Bovet’s prodigious Virtuoso V gets a sumptuous red guilloché dial. Given its two-faced nature, the red guilloché is featured on both sides of the movement and showcases the talent of Bovet’s in-house artisans. Technically similar to the former iteration of the Virtuoso V, the dial with the jumping hours display abandons the seconds display and […]
I’m thrilled to announce this news. Machiel Hulsman, former IT consultant turned watchmaker, has created the very first entirely handmade wristwatch from the Netherlands. We have the legacy of Christiaan Huygens, the inventor of the pendulum clock, Christiaan van der Klaauw, a watch and clockmaker who created the smallest planetarium (in a wristwatch), and the […]
This is the Klepcys Vertical Tourbillon from independent Swiss Manufacture Cyrus Watches. It was unveiled at Baselworld last year and was without a doubt one of the more unusual watches I got hands-on with this year. It also offered my first glimpse into a brand that I must admit I knew little about before. Polarising […]
This is the Klepcys Vertical Skeleton Tourbillon from independent Swiss Manufacture Cyrus Watches (an evolution of last year’s model with a closed dial). It was unveiled at Baselworld last year and was without a doubt one of the more unusual watches I got hands-on with this year. It also offered my first glimpse into a […]
H. Moser & Cie. released the Endeavour Flying Hours in 2018, offering a refreshing and contemporary take on a planetary display and the brand’s first foray into non-traditional time representation. Acclaimed for its ability to reinterpret complications in ingeniously simple ways and stage them in dramatic, minimalist settings, Moser’s take on a planetary display of […]
While Armin Strom‘s main focus of the last two years has been on Resonance (see here or here), the brand has much more to show than just this impressive piece of watchmaking engineering. The brand is first and foremost known for being an integrated manufacture of bold, modern skeletonized timepieces. The latest addition to the […]
In a radical departure from De Bethune’s hallmark heat-blued titanium colour palette, the DB28 surprised us at Basel 2019 with its two-tone golden suit. The transition from cool cosmic blue to warm radiant gold raises the temperature on the DB28 and gives the watch an entirely different personality. Packed with six patented De Bethune technical […]
Take two of the best of Greubel Forsey wristwatches, merge them into one and you have their latest creation, the GMT Quadruple Tourbillon. Like always, when we’re talking about Greubel Forsey, you know and feel that this is a different level of watchmaking that is simply second to non. The stellar finishing of the Greubel Forsey GMT Quadruple Tourbillon is only on par with other Greubel Forsey timepieces. This GMT Quadruple Tourbillon is a limited edition of 66 pieces in total, and is launched in an 11 piece limited edition in white gold and it comes at a ‘stellar’ price of CHF 780,000.
First introduced in 2006 in the elegant DB21 case, relaunched in 2014 in a more modern DB28 case, the De Bethune Maxichrono was and still is one of the most fascinating and mechanically impressive chronographs of the lot. Functionality, mechanical ingenuity, beauty of construction and decoration… A sort of dream-chrono. Denis Flageollet’s vision of the […]
Urban Jürgensen is known for crafting some of the most refined dress watches. However, just a few weeks ago, the independent Swiss/Danish watchmaker entered the luxury sports watch category with the sophisticated Jürgensen One collection. The model stands out with a dynamic steel case with curves and fitted with a distinctive bracelet with oval-shaped interlinks. […]