I am not shy about my feeling that these days Blancpain produces some of the most beautiful high-end diving watches available in their Fifty Fathoms family. The collection is populated with a few distinct models which generally fall into the “classic” Blancpain Fifty Fathoms 5015 watch family, and the Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe.
On December 7th, 2016, aBlogtoWatch invited guests in Miami, Florida, for a holiday party with Swiss watchmaker Parmigiani Fleurier. Other than it being an excuse for watch lovers to gather and converse, it was a chance for Parmigiani to show read more…
The Mortiz Grossmann Atum Pure M watch is an interesting timepiece that I was surprised to see from the conservative Glashütte, Germany-based watchmaker. Even though Moritz Grossmann is named for an important historic watchmaker from the region, the company as it is today is less than a decade old.
Here’s a fun fact: Carl F. Bucherer is one of the the oldest luxury watchmakers in Switzerland still wholly owned by its founding family – a feat that grows more and more impressive every year as the industry’s original independents read more…
Bucking the current trend in watchmaking where ‘old’ is hot, but ‘too-old’ is not, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso spent the year celebrating its 85th birthday with the Tribute Calendar announced at SIHH 2016 – a fully modern, yet carefully preserved icon that read more…
Blue has proved to a popular color for watchmakers in the past few years. But few blue watches are as stunning as the De Bethune DB28T Tourbillon “Kind of Blue” watch.
Blue has proved to a popular color for watchmakers in the past few years. But few blue watches are as stunning as the De Bethune DB28T Tourbillon “Kind of Blue” watch.
Even though the historic decorated-egg-maker Fabergé is a “luxury name” most people know, even many well-informed watch lovers have no idea that the brand is alive today and making wrist watches.
Angelus is a “new old brand” that was recently brought back under the larger La Joux-Perret manufacture umbrella which includes sister brand Arnold & Son. A good way of thinking about Angelus in relation to Arnold & Son is that while they both feature interesting and mostly complicated original watches, Arnold & Son is inspired by the past while Angelus is more contemporary or futuristic in their design approach.
I believe it was in 2015 that Bulgari first debuted the Papillon Tourbillon Central as an extension of the Daniel Roth brand that they absorbed some years back. Even though all the Daniel Roth branding is gone, those familiar with watches from the last 20 years will know the origin and recognize the DNA of this model. For everyone else, it is another interesting element of the dynamic Bulgari brand.