The distinctive oval-shaped Reine de Naples watch is one of the best-selling ladies’ watches at Breguet. Now presented with a white Grand Feu enamel dial with sky-blue enamel numerals, this delightful white gold model combines yesteryear artistic techniques with a sprinkling of diamonds and an automatic movement for carefree everyday wear. Royal Commissions As the […]
Spousal approval for watch purchases is a thing. Plain and simple. It’s also, we should add to be responsible, the sign of a healthy and balanced relationship. You want a new watch? You’re going to draw from shared funds to buy it? It’s right and fair that you get the green light from your partner in crime. While we acknowledge and respect this process, we have also discovered, in our own experience, certain ways to stack the approval process in your favour. One of them is to buy said spouse attractive watches at any opportunity. Including but not limited to Mother’s Day. We have a suggestion that is at a price point favourable to spontaneity. The brand new Undone Urban 34 Killy, which you can buy in our shop now. This is the first ever ladies piece by Undone, the Hong Kong-based indie watchmaker. And, if you ask me, it is a breath of fresh air in the world of microbrand horology – for too long, indie brands have unashamedly geared their products towards consumers with an XY chromosome. This fetching vintage-toned watch is not just for women in size, it’s also offered with a double length “double tour” style leather…
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One fact that seems to have been roundly overlooked in recent years is the slow, steady, but really quite emphatic, elevation in Hublot’s yearly releases. In terms of technical complexity, case design and overall finishing. The Hublot of 2020 is not the brand that Jean-Claude Biver re-introduced to the world 15 years ago with the Big Bang. The Big Bang took the original spirit of Hublot’s previous designs – the rubber strap, exposed bezel screws and “ears” on the case sides – and blew them up in a 44.5mm case, capitalising on the trend of large watches at the time. It was a huge success, winning design prizes and tripling the number of orders that year. But looking back, it was an entirely different proposition to the diverse, creative and high-polished collections gleaming in the windows of boutiques and retailers today. Like the Mountain, who this week deadlifted 501kgs, the brand was record-breaking and impressive, but it lacked refinement. And Hublot no longer lacks that. Hublot has, in fact, become an amalgam of that same brute power, but with Brad Pitt in black tie finesse that can see the brand hold its own when it comes to finishing and overall…
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An historic collection will be on view in June.
Recently, our “Spotted” column was all about the most sought-after Rolex watch, and one of the most collectable of all watches currently on the market, a chronograph known as the Rolex Cosmograph Daytona. Today, we keep the same brand but we change model, for what’s probably the most underrated of all the Rolex sports watches, […]
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It isn’t retro: It’s retrograde.
Introduced already five years ago just ahead of Baselworld, the Divers Sixty-Five has quickly become one of the most emblematic watches of Oris, existing in countless permanent, special or limited editions, in multiple materials and in several sizes. Surprisingly, Oris managed to make it consistent and most of the editions proved successful – remember the […]
Bremont’s core model gets a 2nd generation, and now you can make it your own.
An elegant watch, for a more civilized age.