Tamerlane, real name Tīmūr bin Taraghay Barlas, was a 14th century Turco-Mongol warlord and conqueror whose empire-building across Asia Minor was characterised by widespread destruction, burning, looting, massacres, and mass rape. His name was also the title of Edgar Allan… Read More ›
The year is not yet complete, and so Piaget’s 60th birthday celebrations for the Altiplano still have a couple of months to go. Earlier this year we covered the our favourite so far, the ‘blues’, as well as a high… Read More ›
Earlier this year Montblanc formally relaunched the TimeWalker collection, with more integration of Minerva movements a key part of this re-invigoration. With the Rally Timer, TimeWalker Auto Date, TimeWalker Chronograph, TimeWalker Chronograph UTC and a 1/1000th TimeWalker Chronograph being the… Read More ›
To mark the occasion of Patek Philippe’s The Art of Watches Grand Exhibition which has just opened in New York (click here for more information), they have released a number of special limited edition commemorative models. The ones that they… Read More ›
Some of you may remember Jaeger-LeCoultre’s monumental Hybris Artistica set of twelve timepieces releases from 2014. As an exercise in saying “hey look at all the things we can do”, it was pretty successful. Today is about one of those… Read More ›
In this the year of its 185th birthday Baume & Mercier has chosen to mark it with an unexpected offering that was launched in Hong Kong at Watches & Wonders – a five-minute repeater pocket watch. Named after the year in which… Read More ›
In thinking about what watch/ timepiece to post first from Hong Kong there have clearly been a lot of timepieces from which to choose, but interestingly, there have been one or two mini themes that have popped up. One of these… Read More ›
Eight years, three master watchmakers, fifty-seven complications, 2826 parts, ten patents, ten ‘firsts’, 957grams, 98mm in size, one reference number (Ref. 57260). Oh, and one hashtag, of course. Venerable house of horology or not, Vacheron Constantin’s 260th birthday is in… Read More ›
For those who are familiar with Geneva one of the horological points of interest, as it were, is the building that houses Vacheron Constantin on the Quai d l’Ile, its location also the name of one of their watch collections…. Read More ›
If you like watches and are in Paris, a visit to the Breguet Museum which forms part of the boutique at Place Vendôme is pretty much a given. When I visited it a few years ago, unfortunately they were mid-change… Read More ›
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