Last year Arnold & Son (owned by the Citizen Group) added to its Instrument Collection a watch they said was inspired by the marine chronometers of John Arnold (the man after which the brand is named) – a visually engaging… Read More ›
GMT/ dual/ worldtimer
SIHH 2019: IWC to debut new Pilot collection
With over eighty years of history behind this collection family for many watch lovers, and indeed arguably for the broader public, IWC has been synonymous with pilots’ watches. This is especially the case for their historical fliegers, but their modern… Read More ›
CARTIER : A new time for the Rotonde
At Watches & Wonders 2014 Cartier launched a whopping sixteen new novelties and two new movements, mostly additions to existing collection lines, and many of which were presented by Carole Forestier-Kasapi, Head of Fine Watchmaking. Today’s post is about one… Read More ›
IWC : Revisiting Portofino
Thirty years after the model was first launched, Watches & Wonders 2014 saw the (re) launch, by IWC of the Portofino Midsize Collection. Never ones to do anything by half measures, the launch was done in typical IWC fashion complete… Read More ›
PEPSI MAX : the 2014 Rolex GMT-Master II
The good news from Rolex at Baselworld 2014 was that there was a Pepsi bezel for the 2014 GMT-Master II. The bad news was that Rolex decided to use it on a 18 carat white gold version first, rendering it… Read More ›
NEW MODEL : Panerai PAM533 Luminor 1950 10 Days GMT
As well as their releases at SIHH 2014 earlier this year, Officine Panerai recently announced the addition of a new model to the 2014 lineup, the PAM533 Luminor 10 Days GMT, which I had the opportunity to look at in… Read More ›
BASELWORLD 2013 : H.Moser & Cie’s Nomad Dual Time
After a look at Jaquet Droz’s so-minimalist-you-could-blink-and-not-realise-what-you-were-looking-at Grande Heure GMT, today is about another pared back dual time zone watch that was launched at Baselworld 2013 – the Nomad from H.Moser & Cie. Another elegant interpretation of a two time… Read More ›