but it… Read More ›
ON THE WRIST : IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Top Gun Miramar
You may recall an earlier post about one of IWC’s new pilot’s watches for 2016, the Mark XVIII Top Gun Miramar. Well along with this, they also released a new Top Gun Miramar Chronograph which we had on loan… Read More ›
SINN: 856 B-Uhr Limited Edition
This year Sinn has decided to launch a watch based on classic Beobachtungs-uhr (B-Uhr) fliegers. However, rather than using a traditional B-Uhr type 55mm case size, this new limited edition model is the same far more wearable 40mm sized case as… Read More ›