Unveiled this year, Laurent Ferrier’s Galet Classic Tourbillon Dual was created out of customer demand. Clients expressed a desire to be able to see their tourbillon not just from the (back) movement side, as per their other Galet Classic tourbillons… Read More ›
This year IWC have added a new complication to their Portugieser collection that is also a little familiar. Meet the Portugieser Constant-Force Tourbillon. By ‘familiar’ we are talking a little about familial history from the Portugieser Sidérale Scafusia but mostly of… Read More ›
In 1958 Jaeger-LeCoultre commemorated the International Geophysical Year by creating a robust utilitarian watch that was protected against magnetic fields (600 gauss), shock and water resistant, and extremely accurate. Fitted with Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 478b, the Geophysic chronometer was presented to… Read More ›
You may recall our earlier post about the 1770 Micromégas. It was Manufacture Royale’s first watch containing an automatic in-house calibre and also had another first, a double tourbillons with two different speeds – the left a six second revolution… Read More ›
I have a liking for ‘mystery dials’, and 2017 has brought with it a rather impressive new one from Cartier, who have combined a minute repeater and double tourbillon into such a watch. Not only this but rather intriguingly, it… Read More ›
Last year saw Angelus’ launch of the U20 Ultra-Skeleton Tourbillon (see photo below), a innovative piece using a layer of clear sapphire as its main plate, to which the movement bridges are fastened. This year, launched at Baselworld 2017, Angelus… Read More ›
In January of this year, along with #thewatchnerd team, we paid a visit to De Bethune in Geneva, during which we saw two rather remarkable Milky Way themed watches – the DB25L Milky Way which we covered earlier, and this pièce unique… Read More ›
In many ways Romain Jerome’s DNA Collection best personifies the early years of the brand and the sort of watches for which it gained prominence, with their names reflecting the samples of objects and things that found their way into… Read More ›
Mobility. Movement. The new Mobilis from Louis Moinet is aptly named, with its kaleidoscope dial based on no less than two one-minute flying tourbillons, whose unusual rotation in opposite directions power and thus animate, the kaleidoscope at 12 o’clock. With… Read More ›
This year A. Lange & Söhne’s key piece for SIHH, and the one whose form took the traditional larger-than-life manifestation at the front of the booth, was their newest addition to their “Pour le Mérite” line, a new grande complication… Read More ›
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