For November 2014, presents the opportunity for our audience to win a Maurice Lacroix Pontos S Diver watch. Maurice Lacroix is also an official partner of Movember this month, with some special limited edition watches based on the Pontos S. editors are big fans of this modern yet timeless diver which earned a spot in our list of the Top 10 Watches Of Baselworld 2013. We went on to discuss the Pontos S watch in more detail hands-on here. In steel and 43mm wide, the Maurice Lacroix Pontos S Dive [...]
This is the Longines?Conquest GMT, reference L3.687.4.566. At first glance, it looks like one of many GMTs bearing the ETA 2893 movement, but then you notice that date window. Look at where it is on the dial, all the way at the right edge (so this is something different):That tells you the size of the movement matches the dial, and this watch has a 34mm dial. The 2893 is 11.5 ligne, or about 25mm. Once you start looking, youll notice that most large watches have a date window more towards the ce [...]
As oddly managed as the company is, the historic Swiss brand?Breguet remains one of my favorite high-end watchmakers. The company has actually done something that most other brands have attempted and failed: produce a very modern mechanical wristwatch with an aesthetic and decorative spirit that is entirely classic. This blend of looking both forwards and backwards is a marketing dream of many luxury watch brands, and its one that Breguet stubbornly holds on to even during experiments with new w [...]
Swiss Parmigiani easily impressed the team at SIHH 2016 when they passively debuted before our eyes their brand new in-house-made and totally integrated split-seconds chronograph movement known as the caliber PF361. Announced on the date of the brands 20th anniversary after being launched in 1996, featuring the personality of watchmaker Michel Parmigiani, the new-for-2016 Parmigiani Tonda Chronor Anniversaire watch is a wonderful offering that will inspire interest even in those who havent prev [...]
I had two options: a) write about the morbidly random Fifty Fathoms Moonphase-that appears to have disappeared from the internet as we know it and so, on a dark and gloomy day, I apparently will have to write it up anyway; or b) discuss the?Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Quantieme Annuel, hoping that Id like it a bit more. The common theme shared by the two is Blancpain lifting totally-non-dive-watch-specific complications into the Fifty Fathoms line, the daddy of all dive watches.All image [...]
In reference to the 1979 Piaget Polo, Piaget has just launched their new Polo S line with five new watches at an event in New York. The Piaget Polos S collection includes a trio of three-handers and a couple chronographs. These steel sport watches are Piagets play at a young, casual audience looking for an easy wearing and versatile watch for everyday wear. While they arent per se cheap, they are more accessibly priced for the brand which is part of a larger necessary trend among watch brands l [...]
Introduced in 2017, the Bell Ross BR 03-92 Diver is not the brands first dive watch, but it is the first dive watch in their iconic square case. It is, in my opinion, a great success in balancing various design elements and themes as well as boldness and wearability. Balance is a word that I kept returning to when considering different aspects of the Bell Ross BR 03-92 Diver. The result is a solid, refined dive watch with a look and character quite unlike any other I know of, and it is just pl [...]
The Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon Watch is one of the most famous names in the modern Patek Philippe watch catalog. The over $1 million watch is rare, beautiful, and exotic even by Patek Philippe standards. One of the watches just set a record fetching $1.2 million at auction, by far the highest any watch has gone for at auction in this economy.One of the things I love is the relief engraved sides of the watch that display stylized Patek Philippe Calatrava Crosses very nice. So why does ev [...]
Over the decades, Breitling has burned a wide variety of evocative names into the minds of watch enthusiasts everywhere. The Navitimer, the Superocean, the Aerospace, Breitling for Bentley, and more have all left marks on the industry, but one of Breitlings most famous mid-century product lines has been absent from its current lineup for far too long. The Top Time was one of Breitlings sportiest, most youth-oriented models in the 1960s, helping to shape the sports watch landscape during a time o [...]
For 2021 the major new omega watch release of interest to watch hobbyists will be this updated omega Oyster Perpetual Explorer II know as the reference 226570. It directly replaces the outgoing omega Explorer II 216570 keeping the same 42mm wide form factor but offering many minor exterior upgrades as well as a modern-generation in-house made omega automatic GMT movement.The omega Oyster Perpetual Explorer II began life as a combination between the omega Explorer and the GMT-Master II. Accordin [...]
