There will be a charity watch auction which will commence on eBay on March 16th and will finish on March 26th, with the proceeds going to the children’s charity Bravehearts. Mark Knopfler is the Patron of Bravehearts and he has kindly donated two of his personal timepieces to the auction.…
First presented in 2014, the Tonda Métrographe from Parmigiani has a new redesigned dial that makes for easier reading on a choice of colours. The result is dynamic!
The TAG Heuer Connected Modular 45, the sports watchmaker’s second generation smartwatch looks a lot like the first, but it’s been significantly improved design-wise. While the software remains similar, the hardware, namely all the external parts of the 45mm case, is customisable. A total of 56 different variations are available, created with various options for the bezel, lugs, […]
In the world of Haute Horlogerie Maximilian Büsser, Max for friends, is a force of his own. For the Legacy Machine Perpetual, he joined forces with independent watchmaker Stephen McDonnell, and the result is a perpetual calender unlike any other!
If there is one watch connected to the most powerful man on earth, it is the Rolex Day-Date, also known under its nickname: President. Dwight D. Eisenhower, but there is more to the history of this iconic watch!
The year 2017 will be remembered as a special one for all the folks at Greubel Forsey. For this year, they join an exalted rank of manufacturers – Patek Philippe, A. Lange & Söhne and F.P. Journe, among others – that have accomplished a grande sonnerie wristwatch. Ask any watchmaker worth his salt and he will tell…
The Vacheron Constantin Overseas Chronograph is probably the most sportive model by the brand. Vacheron Constantin launched the Overseas collection in 1996, adding the chronograph model in 1999, and revised it in 2016.
Louis Vuitton doesn’t exhibit at Baselworld but nonetheless is announcing several new watches ahead of the trade fair: a trio of Escale complications with muted dark blue dials and bi-metal cases in titanium and precious metals. The top of the line is the Escale Spin Time Tourbillon Central Blue (pictured above), featuring a newly developed, automatic […]
BASEL BUILDUP: One of the great things about Basel is the interviews. All the key players are in one place, and to use sporting parlance, when the doors open and the cameras roll, it is game on. We didn’t know it at the time, but this interview with then-President of Omega Stephen Urquhart at Baselworld 2016 was to be one of his last. A couple of weeks later, in April, he announced his retirement, a story we were also involved in breaking. This casts the interview in a different light – and it might also explain why he more freely tackled topics such as Rolex’s redefined Rolex Superlative Chronometer certification (in episode one), the mistake he made with the introduction of the Co-Axial movement and the watch he wore on his most recent wedding day (both in episode two). This is viewing not only for hardened watch enthusiasts and Omega-maniacs but also for those looking for a more human face behind the rhetoric and braggadocio of watch industry leaders.
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Having secured a small quantity of meteorite from Campo del Cielo, or “Field of Heaven”, an area in Argentina that was the site of the largest meteorite impact ever, De Bethune has been putting the cosmic rock to good use. Having used a portion of it for the case of the otherworldly Dream Watch 5 Meteorite, De Bethune […]