Mid-autumn festival – also known as mooncake festival – is celebrated annually on the 15th day of the eighth Chinese lunar month when the moon is at its fullest and brightest. Historically, the festival is associated with moon-worshipping and the completion of harvest. Today, it is mainly a time for family reunions, thanksgiving,…
I’d like to start this week’s Wind Down by asking you all to stop what you’re doing and give a big round of applause to Melbourne’s weather. Seriously, non-denominational weather gods – you have delivered the goods this week. If you’re reading this in the Sahara or on an Antarctic research base, we apologise, but for once Melbourne is a better place to be; it’s been mild and marvellous.…
Grand Seiko’s limited edition Hi-Beats are hot property, but the regular production SBHG005 is, not to overstate things in any way, a masterpiece of understated excellence.
Most high-end watches are instantly recognisable as luxury objects. Your watch makes a statement about who you are and what you value.…
By Roberta Naas
While Stan Wawrinka stands out on the court at the US Open Tennis Championships, one alluring reason may be his hot pink watch strap — on an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore watch. However, many other top tennis stars are watch brand ambassadors, here we bring you a look at
Hublot invited its VIP clients to experience the luxury Swiss watch brand’s first ever movie, MP-05 LaFerrari Sapphire: A Tribute to the FXX K.
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 […]
