One of the highlights from Cartier at Watches & Wonders 2023 was their introduction of a new specially developed automatic Calibre 9629 MC skeleton (squelette) movement, used for a new Santos Dumont. Measuring 31.4mm x 43.5mm with a thickness of… Read More ›
This year’s Watches & Wonders 2023 was all about the Reverso for Jaeger Le Coultre, with a number of Tribute models being a particular highlight. Of these, one is the new Reverso Tribute Chronograph, a successor to a 1990s model…. Read More ›
Chronoswiss’ Delphis model is one that I haven’t thought about for a long time. At one point this design, with three forms of display in a single timepiece – digital hour, retrograde minutes, and analogue seconds, was ‘the’ dress watch… Read More ›
Tudor has introduced light-dialled version of its Black Bay GMT – the Ref. 79830RB. It is ‘light’ not ‘white’, because the curved dial is opaline, with a matte white-grey silvery finish applied to the dial. It joins its black dial… Read More ›
Grand Seiko’s Masterpiece Collection is in a league of its own within the Seiko ecosystem, and this new SBZ009 Spring Drive Limited Edition is a hand-engraved timepiece inspired, as many Grand Seikos are, by the passing seasons of forests and… Read More ›
Retrogrades are your friend. They’re my friend, too. Which is just as well, because Vacheron Constantin are going back and giving this alternative time display, some time in the sunlight. Meet the new Patrimony Retrograde Day-Date (aka Reference 4000U/000P-H003), which… Read More ›
Chopard’s Alpine Eagle continues to cement its place in the modern Chopard pantheon and the luxury sports watch segment, with L.U.C. calibres inside. Now, joining the collection family is not a complication but an ultra-thin model (8mm thick) that is… Read More ›
It’s the year of the Radiomir for Panerai at Watches & Wonders 2023, with six new models to that collection family, ranging from “8 Giorni” to an annual calendar. No big surprise but my favourite, and the subject of this… Read More ›
You may recall the last time we mentioned one of the results of the partnership between Girard-Perregaux and Aston Martin – the Laureato Chronograph Aston Martin edition. That was a piece that would fall under the ‘expected model’ category of… Read More ›
Vulcain has dipped into its heritage before for modern pieces, and today, the latest ‘new heritage’ piece is a revival of a 1970s Chronographs. The new Chronograph 1970s Hand-Wound is not their first historically oriented chronograph, with the 50s Presidents… Read More ›
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