It is really about time Corum returned the popular Bubble watch a timepiece collection that originally came out in the year 2000 and served a major modern role in the brands history. Eventually, the Corum Bubble watch collection was discontinued, probably because Corum started to go a bit nuts with some silly limited edition models that, looking back today, are pretty darn cool. You may recall back in 2008, when featured a collection of limited edition Corum Bubble watches that were extremely [...]
At SIHH 2014, Cartier presented a number of?new pieces that were highly?impressive from a technical point of view-and one?of my personal favorites that follows that heritage in its own interesting way is the Cartier Rotonde?de Cartier Tourbillon Chronograph.?With SIHH 2015?coming up soon,?it is a good time to revisit this piece and perhaps prepare ourselves a little bit as to what we are likely going to see from the brand in the upcoming year.For the last couple of years, Cartier has stepped up [...]
This month on you have a chance to win an automatic mechanical Hamilton Khaki Pilot Day Date watch, part of Hamiltons new collection of aviator-style watches. Hamilton has a long history in the production of aviation timepieces and they keep this tradition alive today with the various models in the Khaki Pilot collection. You can read more about Hamiltons relationship with aviation here.? The Hamilton Khaki Pilot Day Date comes in a 42mm wide steel case with either a silver or black dial, and o [...]
Did you know the Master Compressor was dead?! Now that I have your attention, let me begin this review with the lines I originally wrote, just before visiting JLCs official website to check what was up (or down) in their mens section. Before that shocking news, this is how I originally wanted to start: after all that palaver?here, but also here,?I decided to put my money where my mouth is and buy myself a Jaeger-LeCoultre that I not only liked, but that was of the breed I have been seeing killed [...]
Last year in 2013, Audemars Piguet inaugurated its first Art Basel show. The storied Swiss watch maker began its initial five year contract with the world-renowned art industry event whose conventions take place in cities such as Miami and Hong Kong. Nevertheless, Art Basel began in the city of Basel, Switzerland, which also happens to be the longstanding home of Baselworld-the premier annual watch and jewelry show those of us in the watch industry regularly attend. Art Basel continues to hold a [...]
It is hard to begin a review of a watch like this. There is just so much to say, and I dont know where to begin. So many elements of the watch and its history merit discussion and I cant cover it all. Ill do my best, and am very excited to present to you a hands-on review of a very special watch.This is the Bulgari (Bvlgari) GG Gefica Hunter GMT Moon Phase watch. It is a limited edition model based on the original Gefica as designed by Gerald Genta under his eponymous brand. The Gefica family b [...]
During Geneva Watch Week in January of 2018, I met with Hublot to see this new blue ceramic version of the Big Bang Meca-10 watch (hands-on here featuring the collections original 2016 release). This is one of the more interesting watch collector oriented versions of the Big Bang currently offered today, and writing about it gives me an opportunity to share an interesting story about the Hublot Meca-10 collection.A few months ago I found myself with some time to kill while visiting the Hublot ma [...]
Its no secret that watch enthusiasts tend to have a love for Grand Seiko that Ive always likened to that of an indie music snobs fondness of an obscure band thats loved by their peers but relatively unknown to the masses (any old Broken Social Scene fans out there?). Grand Seiko watches are exceptionally made and the epitome of stealth wealth in a lot of ways. Now, things are changing with Seiko putting an increasing importance on their luxury watches as part of their broader strategy in a chang [...]
Please allow me to begin this hands-on look at the all-new?Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Gyrotourbillon on a personal note. While cool, fascinating, and technically impressive modifications, twists, and turns on the evergreen tourbillon mechanism have?come and gone, the Gyrotourbillon has always been one of my absolute favorites of them all. So much so, that I wrote my first ever watch article about the Jaeger-LeCoultre Gyrotourbillon I and II. Yet, despite having attended my fair share of wa [...]
Despite the latest?technical breakthroughs in forging new materials, creating new in-house movement designs, or manufacturing rugged watches for ingenieurs, the general appeal?of simple and refined dress watches is something no?luxury brand can ignore. In recent years, IWC has been busy?restyling its Portuguese Chronograph (review here) and Aquatimer (debut article here)?collections, and now, it appears, the time has come to offer something pure and classical.?So pure and classical, that IWC dec [...]