Panerai has announced a new addition to their popular Submersible line – the PAM389, aka the Luminor Submersible 1950 Amagnetic 3 Days Automatic Titanio. A variant of the PAM305 Luminor Submersible 1950, the PAM389’s case has a 40,000 A/m (ampere… Read More ›
A lot happened at IWC in 1944. An American squadron bombed them on April 1 during an air raid on Schaffhausen, there was the appearance of IWC’s first W.W.W. (Watch. Wrist. Waterproof) watches for the British Army, and also the… Read More ›
Produced by Heuer Leonidas S.A. in the late 1960s and early 1970s for the West German Air Force (Budeswehr), these flyback chronographs using Valjoux 22/ 222/ 230 movements known as ‘Heuer Bunds’ are amongst some of the most collectible and… Read More ›
In the book collecting world, ‘association copies’ often command higher prices, especially if a gift from a notable author to a similarly notable (and perhaps literary) recipient. In the watch world this concept currently seems most commonly manifested via the… Read More ›
Sometimes it feels as though the world of high-end Seikos is a niche ‘connoisseurs’ club where the assumption is that, by and large, the average watch enthusiast (let alone the average punter) has no idea of the existence of these… Read More ›
The first of the U-Boat U-42 limited edition series was a clearly-not-for-the-average person sized 53mm giant (itself a ‘reduced version’ of a mindbogglingly sized 65mm 29 piece LE called the U-1942) based on a diver’s watch designed in 1942 by… Read More ›
Acknowledged as a design genius, Max Bill (22 December 1908 – 9 December 1994) was a Swiss architect, artist, sculptor, painter, typographer, industrial and graphic designer. A pupil of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, he was famed for the clarity and… Read More ›
Well. We all know about the famous Swiss Federal Railway (SBB) clock and its more retail manifestation in Mondaine, but apparently Apple doesn’t. The new look of their iPad clock which came with iOS6 bears, as you can see, a… Read More ›
I’m going to go out on a rather safe limb and suggest that there’s a strong correlation between those who know of Ennebi and Panerai owners (well, Paneristi, to be honest), and that second to them, the brand is then… Read More ›
The first ‘adult luxury watch’ that I desired was a Baume et Mercier. I was in my early-mid teens, and can’t remember where or when I first saw a photo of it, but I do remember that I saw it… Read More ›
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