Following up with our series of interviews with major actors of the online watch market – including watch media such as Hodinkee and Revolution, which not only cover watches but also sell watches – we now get to look at one of the largest and most convincing online platforms, MR PORTER. Unique and luxurious, this […]
Coming soon: ultra-thin Eco-Drives, high-tech Promasters, hybrid smartwatches, and Mickey Mouse watches.
The XPS by Chopard has been one of the best examples of the modern, chic, ultra-thin watch for over 20 years now. Elegant, beautifully crafted with great mechanics, one could regret a certain lack of audacity in the design, with most of the pieces being quite minimalistic. While keeping the L.U.C codes alive, Chopard brings […]
Bigger, stealthier, and – wonderful to relate – without a date.
Few sports so frequently, and so intensely, show the individual under pressure as Grand Slam tennis singles. Take the case of Stefanos Tsitsipas from Greece, who just two days ago defeated the GOAT (fact), Roger Federer. At the end of the first set, a grimly fought 13-11 tiebreak that went against him, he looked gone. Statisticians reeled off the odds from a first-set deficit against the Fed and they all looked beyond bleak. The GOAT doesn’t tend to look back from an early lead. But the young Greek gun had other ideas. He won in four, and won again today, through to a semis berth. For Alex de Minaur, the second youngest player inside the top 100 (at No. 29) and the highest ranked male Australian player, that win is a sign of things to come from the vanguard of young players on the rise. They are hungry. They are committed. And they “wake up every day” wanting to push the top guys, to take it up to them. “They’ve been at the top for long enough,” de Minaur, 19, says. And when he falls short, like de Minaur did recently against Alexander Zverev in an Australia vs Germany Davis…
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The day after SIHH, I found myself walking around the cobbled streets of Geneva’s old town. It’s a very different Geneva to the vast, softly furnished halls of the Palexpo, or even the squat monoliths of the famed manufactures, with their clean rooms and airlocks. No, this street was winding, cobbled and, even though the day was sunny, cold. It was a street filled with art galleries and antique stores and, as I was to discover, one of the most exciting watchmakers in the business right now. In many ways, watchmaking is all about light. It’s something that’s incredibly important both in design and construction, and it’s apparent at Akrivia. For one, the facade of Akrivia is dominated by large, wide windows allowing natural light (and more than one curious onlooker) unfettered access to the open workshop, where red-coated watchmakers quietly and intensely work. Before the workshop though, there’s a reception area, and it’s here where I sat down with the prodigy and passionate founder of the brand, Rexhep Rexhepi (Su Jia Xian from WatchesbySJX was also there, but that’s just a coincidence). Initially our conversation was focused on the watches on the trays. The quality of all the pieces…
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The pocket watch movement whose name would become that of one of watchmaking’s most important companies returns.
A celebratory watch for a very big anniversary.
HSNY will now award multiple scholarships of $10,000 every year.
125 years ago, a Swiss watch manufacture started to use its commercial name and became one of the most iconic, most sought-after names in the industry. Not a new brand per se, this watch manufacture took its name from its emblematic movement, a 19-ligne hand-wound calibre fitted in pocket watches: the Calibre Omega. As you’ve […]