You may have been thinking that there could not possibly be any more blue perpetual calendars this year, but you would have been wrong. We are sharing another one with you today not just to illustrate this small 2019 trend,… Read More ›
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NEW : Chopard L.U.C Flying T Twin Baguette
The 72nd Festival de Cannes, aka the Cannes International Film Festival, has just finished. Chopard, an official partner of the film festival since 1998, is the brand which more than any other, is featured adorning attendees and nominees. To mark… Read More ›
A. LANGE & SÖHNE : Datograph Perpetual Tourbillon
In 2016, Lange launched the Datograph Perpetual Tourbillon. The ‘Datograph’ of the name refers to a flyback chronograph with a jumping minute counter and the Lange outsize date, the ‘Perpetual’ means a perpetual calendar with jumping displays combined with a… Read More ›
H. MOSER & CIE. : Watch Concept Black Minute Repeater
When H.Moser & Cie released the first Swiss Alp watch it was a flashpoint for discussions about the brand. As a bit of marketing, it was ingenious, but over the last couple of years they have shown that it was… Read More ›
SIHH 2019: Girard Perregaux Cat’s Eye Aventurine
With most people focused on releases from the other members of the Girard-Perregaux watch stable every year, it’s easy to overlook the less headline-grabbing but nonetheless popular, Cat’s Eye, collection. This year the brand launched three new additions to the… Read More ›
SIHH 2019 : Audemars Piguet’s new CODE 11:59
Sometimes, new watches can be highly divisive, but seldom has an ‘establishment’ brand’s new collection been subjected to such a rapid, visceral, and almost universal round of negativity at its launch. What happens when the time ticks over from 11:59… Read More ›
SIHH 2019 : Meteorite comes to Piaget’s Altiplano
At next week’s SIHH Piaget will present three additions to their Altiplano collection family, one of which features a dial material familiar to some of you, meteorite (see here for a sister brand’s past offering, this link for another one… Read More ›
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 ›
H. MOSER & CIE : new Pioneer Tourbillon
H.Moser & Cie have continued to expand their Pioneer collection with the introduction of a new limited edition (flying) tourbillon model. Beneath a domed sapphire crystal is the familiar Moser midnight-blue fumé dial, with sunburst pattern. The indices and hour… Read More ›
VACHERON CONSTANTIN : Abbey Road Studios partnership and the new Fiftysix Tourbillon
This week, Vacheron Constantin launched a new addition to their Fiftysix Collection at London’s famed Abbey Road Studios, a location chosen because of the simultaneous announcement that they are now the official time partner for the Studios. This is not… Read More ›
