To many, Jaeger-LeCoultre is, first and foremost, the Reverso, represented by plenty of models with incredible mechanical and artistic complications to please the most discerning customer. However, contrary to what you might think, for a good two-thirds of its existence, since 1931 and until 1990, the Reverso collection featured time-only watches. The king of complications, […]
Trilobe, the young French brand founded by Gautier Massonneau, proposes a novel way of indicating the time. Abandoning the traditional use of hands, Trilobe relies on three rotating discs to display the hours, minutes and seconds. What started as a flat display with Les Matinaux in 2021 gained corporeality in 2022 to become Une Folle […]
There is the funky blue, the ruby red and the gradient brown, and we were right to expect another bright-coloured edition of the Defy Revival by Zenith to join the series (like the blue A3651), but no. The brand opted for “dark tones and muted textures” for the new watch in the Defy Revival series, […]
The Polo watch of 1979 was Piaget’s highly successful sporty-chic watch accounting for nearly one-third of the company’s sales in the 1980s. Following a radical makeover in 2016, the cushion-shaped Polo has appeared with mechanical complications, high and low, and even skeletonised high jewellery models. As a master of ultra-thin movements since the mid-1950s, last […]
The Hublot Big Bang was the brainchild of savvy marketer Jean-Claude Biver. Launched in 2005, its burly case, extroverted personality and fusion of different materials have consolidated the Big Bang as the brand’s flagship model. Last year, the Big Bang welcomed a sibling known as the Square Bang Unico, with, as you have intuited, a […]
Although we can sometimes nitpick about proportions and balance in some of its watches, in reality, there’s very little to complain about when it comes to Grand Seiko. The fact of the matter is the Japanese manufacture has been on a proverbial roll for the past couple of years in almost all its collections and […]
Arnold & Son packs plenty of details into its watches to be admired with a loupe or without. There is always an exquisite dial to enjoy, along with the exceptionally fine-finished movements. It is also a brand that manages to excite by releasing past references with new combinations of materials and colours, building on the […]
A year after its debut in stainless steel, Parmigiani’s ingenious GMT watch is back in a luxurious 18k rose gold case. As a member of the Tonda PF luxury sports watch family, the operative words of user-friendliness and understatement are upheld in this GMT model that uses superimposed hour hands to indicate local and home […]
Although it is probably far more useful to mountaineers, hikers, climbers, skiers and other adventurous kinds than modern-day airline pilots flying in a pressure-controlled environment, the Oris ProPilot Altimeter remains a rarity, as it is one of the very few mechanical altimeter watches available. In fact, it is the only one with an automatic movement! […]
In physics, the Big Bang signals the beginning of time; in watchmaking, it is synonymous with Hublot‘s eponymous collection. Imploding on the scene in 2005, the Hublot Big Bang was designed to shock and awe with its large loud cases fusing state-of-the-art materials. Fusion is the operative word again as the Big Bang steps up […]