In 2019 A. Lange & Söhne launched their first (manually-wound) luxury sports watch called the ODYSSEUS, which didn’t just introduce bracelets to a brand not known for them, but also brought a production stainless steel watch into the brand. Now,… Read More ›
Watches & Wonders Geneva 2023
HANDS-ON: Angelus x Massena LAB Medical Chronograph Limited Edition
The Angelus x Massena LAB Medical Chronograph (part of the new La Fabrique collection) is, as they say, a ‘collectors’ watch’. What do I mean by that? Well it’s a nod back to some 1960s medically-oriented watches for which the… Read More ›
WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: Oris ProPilot X Kermit Edition
There was no missing the star of the Oris show in Geneva, with Kermit taking pride of place for the unexpected Oris and Kermit ‘partnership’, as it were. Why Kermit? Well Oris tells us that it’s in part because of… Read More ›
WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: IWC Ingenieur Automatic 40
IWC is revisiting Gérald Genta’s eternal Ingenieur this year, with four new models of the Automatic 40 launched in Geneva. This latest generation of ‘Inges’ takes inspiration from Gérald Genta’s Ingenieur SL of 1976, which had a screw-on bezel with… Read More ›
WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: Cartier Santos Dumont Squelette
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 ›
WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Chronograph
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 ›
WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: Chronoswiss Delphis Oracle
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 ›
WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: Tudor Black Bay GMT
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 ›
WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: Grand Seiko Masterpiece Collection SBGZ009 Spring Drive Limited Edition
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 ›
WATCHES & WONDERS 2023: Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Retrograde Day-Date
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 ›