Swedish watchmaker Patrik Sjögren and master blacksmith Johan Gustafsson are the men behind the brand GoS watches – short for Gustafsson & Sjögren. Renowned for the use of Damascus steel and themes inspired by Scandinavian landscape and folklore, the two-man show produces highly artisanal watches in highly limited editions. Earlier this year GoS introduced a […]
TAG Heuer has unveiled the fifth and final iteration of its limited edition series of timepieces celebrating 50 years of the heroic Monaco wristwatch. Like the rest of the limited-run watches, which each celebrate a separate decade in the history of the Monaco since its inception in 1969, the 2009-2019 example will be limited to just 169 pieces. Taking styling cues from TAG Heuer’s design language of the last decade, the 2009-2019 Monaco looks rather handsome thanks to a dark slate grey dial with complementing black gold-plated indices and hands, while bursts of contrasting red can be found on the hands of both sub-dials, the seconds hand and the centre of the 12 o’clock marker. Housed inside the iconic 39mm stainless steel case is TAG Heuer’s venerable Calibre 11 movement, which offers customers a date and chronograph complication, 40 hours of power reserve, 59 jewels and 28,800 (4Hz) vibrations per hour. The 2009-2019 edition is paired with a perforated black leather band that harks back to the Monaco’s late ’60s/’70s stylistic roots. The stainless steel case, which is topped in domed sapphire crystal and water resistant to 100 metres, also features an engraving on the back signifying the limited nature…
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It has been a stellar year for Grand Seiko, with the Japanese watchmaker releasing not only a bevy of new iterations of some of their most popular models, but also a completely new manual-wind dress watch, the SBGK series. And, as is always the case with Grand Seiko, the arresting dials adorning these new timepieces have been received with a fairly large amount of adoration within the horological community. So, with that in mind, we thought we’d whittle down all the new dial designs produced by Grand Seiko in 2019 and pick our five favourite examples: Grand Seiko SBGH269 We couldn’t make this list without mentioning the current hype beast of Morioka, the Grand Seiko SBGH269 ‘Autumn’. There’s no two ways about it – the dial of this watch is gorgeous, with a bright red centre bleeding into a deeper and darker almost-maroon around the edges. Then there’s the vertical pin striping in slightly brighter shades of red, giving the watch’s dial an overall aesthetic akin to that of a boiled candy. Contrasted with gold accents that can be found on the Grand Seiko logo, minute markers and second hand, the SBGH269 certainly deserves its ‘Autumn’ moniker and is…
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An ocean explorer sinks his teeth into dive watch design.
This face-to-face article wasn’t something we actually planned to do… But recently, after shooting photos for the review of the Glashütte Senator Chronograph Panorama Date, I put the watch on my desk, right next to another chronograph… A white dial IWC Portugieser Chronograph 3714. And that’s how the idea for this battle of automatic chronographs emerged. Two slightly Germanic-looking watches, with white dials, elegant but not over-dressed designs, from two of the most respected brands. This is not going to be an easy battle!
We’ve gathered a diverse group of sporty and colorful watches for this week’s Halloween-themed vintage round-up.
Fourteen years after the first MIH watch, the Swiss museum releases its follow-up.
Bebop jazz is anything but clean and minimalist. Still, its founder inspired Oris to make a watch that is exactly that. Meet the latest watch in Oris’ Jazz Legend collection, dedicated to drummer Art Blakey, who had his heyday quite some time ago, but hasn’t been forgotten. Meet the new Oris Art Blakey Limited Edition. […]
Birth year watches are a pretty special thing, especially if you manage to find one in a watch model that you actually want. But here’s something you don’t see very often … or ever, really. Darren has gone and bought himself a gorgeous Rolex GMT-Master Ref.1675 “Pepsi” that was not only sold in his birth year but on his birth date! That’s pretty remarkable and, if I’m being completely honest, I’m exceedingly jealous. Where did you first see/hear about it? I purchase a lot of my watches from trusted dealers in Singapore, having lived there for a couple of years and regularly travel there for work. Recently I have been bitten by the vintage watch bug. One Sunday in August I was on WhatsApp texting Alvin, the owner of Monster-Time Vintage. I was inquiring about a vintage GMT he had, as I was chasing a birth year watch. He asked me my date of birth and I told him it was the 2nd of May, 1978. About 15 mins later he came back and said, “You’ve got to be kidding me … you’re freaking me out!” He sent me pictures of the GMT saying to check the date on the…
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Birth year watches are a pretty special thing, especially if you manage to find one in a watch model that you actually want. But here’s something you don’t see very often … or ever, really. Darren has gone and bought himself a gorgeous Rolex GMT-Master Ref.1675 “Pepsi” that was not only sold in his birth year but on his birth date! That’s pretty remarkable and, if I’m being completely honest, I’m exceedingly jealous. Where did you first see/hear about it? I purchase a lot of my watches from trusted dealers in Singapore, having lived there for a couple of years and regularly travel there for work. Recently I have been bitten by the vintage watch bug. One Sunday in August I was on WhatsApp texting Alvin, the owner of Monster-Time Vintage. I was inquiring about a vintage GMT he had, as I was chasing a birth year watch. He asked me my date of birth and I told him it was the 2nd of May, 1978. About 15 mins later he came back and said, “You’ve got to be kidding me … you’re freaking me out!” He sent me pictures of the GMT saying to check the date on the…
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