Category: High-end Watches

Introducing – The Louis Moinet Jules Verne Tourbillon “To the Moon” Let’s you Choose your Dial’s Meteorite

The remarkable discovery and acquisition of the Compteur de Tièrces, believed to be one of the first-ever chronographs, ignited a relentless commitment from Louis Moinet’s owner Jean-Marie Schaller to uphold the legacy, driving Les Ateliers Louis Moinet in St-Blaise to craft timepieces befitting the esteemed watchmaker’s name. With each release produced in limited quantities or […]

Introducing – H. Moser & Cie. Fuses Two Calendar Cultures in the Endeavour Chinese Calendar

H. Moser & Cie. pulled off one of the purest and most intuitive interpretations of the perpetual calendar when it unveiled its Endeavour Perpetual Calendar Concept in 2015. Visually taking the ‘complicated’ out of the perpetual calendar complication, it was the pinnacle of minimalism and user-friendliness. Today, Moser takes a massive leap up the complications […]

Introducing – The Colour-Changing ArtyA Tiny Purity Tourbillon Chameleon

With ArtyA, Yvan Arpa has formed a truly unique vision of watchmaking. There is no doubt that ArtyA watches are spectacular pieces and their design can be polarising. But ArtyA brings something different and fascinating to the watch industry, because of the brand’s capacity to think out of the box and to venture beyond mainstream. […]

Introducing – The Refined Honeygold Edition of the A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk Minute Repeater

A. Lange & Söhne’s Zeitwerk Minute Repeater is an extraordinary, highly original watch that perfectly captures the personality of this grand Saxon brand. As the only mechanical wristwatch to combine a jumping numerals display with a decimal minute repeater, the Zeitwerk is visually and acoustically exceptional. Following the first platinum Zeitwerk Minute Repeater of 2015 […]

Five Stylish and Practical Luxury Sports Chronograph Watches

Few segments in the watch industry are as popular and heavily contested as the luxury sports watch. The dive watch may come closest, but we can all agree that the luxury sports watch has boomed in recent years. Even independent watchmakers like H. Moser & Cie and Czapek have jumped on the bandwagon with (it […]

In-Depth – Exploring the World of Cases and Dials by F.P. Journe

It’s common practice for brands to outsource certain steps in the manufacturing of watches to specialised companies. It is, in fact, how the vast majority of watchmaking entities operate. Cases, dials, movements, crystals and straps can all come from different suppliers around the world before being assembled into a fine mechanical watch. Watches by brands […]

Introducing – The New Urwerk UR-100V Time & Culture II “Sumer”

In 2022, Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei unveiled a limited edition watch in the UR-100V series, richly decorated drawing inspiration from the Aztec Sun Stone, a masterpiece of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican art. Today, Urwerk introduces the second UR-100V edition in the Time & Culture series, transporting us to Mesopotamia circa 3000 BC, specifically to the city […]

First Look – The Czapek Quai des Bergues Double Soleil (Live Pics)

The name Czapek was resuscitated in late 2015 with the elegant Quai des Bergues, a model inspired by a Czapek pocket watch made in the 1850s with its unusually positioned sub-dials. Originally presented in a 42.5mm case and later in a 38.5mm case, the watch now comes in an intermediate 40.5mm diameter. And it also […]

Introducing – The New Moritz Grossmann Tefnut Silver-Plated by Friction

Born in 1826 in Dresden, Germany, Karl Moritz Grossmann established his watchmaking company in Glashütte in 1854, contributing significantly to the German watch industry’s development. After his demise in 1885, the company ceased production, marking the end of its initial chapter. In 2008, Christine Hutter, a trained watchmaker and former Glashütte Original and A. Lange […]

First Look – The Lush Green Dial of the Krayon Anywhere Aurora

Aptly described as a watch design engineer, Remi Maillat is capable of incorporating extraordinarily complex mathematical calculations into the diminutive stage of a mechanical wristwatch. Following his award-winning Everywhere watch of 2017 that can calculate sunrise and sunset times anywhere in the world, Maillat came out with the Anywhere in 2020. Still a hyper-complication like […]