Hands-On: The A. Lange & Söhne Datograph Perpetual Tourbillon With Pink Gold Dial
Maybe a salmon is just a pink gold fish.
Hands-on – Schwarz Etienne Fiji Floral Seconds – Designed By a Woman for Women
Tapping into four prevailing trends on the watch scene – women’s growing interest in mechanical watches, dynamic dials, interchangeable watch straps and personalisation options– Schwarz Etienne unveiled its first ladies’ watch, the Fiji Floral Seconds, during the Geneva Watch Week this month. Designed by a woman for women, and not a downsized existing men’s model […]
VIDEO: The most complicated watches of SIHH 2019 – our top picks
OK, here are the watches that put the HH into SIHH, the sort of timepieces that challenge and define exactly what it’s possible to do with a watch on your wrist. These sort of movements take years and years of development, so it’s unreasonable to expect a new one every year, but at this year’s instalment of SIHH, the top end of town was very well represented, with some genuine innovation, and true ingenuity on show. Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle Twin Beat Perpetual Calendar One of the real standouts of the show was Vacheron Constantin’s innovative Twin Beat, which boasts twin balances beating at different rates. The real trick, though, is that the wearer can set which balance is in use, either an active or a passive mode. Something that, in effect, means you get up to 65 DAYS of power reserve. Handy if you don’t want to reset that perpetual calendar. Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpétuel While none of the grand complications in this JLC is new per se, they’re all exceptionally well executed, the Westminster Carillon in particular. The real feat, though, is combining this much complexity in an eminently wearable package. Ressence Type 2 And, finally,…
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HANDS-ON: Salmon stunner, the Montblanc Heritage Pulsograph
When Montblanc gave us a privileged preview of its new Heritage collection in Miami back in October, our gut told us that they had a winner in the salmon-dialled Heritage Pulsograph. Forward three months to SIHH: 36 exhibiting brands and I-don’t-know-how-many-hundreds of new watches later, our opinion is, if anything, stronger than ever. With the Heritage Pulsograph’s immaculately judged balance of good looks, technical content, quality of execution and price, Montblanc has hit the nail on the head. First, let’s talk aesthetics: vintage-inspired watches have been a thing for some years now – and thanks to its head of watches, Davide Cerrato, Montblanc is a shining example of how to do it right. (Cerrato has previous form, as you may know, having harnessed Tudor’s archives to transform it from also-ran to super-cool brand half a decade ago.) At Montblanc, he has the rich archives of Minerva to draw on – and the Heritage Pulsograph is very similar to a 1940s Minerva monopusher chrono. But it’s no slavish copy. We were able to line up both watches together and, on the new model, the lines of the case and lugs are cleaner, the surfaces flatter, giving the whole watch a more contemporary…
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In-Depth: Taking The Richard Mille RM25-01 Into The Colorado Backcountry
Playing Rambo with a million dollars on the wrist.
Hands-on – IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar Edition “Rodeo Drive”
2019 has been earmarked as the year of Pilot’s Watches at IWC. This has not translated into a complete overhaul of the collection (something that we applaud, as we think it is important to keep the classical models intact) but with the introduction of new models in sub-collections – mainly TOP GUN and Spitfire. Apart from all the […]
Industry News – LVMH Reports Record Results in 2018, Including for the Watches & Jewelry Division
LVMH, the world’s leading luxury group based in Paris, has just announced its full-year 2018 results, including those of the Watches & Jewelry division, which comprises among others Bvlgari, TAG Heuer, Zenith and Hublot. After an already impressive growth in 2017, the group again reports record growth for 2018. LVMH, for the full-year 2018, recorded […]
Hands-On: The Ming 19.02 Worldtimer
A new movement and new complication make this the brand’s most sophisticated watch yet.
Happenings: Joshua Shapiro To Lecture At The Horological Society Of New York
The American watchmaker and engine-turning expert will discuss the history and technique of engine-turning (guilloché).
Interview – In Conversation with Mike Horn, Explorer & Panerai Ambassador, during SIHH 2019
In life, on occasion one is privileged enough to have an interaction which inspires so deeply, it forces you to question your personal output to its deepest level. I was fortunate enough to have one of these, last week in Geneva, with Mike Horn. For those unfamiliar with the man, Mike is an enigma, originally from South Africa, he now lives in Switzerland. He is a record-setting explorer, sailor and environmentalist.