Ochs und Junior continue on their highly individualistic and minimalist approach to watches with the launch of the new ‘day/ night’, conceptualised and designed by Dr. Ludwig Oechslin. This is not a watch with a typical ‘day/ night indicator’. This… Read More ›
This year, Armin Strom has taken their ‘Mirrored Force Resonance’ technology and created a second movement presented in a new watch collection called ‘Pure Resonance’. Earlier this year we had the opportunity to see the ‘Fire’ and ‘Water’ Pure Resonance… Read More ›
Earlier this year, Chopard co-CEO Karl Friedrich Scheufele’s young brand Ferdinand Berthoud released an interesting new regulator-style watch, the Chronomètre FB 1R.6-1. Inspired by the Marine Chronometer No.7 made by the brand’s namesake Ferdinand Berthoud more than two centuries ago,… Read More ›
Van Cleef & Arpels has both a watch and jewellery history in themes relating to astronomy and western astrology. Although it will not be formally launched until later in 2018, earlier this year we had the opportunity to see some… Read More ›
One of the most intriguing new watches I’ve come across so far this year has been the Ressence Type 2 e-Crown Concept. Self-evidently, ‘e-Crown®’ refers to ‘electronic crown’, a new time setting technology developed by Ressence that stretches the brand’s… Read More ›
Steel Case, Arabic Dial (© Charles Frodsham & Co Ltd 2018) Over the years I have learned that for me, the element of luck (in being in the right place at the right time, as well as luck in the… Read More ›
At the end of last year, Piaget made an announcement which in a way was expected (in the sense that Piaget is famed for breaking such records) but was still a surprise. We covered the details and specs of the… Read More ›
Announced just before the start of the SIHH 2018, Baume & Mercier did surprise us this January with the announcement of the new Baumatic Chronometer (one model variant COSC-certified), which we had the opportunity to see in Geneva. First of… Read More ›
In 2014 Piaget released what was the thinnest manual-wind watch to date in the form of the 3.65mm thickness Altiplano 900P. At the SIHH 2018, they will launch a new record, with the presentation of the thinnest automatic watch made… Read More ›
How do you start a post when you come across a very unusual pièce unique that perhaps only the watchmaker and seller knew about until it made its way to its current home, and whose ‘base model’, as it were,… Read More ›
