At Watches & Wonders 2021 Carl F. Bucherer premiered the Manero Minute Repeater Symphony, the horological centrepiece of their relationship with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Alongside this partnership, Swedish composer Lisa Streich wrote a piece entitled “PERIPHERY”, commissioned by the… Read More ›
Watches, like other inanimate objects, are inherently neutral. Sizing, decoration – these are all a product of socio-cultural and historical influences, and preferences similarly the subjective mix of time, place, and individual. It’s why there are trends, why which watches… Read More ›
At the beginning of this month we wrote about the new limited edition1858 Split Second Chronograph Limited Edition 18 in “Lime Gold” from Montblanc. It turns out that this was not to be the only new chronograph they would announce… Read More ›
It was only last month that we covered the new Blancpain Tribute to Fifty Fathoms No Rad, a limited edition re-interpretation of the 1960s’ Fifty Fathoms “no radiations” with its immediately recognisable symbol. We mentioned the simultaneous release of a… Read More ›
The L.U.C Perpetual Chrono is a model that has made appearances in the Chopard lineup before, but in white gold, rose gold, and platinum forms. Now, it comes in a new grade 5 titanium case. The dial is solid gold,… Read More ›
The perpetual calendar complication has found its way into a many different IWC models since it was developed by Kurt Klaus in the 1980s. In the Big Pilot collection family, into which it made its first appearance in 2006 (a… Read More ›
Last year there had been some talk in the air about Panerai doing something very interesting in terms of sustainability and recycled material, and so it has come to be. If you read ‘LAB-ID’ you know that it’s going to… Read More ›
Think of today’s post as running in parallel to a post from last year about Triwa’s watches made from recycled plastic. Parallel because it is not about using recycled material to make watches, but it is about Swatch deciding to… Read More ›
Colour is again the theme of this post about Watches & Wonders 2021 releases, but manifested in a very different manner to the previous post. For the newly launched Electro Capsule Collection Arnaud Chastaingt, Chanel’s Director of the Studio de… Read More ›
The colours one associates with Zenith Defys tend to be, by and large, more muted in tone – greys, blues, white, black, silver, perhaps a foray into green or purple. They aren’t averse to colour, they’ve just not gone ‘all… Read More ›
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