Hands-on – Minase Five Windows Masterpieces, Displaying Japanese Artistic Crafts

Switzerland is usually the country that comes to mind when you think about luxury watches decorated with artistic crafts. However, decorative techniques applied in watchmaking aren’t just reserved for Swiss makers. Japan is a land of watchmaking and of exquisite traditional craftsmanship. So, it is no surprise for a brand like Minase to display superb […]

4 years ago

Introducing – Laurent Ferrier Galet Annual Calendar “Vintage” with Opaline Yellow Gold Dial

After a really pleasant autumnal version with rose gold/salmon dial, Laurent Ferrier now launches a special version of the Galet Annual Calendar with a warm champagne/sand/yellow gold (chose your prefered name) dial designed to evoke the stylish vintage watches of the 1950s. Sophisticated and user-friendly, the new Laurent Ferrier Galet Annual Calendar “Vintage” is limited to […]

4 years ago

Introducing – HYT H1.0 Black, the MR PORTER Limited Edition

As MR PORTER ramps up its watch offering, the online retailer for men’s luxury fashion has been releasing several limited-edition watches. The latest exclusive release is a limited-edition watch with HYT, the independent watchmaker specialized in fluidic indication of the time. Let’s take a closer look at this bold full-black model. Since 2012, HYT stands […]

4 years ago

Hands-on – Schwarz Etienne Roswell Irreversible

Launched in 2015, the Roswell collection was inspired by the legendary New Mexico UFO mystery. With its case design featuring rounded dynamic curves, as well as modernly designed and finished dials, it is the most surprising of the brand’s collections. But there’s more to this watch, as with all Schwarz Etienne watches. Indeed, this piece […]

4 years ago

Video – Fred Dingemans of d.m.h on Making his Own Mand-Made Watches

More than ten years ago Fred Dingemans started making watches, in the shed in his garden, using a self-restored lathe that has an interesting history. Since Fred limits his production to a maximum of twenty-four watches a year, the waiting list for one of his watches exceeds twelve months and I’d be fair to state that his watches are quite rare. Every watch is first designed with the client and subsequently build entirely in Fred’s atelier; a process that he shares with the client. Many years after my first visit to Fred Dingemans, we went back with the video crew, to film how Fred makes his watches.

4 years ago

Video – Fred Dingemans of d.m.h on Making his Own Hand-Made Watches

More than ten years ago Fred Dingemans started making watches, in the shed in his garden, using a self-restored lathe that has an interesting history. Since Fred limits his production to a maximum of twenty-four watches a year, the waiting list for one of his watches exceeds twelve months and I’d be fair to state that his watches are quite rare. Every watch is first designed with the client and subsequently build entirely in Fred’s atelier; a process that he shares with the client. Many years after my first visit to Fred Dingemans, we went back with the video crew, to film how Fred makes his watches.

4 years ago

Introducing – Linde Werdelin Spidolite Titanium Arktis Blue & Summit Green

Bold, technical, complex… There are multiple adjectives that can be used to describe a Linde Werdelin Spidolite, but conformist is certainly not one of them. Since the creation of the brand and after multiple developments, LW remains consistent in its design, defined by originally shaped cases and aggressive lines. The Spidolite, a watch inspired by […]

4 years ago

Introducing – MB&F Legacy Machine Perpetual, now in Yellow Gold

Developed with watchmaker Stephen McDonnell in 2015, the astonishing Legacy Machine Perpetual turned conventional perpetual calendar movements upside down and inside out. Reinventing the QP complication from scratch, with a default 28-day month and a “mechanical processor”, McDonnell’s novel technology eliminates the drawbacks and fragility of conventional QPs and impressed the jury of the GPHG […]

4 years ago