In 2018 IWC announced a number of pieces in partnership with the U.S. Navy’s Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program (SFTI) that were formally launched at the SIHH 2019. The collection also saw the first appearance of Ceratanium® in their Pilot’s… Read More ›
watches
NEW: MB&F LM Perpetual EVO
Early this year MB&F released an 18k yellow gold variant of their Legacy Machine (LM) Perpetual, a watch originally launched in 2015 in two editions of twenty-five pieces each in 18k 5N+ red gold and Platinum 950 but which expanded… Read More ›
NEW: Audemars Piguet CODE 11.59 Grande Sonnerie Carillon Supersonnerie
It was only two months ago that we covered the new CODE 11.59 Flying Tourbillon Flyback Chronograph, but complications in this collection aren’t done for the year, with Audemars Piguet’s announcement of the new (very) limited CODE 11.59 Grand Sonnerie… Read More ›
NEW: Omega Speedmaster ‘Silver Snoopy Award’ 50th Anniversary
We all know the background. Omega’s relationship with NASA dates back to 1965, when the Speedmaster was declared “flight qualified for all manned space missions”. It went (literally) upwards and onwards from there. The relationship between Snoopy and things lunar… Read More ›
NEW: Seiko Astron GPS Solar Kintaro Hattori 160th Anniversary Limited Edition
Commemorative editions seem to be an increasingly popular aspect of modern watch brands, and ones marking dates associated with founders is a popular sub category within this. Seiko has created a special edition Astron GPS Solar watch to mark 160… Read More ›
INDUSTRY NEWS: Swatch Group shut down some systems after cyberattack
The Swatch Group confirmed the report by Swiss news agency AWP that they had been subject to a cyberattack over the past weekend, stating that they had shut down some of their systems, affecting some (unidentified) operations, as a precautionary… Read More ›
NEW: Vacheron Constantin Heures Créatives Heure Romantique
In 2015 Vacheron Constantin launched the Heures Créatives collection, composed at the time of four watches (three – two of which were strap/ bracelets of the same model – with pavé diamond dials, and one with a white mother-of-pearl dial)… Read More ›
NEW: Glashütte Original Alfred Helwig Tourbillon 1920 Limited Edition
We have already mentioned that this year the town of this town Glashütte is celebrating 175 years of watchmaking, the date based on when Ferdinand Adolph Lange established his watchmaking business there in 1845. Glashütte is also home to the… Read More ›
NEW: Omega Seamaster Diver 300m Chronograph Titanium Tantalum Sedna™ Gold
Today we are looking at another new ‘mixed metal/ material’ release, following on from Panerai’s new model which combines their proprietary Goldtech™ and Carbotech™. As the name points out, this new Seamaster dive watch combines titanium with tantalum and Omega’s… Read More ›
NEW: HYT FLOW
In 2017 HYT launched the H4 Neo, a manually-wound watch with a light source (module) that could be activated on demand. A LED-lit version of the H4, it was an unexpected diversion for a brand known for its fluid timekeeping…. Read More ›