In this the year of the 200th anniversary of the birth of founder Ferdinand Adolph Lange, A.Lange & Söhne have introduced some special models. One of these has been a platinum 1815 with a black dial, but following on from that,… Read More ›
Watch Profile
DE BETHUNE : DBS Tourbillon
It’s interesting how much impact young independent brands have had on the watch industry. Established in 2002, De Bethune is known for its distinctive mold-breaking designs for what are, at their heart, often quite classical pieces of watchmaking. Even their… Read More ›
PRE-SIHH 2016: Panerai PAM 655
Hot on the heels of their manual-wind P.1000 Radiomir 1940 models (PAM 574, PAM 575, PAM620) launched at Watches & Wonders 2015, Panerai is continuing its run of 42mm timepieces with the annoucement of a new Radiomir 1940 3 Days Automatic… Read More ›
VACHERON CONSTANTIN : Historiques Cornes de vache 1955
One of my favourite releases of 2015 has been from Vacheron Constantin – the Historiques Cornes de vache 1955 chronograph. Given that I saw it during the same few days (in Hong Kong) as I did the A.Lange & Söhne… Read More ›
BAUME & MERCIER : Shelby Capeland piece unique for charity
For those of you who follow me on Instagram you may have seen the photo above that I posted from Hong Kong during Watches & Wonders 2015 of a Shelby Capeland that looked rather markedly different from the ones I wrote… Read More ›
PHOTOS : Jaeger LeCoultre Hybris Artistica Duomètre Sphérotourbillon pocket watch
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 ›
NEW : Bulova’s new ‘moon watch’ re-edition
In October 2015 a Florida businessman paid a staggering USD1.625 million for Apollo 15 commander David Scott’s Bulova that he wore on the third of his 1971 moonwalks, believed to be the most-ever paid for an astronaut-owned artifact. In a… Read More ›
PHOTOS : Roger Dubuis Much More Japanese Tarot
Nowadays when we think of Roger Dubuis we visualise slightly outrageous watches involving spiders, rubber and diamonds bezels, and half a million dollar pocket watches. However, if we go just a few years back we are reminded that they put… Read More ›
PHOTOS : A.Lange & Söhne 1815 Boutique-only Chronograph
Officially launched at Watches & Wonders 2015, today’s stunning Pulsometer chronograph from A.Lange & Söhne may look familiar. Their 1815 chronograph on which this is based, and with which it shares the same manual-wind Calibre 951.5 movement has, since its… Read More ›
BAUME & MERCIER : Jade Promesse
If we go back a bit over a year ago to Watches & Wonders 2014 Baume & Mercier launched a special edition of their sucessful Promesse line, with red lacquer, to mark the occasion. This year they followed up with… Read More ›
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