We just looked at the new Fortis Flieger F-41 and F-39, which are made from recycled stainless steel, and today’s new offering from Oris is in a similar vein – the new Aquis Date Upcycle has dials made from recycled… Read More ›
Sustainability
NEW: Fortis Flieger F-41 and F-39 Midnight Blue
Another solid mid range tool watch is the subject of today’s post – meet the new Flieger F-41 and F-29 Midnight Blue, new additions to the Flieger collection launched last year but whose history within the brand goes back to… Read More ›
NEWS: Greubel Forsey to change to plant-based straps
It is interesting to watch the use of plant-based material, which has been used in fashion, shoes, and accessories for awhile (even if still relatively niche) move to watch accessories. Especially as a predominant theme of straps is still about… Read More ›
HANDS-ON: Cartier Tank Must Solar Beat
During Watches & Wonders Geneva 2021, Cartier surprised everyone by the announcement of their first solar powered watch – the SolarBeat. To recap, the SolarBeat Tank Must has small perforations in the black Roman numerals providing the openings through which… Read More ›
NEW: Kari Voutilainen 28SC-SB
So it’s time for another green watch, but with added gold. This time, from Kari Voutilainen. Kari Voutilainen’s 28SC, his first model featuring a centre seconds, won the men’s watch prize at the GPHG 2020. Now, he has followed it… Read More ›
WATCHES & WONDERS 2021: Panerai Submersible eLAB-ID PAM1225
Last year there had been some talk in the air about Panerai doing something very interesting in terms of sustainability and recycled material, and so it has come to be. If you read ‘LAB-ID’ you know that it’s going to… Read More ›
NEW: Swatch BIOCERAMIC
Think of today’s post as running in parallel to a post from last year about Triwa’s watches made from recycled plastic. Parallel because it is not about using recycled material to make watches, but it is about Swatch deciding to… Read More ›
NEW: BAUME Ocean Limited Edition
Today we have something new that continues in on the ocean/ sustainability theme that has been rippling through this year. It comes courtesy of Baume, the ‘offshoot’ brand that was integrated into a Baume & Mercier collection last May after… Read More ›
NEW: TRIWA ‘Time for Oceans Arctic’ recycled watches
We admittedly don’t tend to cover inexpensive quartz watches here, but that isn’t an absolute rule for which there are no exceptions, so today is about a brand of which we are aware but don’t follow, so we missed the… Read More ›
NEW: Ulysse Nardin Diver NET concept watch
Today’s watch is green again, but more importantly, it is part of the building momentum by more watch brands to operate more sustainably and with increasing acknowledgement and awareness that they don’t make watches within their own bubble. Another part… Read More ›
