HYT’s novel timepieces with fluid time displays are now accompanied by a five-year warranty, identical to the Rolex international warranty and one year longer than that for Omega’s Co-Axial watches. This is the longest warranty period amongst fellow manufacturers of high-end, avant-garde timepieces. Bestowed upon all new HYT watches as well as timepieces sold in […]
The truth is we’re not quite sure how this happened. It’s Thursday and the first final of the AFL 2016 finals series is played tonight. Somehow, in the madness leading up to Melbourne’s favourite month of the year (the Grand Final is October 1, joy!), double Premiership player for the Hawks (2014, 2015) Taylor Duryea found time to come in to the office to talk about a watch that holds special significance for him – the Tissot Premiership Watch.…
Three new models have joined the twin time zone Grand Seiko GMT line-up, including an unusually coloured limited edition. All three additions are powered by the top of the line calibre 9S86, an automatic that runs at 36,000 beats per hour. Morning light The limited edition Grand Seiko Hi-Beat 36000 GMT (SBGJ021) draws on the “colours of sunrise on Mount Iwate”, […]
Urwerk is one of the uber cool watchmakers which we always keep an eye out. The dynamic team of Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei are full of interesting ideas. In 2014, they introduced a world first of a watch which is purely mechanical, and yet sports an electronic monitoring device which allows the owner to check the beat rate of the watch…
Fusing traditional watchmaking and electronics, the latest iteration of the Urwerk EMC features a skeletonised dial that reveals the mechanics of the movement. First introduced in 2013, the EMC attempts to perfect the old fashioned mechanical wristwatch with high-tech: an electronic rate monitor powered by a hand crank, which indicates whether the movement is running fast […]
One of the hottest watches in the mid-2000s, the BR 01 has now entered maturity, and so has to go further to stand out. While keeping the aviation instrument-inspired watch case, the BR 01 Burning Skull is elaborately decorated with inked engravings. Covering all faces of the square case, the Burning Skull radically different look from the […]
Officine Panerai, celebrated the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge over the holiday weekend in Newport, Rhode Island. Winners of the event announced.
The Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris will host for the first time a thematic exhibition staged by the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie illustrating the history of watchmaking and the the tracing of the measurement of time.
The latest from Geneva-based DeWitt is the Academia Skeleton, which boasts a truly novel seconds hand that travels in two different directions. Powered by an in-house, hand-wound movement, the key feature of the Academia Skeleton is the seconds display at seven o’clock. The seconds hand points to the seconds on a large, fan-shaped scale running from zero […]
Just when we thought the Apple revolution was over with its dominance in the mobile industry, we were wrong after it released the Apple watch back in 2015. The Apple watch has taken the watch industry by storm and has in some ways, redefined the function of a watch.…