First Look – The New Panerai Luminor Luna Rossa PAM01653 and PAM01654

Panerai strengthens its partnership with the Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli team ahead of the 38th America’s Cup and unveils two new watches that highlight performance-driven engineering and signature design: the Luminor Chrono Flyback Luna Rossa PAM01654 and the Luminor Luna Rossa PAM01653. These models continue a collaboration that began in 2019, when Panerai first joined […]

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First Look – Not Your Average Chronograph, the New MING 20.01 Series 5 (incl. Video)

Horloger MING is not your average brand, just as its latest creation is not your average chronograph. Started by designer and photographer Ming Thein in 2017, the watch collecting community quickly embraced this start-up brand and shot it into the stratosphere. What Ming Thein did, through his experience in the field and keen eye for […]

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Buying Guide – Shopping on a Budget, with 5 Watches Priced Below 1k

Whenever we speak of luxury mechanical watches, the subject of money is understandably never far away. Even amongst the team, we often debate about prices, and are well aware that the vast majority of the watches we cover are out of reach for most people, ourselves included. Not everyone can spend tens of thousands on […]

5 months ago

Introducing – The New SpaceOne WorldTimer is a Radical Take on a Classic Complication

SpaceOne, the forward-looking brand founded by watch-centric entrepreneur Guillaume Laidet (behind the return of Nivada Grenchen) and independent watchmaker Théo Auffret, continues its ambitious trajectory by launching its third model: the SpaceOne WorldTimer. Following the Jumping Hour in 2023 and the Tellurium in 2024, their latest creation, the SpaceOne WorldTimer, pushes the brand’s design and […]

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First Look – The New Bulgari Octo Finissimo Automatic in Sandblasted Yellow Gold

As with almost all the record-breaking watches from the Octo Finissimo collection – and what a collection that is – the inaugural edition of the simpler version, the automatic, was first released in sandblasted titanium. A signature look, to make things clear. Ever since, the watch has been made in multiple variants, including steel models […]

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First Look – The New Amida Digitrend Open Sapphire Reveals All Its Tricks

The retro-futuristic Amida Digitrend is a horological UFO arriving straight from the 1970s. This unique driver’s watch stands out with its digital display read horizontally through an optical inverting prism. The model was brought back with a rather faithful reedition in 2024, retaining the original look and powered by a dedicated jumping hour mechanical movement […]

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First Look – ArtyA’s First Micro-Rotor Calibre and the new Luminity Wavy Collection

ArtyA, the avant-garde, family-run Swiss watchmaker known for its expressive, often unconventional horological creations of its founder Yvan Arpa, introduces the next evolution of its Luminity collection with a significant update: the launch of its first proprietary micro-rotor movement, the calibre AMR-02. Combining a visually open design with chronometric performance, this new collection keeps movement […]

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First Look – The New Maen Manhattan 37mm Ultra-Thin, Smaller but with a Big Impact

Maen, a relatively young brand from Sweden with Dutch roots, has combined two of its popular Manhattan models into a compact and sleek 37mm integrated sports watch that highlights the best of both collections. Based on consumer demand, the current Manhattan 37mm automatic has been slimmed down with an ultra-thin case and hand-wound calibre like […]

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