With the arrival of Australia and New Zealand’s first brand manager for Zenith also came the offer to test drive a few models. As expected, we jumped at the opportunity. Perhaps not so expected, we have not restricted ourself to… Read More ›
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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 ›
PHOTOS : MB&F Legacy Machine Perpetual
This has been some tenth anniversary for MB&F, with releases such as the HMX and Melchior, but a few weeks ago a rather remarkable watch appeared, the Legacy Machine Perpetual, about which we wrote about here. This time, the ‘Friend’… Read More ›
INTERVIEW : IWC Creative Director Christian Knoop
During Watches and Wonders 2015 I had the opportunity to interview IWC’s Creative Director Mr. Christian Knoop. Amongst the various topics we discussed was one that I’d also asked of Mr. Hannes Pantli about IWC and its branding/ direction, but Q: You… Read More ›
NEW : Tudor Fastrider Black Shield Black
Fast. That’s one way to describe Tudor’s worldwide growth in recent years. As discussed with Bani McSpedden of watch-next.com at the recent launch of the Fastrider Black Shield ‘Black’ held in Sydney by Gregory Jewellers, it really seems as though… Read More ›
PHOTOS : Montblanc Tourbillon Cylindrique Geosphères Night Sky
At SIHH 2015 Montblanc launched the red gold limited edition Tourbillon Cylindrique Geosphères. At Watches & Wonders 2015 in Hong Kong, they launched another limited edition version but this time in white gold. A version that to my mind, is… 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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