It is always an interesting experience visiting Roger Dubuis at the pka SIHH now Watches & Wonders Geneva, and with this year’s having been purely digital in form, it’s even more of a shame that we did not have the… Read More ›
Watch Profile
NEW: Zenith Chronomaster Revival ‘Shadow’
Watch brands love an ‘origin story’, and if you can combine one with a famous movement and words like ‘prototype’ and variations on the theme of ‘found in a dusty box in the corner of a hidden room discovered when… Read More ›
WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020: Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Concept
Well they did it. At the SIHH 2018, along with the Altiplano Ultimate Automatic 910P, Piaget unveiled the Altiplano Ultimate Concept, the thinnest mechanical watch in the world. The big question was, of course, whether it would just remain just… Read More ›
WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020: A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk Minute Repeater White Gold
Although launched by A. Lange & Söhne five years ago, the Zeitwerk Minute Repeater, the first wristwatch that combined a mechanical jump hour with a decimal repeater, more than retains its originality and achievement. Now, as a follow up to… Read More ›
WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020: Baume & Mercier’s new Baumatic small complications
At the SIHH 2018 Baume & Mercier launched a surprise in the form of the Baumatic Chronometer, a handsome back-to-basics dress watch powered by the brand’s first manufacture movement, featuring a 5 day power reserve, COSC certification, and anti-magnetic up… Read More ›
WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020: IWC Portugieser Automatic 40 (Ref. 3583)
Sometimes, it is the simple watches that can get a lot of people excited. Amidst the many new releases in IWC’s year of the ‘Port’ is the new Portugieser Automatic 40 – the revisiting of a much loved classic with… Read More ›
WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020: Vacheron Constantin “La Musique du Temps®” Les Cabinotiers – the singing birds
Over the past couple of months there has been widespread coverage of how the natural world has (re) emerged as humans have retreated indoors, whether it be in the form of flora, fauna, or the sight of stars or mountain… Read More ›
WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020: illuminating 70 years of the Panerai Luminor
At 0200 on the 25th of April 2020 Sydney time the first Watches & Wonders digital fair opened its press portal, at an hour which was probably better suited to other time zones. In taking a look at it at… Read More ›
WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020: Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso One Red Wine
As a continuation of the nod-to-Geneva Reverso theme this post is about a new but familiar new model launched this week in the same city. One of the hits of last year, and whose popularity went beyond its attention-grabbing hue… Read More ›
WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020: Cartier’s new Maillon de Cartier collection
Watches & Wonders Geneva 2020 has had to go digital this year, but a major participating brand, Cartier, have decided to have their own dedicated website as well as participating in the fair’s site. The site, called ‘Digital Watchmaking Encounters’,… Read More ›
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