Cuervo y Sobrinos, the only Swiss watch brand with Cuban roots, celebrates Ernest Hemingway, the famous American writer who also developed a strong attachment to the Caribbean island during the last twenty years of his life. Developed in close collaboration with Hemingway Limited – the organisation overseeing Hemingway’s estate – Cuervo y Sobrinos is the […]
Marking the resurrection of A. Lange & Söhne in 1994, the Lange 1 is the most eloquent ambassador of the German brand and considered a true Saxon watchmaking icon. With its asymmetric dial and outsize date, the Lange 1 is just shy of its 30th birthday and has, as you can appreciate in Brice’s extensive […]
If you’re on the hunt for a dive watch to enjoy during these warmer months of the year, you’re spoilt for choice by brands from A through Z. If you want to add in a practical GMT functionality, there’s still plenty to choose from, but it’s a lot less widespread already. Add in a water […]
Created by Sebastien Muller, 4th generation of Swiss watchmaker, Brellum is a confidential brand specialized in pilot or racing chronographs. What makes the brand unique is this wish to remain exclusive, and directly in touch with its audience. No more than 299 pieces are made a year, and sold only through to final consumers. It […]
For the past 4 years, Bell & Ross has been hard at work expanding its urban-oriented BR 05 collection, the Parisian brand’s vision of a sporty-chic watch with integrated design. First presented with a time-and-date display, it took a couple of years for the brand to connect this collection to its aviation roots, by presenting […]
Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927, became a poster boy for Longines. Not only was the brand in charge of measuring the official flight time of his epic feat, but it worked together with Lindbergh to create the famous navigation watch – Hour Angle – for pilots. Famous […]
If we would make an analogy to the car industry, we would call this an LCI (Life Cycle Impulse), a facelift or a mid-life update. Rolex, aware that it hasn’t drastically changed its watch, claims that it has “restyled” its Oyster Perpetual Sky-Dweller. There’s indeed a new, or at least updated version one of the […]
The difference a dial can make… We’ve said it on multiple occasions, but a simple change of dial colour can truly transform a watch. And the new opaline silvery-white dial of the Black Bay GMT that has been introduced earlier this year at Watches & Wonders is there to make a point. For several years, […]
Swiss brand Fortis has been under a drastic restructuring in recent years, with almost all collections being discontinued. There was, of course, an ambitious plan behind this bold move, a complete overhaul of the brand that materialized with the introduction of a brand new Flieger collection in 2020. Fortis being Fortis, this typology of watches […]
It has been eight years since Patek Philippe launched a Pilot-style watch. It was the unexpected Travel Time 5524G, a watch that caused a lot of discussions, mainly due to its controversial appearance and a confusing attachment to the Calatrava family. The inaugural reference, the variants to follow, including the now-discontinued 7234, and the 2019 […]