As mentioned earlier, 2015 is Jaeger-LeCoultre’s 85th birthday celebration for their beloved Reverso models, with a plethora of models in various sizes and iterations to suit all (or almost all) tastes. Today’s photos are of one of the more complicated… Read More ›
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NEW : Glashütte Original Senator Blue Boutique Editions
Glashütte Original has launched two new versions of two existing watches, the Senator Perpetual Calendar and the Senator Panorama Date Moon Phase. Both models are the same 40mm polished stainless steel case but what is special is the new dial… Read More ›
PHOTOS : Piaget Gouverneur Tourbillon
As this point, Australia is not a market with a Piaget boutique, and thus it is difficult for locals to be able to see some of their more complicated and ‘haute’ pieces, although there is obviously nothing stopping someone from… Read More ›
VACHERON CONSTANTIN : a record-breaking 57 complication pocket watch
Eight years, three master watchmakers, fifty-seven complications, 2826 parts, ten patents, ten ‘firsts’, 957grams, 98mm in size, one reference number (Ref. 57260). Oh, and one hashtag, of course. Venerable house of horology or not, Vacheron Constantin’s 260th birthday is in… Read More ›
EVENT : Jaeger-LeCoultre SIHH 2015 Sydney Collectors’ Dinners
A couple of years ago Jaeger-LeCoultre Australia started hosting annual ‘collectors’ dinners’ in Sydney and Melbourne to showcase some of the year’s SIHH novelties. What started off as a single function in each city has grown. Last year there were… Read More ›
VACHERON CONSTANTIN : Le Chronograph dans le Temps
For those who are familiar with Geneva one of the horological points of interest, as it were, is the building that houses Vacheron Constantin on the Quai d l’Ile, its location also the name of one of their watch collections…. Read More ›
JAEGER-LECOULTRE : the Master goes black
Although not their most glamorous or technically impressive pieces, two new releases by Jaeger-LeCoultre to their Master range at SIHH 2015 may end up being their most widely talked about. Why? Because they are new versions of two of the… Read More ›
PRE-SIHH 2015 : Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Master Calendar gets a meteorite dial
The night skies of the Vallée de Joux wherein Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Manufacture lies forms the inspiration not only of their new calendar watches to be launched at SIHH 2015 but of a broader thematic approach to the incoming year’s releases. But… Read More ›
EVENT : Grand Finals weekend, Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo 2014
You may have heard of or seen the Blancpain Super Trofeo watches and be aware of Blancpain’s support of motorsports, but perhaps you may not be totally across about what the Super Trofeo is. I confess that I wasn’t as… 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 ›