IWC celebrates 75 years of the Mark series with a silver-dialled Mark XX

There’s no doubt that IWC is one of the most important players in the pilot’s watch game. Without digging too deep, numerous legendary models have emerged, from the very first Mark 11 issued to the RAF in 1948 to the latest Big Pilot’s Perpetual Calendar. It is that very first Mark-series watch that is being … Continued

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2 years ago

HANDS-ON: The Seiko 5 Sports retro colour collection

With its incredibly expansive catalogue of references and huge production numbers, the original Seiko 5 collection still feels like a pillar of the watchmaking landscape. Despite a complete refresh of the series, discontinuing all existing models in 2019 and starting from scratch, the remaining stock usually still offers fantastic value and cool designs. For that … Continued

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2 years ago

HANDS-ON: The Depancel Serie-R 5th Anniversary

Five years is a drop in the ocean for a heritage watchmaker, but for a brand like Depancel the wooden anniversary is truly significant. The spirit of racing runs through them much deeper than their short existence may suggest, and they manage to stand out in a truly flooded market of motoring-inspired watches. Their best … Continued

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2 years ago

New dials and dimensions for the King Seiko 110th Anniversary

Though the story of Seiko began almost 150 years ago, the first wristwatch wouldn’t come until three decades later, in 1913 with the Seiko Laurel. The brand recently paid homage to that exact piece with a modern re-issue, but the celebrations didn’t stop there. Despite the fact that King Seiko is no longer the brand … Continued

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2 years ago

Urwerk Celebrates 20th Anniversary With UR-T8

By Martin Green
Time flies when having fun! That certainly goes for Urwerk, who celebrates this year its 20th anniversary and does so with the UR-T8 which they launched at the SIHH. The brand has come a long way in those twenty years, creating watches like the UR-103, UR-1001 and the EMC Time-Hunter. A signature feature of many of them are of course the three cone shaped discs indicating both the hour as well as the minutes, brought together by a stroke of genius. Of course, this complication is also present in the UR-T8, because what would a 20th-anniversary piece be without it?

8 years ago

Chopard L.U.C GMT One Rose Gold Released During SalonQP

Chopard L.U.C GMT One Rose Gold A few weeks ago we visited London for a special presentation by Chopard. Their manufacture line, L.U.C, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. For this special occasion the company released two new models; the Chopard L.U.C GMT One and the Chopard L.U.C Time Traveler One. In our previous […]

8 years ago

20 years of Excellence expressed with Three initials: L.U.C.

The second son of Félicien Chopard, Louis-Ulysse Chopard (L.U.C.)was encouraged by his soil-toiling father to pick up the watchmaking trade. Like most Swiss agrarian communities of the day, the farmers practiced a profession of making movement components in the off-seasons and our young prodigy quickly learned that the ones who would most…

8 years ago

Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso: 85 Years an Icon

Birthed in the throes of the Great Depression, Jaeger-LeCoultre celebrated the 85th birthday of the heralded Reverso with a brand new SIHH 2016 collection. Here at the crossroads of yet another global recession, the Reverso brings much needed salve to a weary world as it once did: a follow up edition of the Reverso à Eclipse with a enamelled…

8 years ago