SIHH 2017 is just months away, and the Richemont brands are beginning to tease their new offerings that they will show off. Taking the lead is one of Richemont’s premier brands, Vacheron Constantin, with the new Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Moon Phase Retrograde Date watch.
The Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle Minute Repeater Tourbillon starts this year’s pre-SIHH 2017 watch release cycle. Let’s see what it has in store for us.
With no fanfare or fireworks, quietly, in the middle of the rush of the SIHH 2016, in the luxurious salons of the Cartier booth, nearly forgotten because pushed into the background by the introduction of the Drive, Cartier introduced this year a new version of an icon, the Santos 100. Well, if the design remains the same as the previous editions, some new colors are available. No big deal… However, it was until we’ve been told this watch came for the first time with a manufacture movement. Here is the 2016 Cartier Santos 100 ADLC, the icon back in full black and in-house.
With world time, home time, local jumping time and date, the DB25 World Traveller is a white gold salute to traveling in style.
Depending on your personal tastes and feelings on the crossover of jewelry and horology, a watch like this Richard Mille RM 51-02 tourbillon Diamond Twister is either amazing or represents all that is wrong in the world of watches.
If you’ve been paying even marginal attention to IWC over the past seven months you’ll have noticed it’s on a bit of an aviation kick, refreshing the entire Pilot’s family and adding some tantalising novelties like the limited edition ‘Le Petit Prince’ edition of the Big Pilot and the ingenious Timezoner.…