We just looked at the new Fortis Flieger F-41 and F-39, which are made from recycled stainless steel, and today’s new offering from Oris is in a similar vein – the new Aquis Date Upcycle has dials made from recycled… Read More ›
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NEW: URWERK UR-100 ELECTRUM
Earlier this year URWERK added the UR-100V Blue Planet to its UR-100 collection, and with the arrival of the second Geneva Watch Days, it has launched another new addition to this family – the UR-100 Electrum. As you can tell… Read More ›
NEW: Fortis Flieger F-41 and F-39 Midnight Blue
Another solid mid range tool watch is the subject of today’s post – meet the new Flieger F-41 and F-29 Midnight Blue, new additions to the Flieger collection launched last year but whose history within the brand goes back to… Read More ›
NEW: Panerai Luminor Perpetual Calendar Goldtech™ and Luminor Perpetual Calendar Platinum™
We have covered quite a few watches from Panerai using their various proprietary –tech materials over the years, and there are two new pieces that have just been added to this material ‘theme’, as it were – the new Luminor… Read More ›
NEWS: Switzerland and employer-mandated COVID-19 vaccination
It has been a couple of months since we did a piece with COVID-19 news from Switzerland, especially regarding public vaccination proof requirements, but given that the global pandemic is nowhere near over, and that the watch industry is continuing… Read More ›
NEW: Bulova Lunar Pilot Chrono Limited Edition
You will no doubt remember Bulova’s release, a handful of years ago, of a re-edition of the watch Apollo 15 commander David Scott’s Bulova that he wore on the third of his 1971 moonwalks. There’s an interesting history behind it,… Read More ›
NEW: A. Lange & Söhne Cabaret Tourbillon Handwerkskunst Limited Edition
A recent new release from A. Lange & Söhne may have slipped under the radar for some, as it is of a new special edition of a model that does not get as much publicity as its siblings Meet the… Read More ›
NEW: Girard-Perregaux Laureato Absolute Ti 230
Girard-Perregaux has launched the new limited edition Laureato Absolute Ti 230 to mark 230 years since Jean-François Bautte, the watchmaker whose horological history was the basis on which the Girard-Perregaux brand claims the 1791 date, signed his first watch. Jean-François… Read More ›
NEW: Fabergé Visionnaire DTZ Dynamist
Fabergé has exapnded their Visionnaire DTZ collection, the original of which I wrote about at the time (it was one of my highlights of 2016), with the new DTZ Dynamist. The launch model won the ‘Travel Time’ category at the… Read More ›
VAN CLEEF & APRELS: Planétarium High Jewelry Timepiece
In 2014 Van Cleef & Arpels launched the stunning Midnight Planétarium Poetic Complication, made in collaboration with astronomical watch specialist Christiaan van der Klaauw. A miniature representation of the movement of Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn around the… Read More ›
