This year, Cartier has released two new limited edition Métiers d’Art watches featuring the arts of marquetry, enamelling, miniature painting, and gem-setting to highlight its ‘house mascot’, the panthère. Meet the new Ronde Louis Cartier Straw and Gold Marquetry, and… Read More ›
SIHH/ Watches & Wonders GVA 2020
NEW: IWC Portugieser Tourbillon Retrograde Chronograph
Along with the simplicity of the new Portugieser Automatic launched by IWC this ‘year of the Port’, at the other end of the spectrum is a multi-complication – the new Portugieser Tourbillon Retrograde Chronograph. This is along a similar thematic… Read More ›
NEW: Panerai Luminor Marina Fibratech PAM01663
In an earlier post about Officine Panerai’s commemoration of 70 years of the Luminor, I mentioned a new composite material making its debut – Fibratech™ , a basalt-fibre composite created to be light (it is 70% lighter than steel and… Read More ›
NEW: Parmigiani Tonda Tondagraphe Tourbillon
Following on from the previous post about a new model combining a chronograph and a calendar function, today’s post it is also about a newly announced piece combining a chronograph with other complications – in this case, with a tourbillon…. Read More ›
NEW: Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Chronograph Calendar and a Master Control update
Named for the fact that it was the first of Jaeger-LeCoultre’s collections to have the ‘1000 Hours Control’ certification, the longstanding Master Control collection is getting some attention this year with newly tweaked Date, Calendar, and Geographic models, plus the… Read More ›
WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020: Vacheron Constantin Fiftysix® Sepia
Two years after the collection’s launch, and after the Fiftysix® ventured into petrol blue at last year’s SIHH, this year sees another colour being added to mix – a dark brown duo in 40mm-sized 18 kt 5N pink gold cases… Read More ›
WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020: Roger Dubuis Excalibur ‘Diabolus in Machina’
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 ›
WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020: Montblanc 1858 Monopusher Chronograph & 24H
There has been an interesting level of confidence about direction from Montblanc in recent years. It has been as though they decided on some clear collection identities and are settling in to steadily expand each of these. The vintage-inspired 1858… 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: 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 ›