Editors’ Picks: The Best Beach Watches Of 2018 (Just In Time For Summer)
Timepieces to wear with a different kind of suit.
In-Depth: Diving With A Vintage Tornek-Rayville
Sometimes, it’s not just about the watch.
Introducing – Montblanc Heritage Chronométrie Collection 2018 with New Openworked Movements and Slimmer Cases
When Lambert took over Montblanc, the idea was simple: bringing a lot for less money. This didn’t mean that all watches had to be affordable, but rather that watches were priced lower than expected, even with a true horological content. This gave birth to a Sub-10k Perpetual Calendar, the 4810 ExoTourbillon Slim or a sub-7k annual calendar. Following the same idea, Montblanc introduces 3 new watches in the Heritage Chronométrie collection, still complex but with new, contemporary design codes.
HANDS-ON: Looking great in grey – the Glashütte Original Senator Excellence Panorama Date
It’s easy with any brand’s new release catalogue to get swept up with the drama and complexity of the halo pieces. In the case of Glashütte Original that glory goes to the flashy green of the Sixties Panorama Date, or the bells and whistles of the Senator Cosmopolite. But sometimes you crave something simple, clean and pure. That’s where this latest take on the Senator Excellence Panorama Date comes in. If you’re not au fait with the watch, it’s one of the less complex models in the Senator family and was first introduced, with its lunar sibling, back in 2016. A well-sized 42mm by 12.2mm watch, cased here in sensible and utilitarian steel, it’s powered by the calibre 36-03, a big date-equipped take on the very impressive Calibre 36. This is one very impressive movement, a 4Hz automatic, with 100 hours of power reserve (all coming from one barrel no less), and tested to standards that meaningfully exceed COSC standards. It also looks great too, what with that double ‘G’ skeletonised rotor. But for me, this watch is all about the dial. The design of the Senator Excellence Panorama Date is quite restrained to start with, with those arrowhead hour…
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EDITOR’S PICK: Does the Rolex Batman still hold its own, now that there’s a new red and blue hero on the block?
Editor’s note: You don’t have to be one of Gotham’s finest to figure out that the all new, all ‘Oystersteel’ ‘Pepsi’ GMT-Master II was one of the biggest releases to come out of Baselworld this year. The hype was real. And with all this talk of two-colour bezels, we got to wondering around the T+T office, if this one — the first of the Rolex ceramic bezels to get the bi-colour treatment — can hold its own against its brand-new red and blue younger sibling. While we wait for the first deliveries of Pepsi to be made, and to find out just how the Batman stacks up, we thought it was a good idea to get reacquainted with the BLNR, and Mr Bruce Duguay’s excellent in-depth review. When Rolex introduced the updated ceramic bezel GMT-Master II nearly 10 years ago it was perhaps one of the most aggressive revisions to this historic model. A beautiful new scratch and fade resistant ceramic insert for the bezel, a heftier case and more pronounced dial ushered in a new era for this pilot’s watch. Notably absent, however, were the bi-colour bezels that had been available since the inception of the GMT-Master in the 1950s (think ‘Pepsi’ blue/red and ‘Coke’ red/black).…
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Introducing – IWC Portugieser Perpetual Calendar in Platinum and Portugieser Automatic in Steel (which might cause a small riot)
This year, 2018, International Watch Company or short IWC celebrates their 150th anniversary and for that reason, they launched a host of anniversary models (see here in our IWC section) and in the meantime there’s been a new Pilot’s Watch Chronograph with creme-coloured (vintage style) markers and hands and a “Laureus Edition” black ceramic Pilot’s Watch Mark XVIII. And while the entire year will be all about the 150th anniversary, the Schaffhausen-based brand still adds some other novelties to the collection. There’s a new version of the Portugieser Perpetual Calendar in platinum and a steel Portugieser Automatic, that looks exactly like the older platinum version of this watch.
WHO TO FOLLOW: @Tom.inslay – watch engraver and artist
Tom Inslay is your typical Aussie, with the obvious exception of being wholly consumed by the beautiful world of horology. He’s also got a few interesting talents … Hey Tom, we’ve been wondering — what do you actually do? I have been in the manufacturing industry my whole life, the past six years as a CNC Machinist for a multinational mining company which designs and manufactures niche equipment for hard rock mine sites. On the side, I also run my own business, primarily as a bespoke hand engraver, and now watch art. What’s your daily watch and why? My daily watch is a Blue Tudor Pelagos. For me it’s the perfect work watch: the titanium makes it light, the clasp makes it easily adjustable and comfortable, the ceramic bezel is durable, the lume is second to none. It’s also not a $20,000 watch that I am too afraid to mark and wear, yet it’s a nice enough watch that an enthusiast would enjoy to wear. What else is in your collection? Have you got a favourite? I also have a Rolex GMT-Master II 116710BLNR ‘Batman’, an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 15400 Blue, and a Rolex Submariner 5513 (birth year 1988). Which one…
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EDITOR’S PICK: Last year we predicted 9 vintage reissues to be released in 2018. So how did we do?
Editor’s note: Speculation is, by definition, risky. But it’s also fun. And here at T+T we don’t speculate on shares or cryptocurrency — no, we make guesses on watch releases. So last year we made nine semi-educated guesses as to what watches we’d see this year … and we didn’t do so well. If you’re charitable, we can kind of claim three out of nine. Their is a new Polaris (though not the Mark II), the new Navitimer 8 does have a bit of Top Time DNA in there, and Andy did predict a gradient grey dial Blancpain Diver Date. But you know what, there’s always 2019 … Today’s list is, without doubt, one of the most meta we’ve done in a while. We’re looking forward … to the past. There’s no escaping that vintage reissues are a part of the watch collection landscape, now being a ‘key pillar’ for many brands, and guessing what they’re going to pull out of the archives is always a fun game. So Andy and I polished off the crystal ball and had a stab at what we’re going to see at SIHH and Baselworld 2018. Omega Flightmaster Andy: The Omega Flightmaster is one of…
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EDITOR’S PICK: Last year we predicted 9 vintage reissues to be released in 2018. So how did we do?
Editor’s note: Speculation is, by definition, risky. But it’s also fun. And here at T+T we don’t speculate on shares or cryptocurrency — no, we make guesses on watch releases. So last year we made nine semi-educated guesses as to what watches we’d see this year … and we didn’t do so well. If you’re charitable, we can kind of claim three out of nine. Their is a new Polaris (though not the Mark II), the new Navitimer 8 does have a bit of Top Time DNA in there, and Andy did predict a gradient grey dial Blancpain Diver Date. But you know what, there’s always 2019 … Today’s list is, without doubt, one of the most meta we’ve done in a while. We’re looking forward … to the past. There’s no escaping that vintage reissues are a part of the watch collection landscape, now being a ‘key pillar’ for many brands, and guessing what they’re going to pull out of the archives is always a fun game. So Andy and I polished off the crystal ball and had a stab at what we’re going to see at SIHH and Baselworld 2018. Omega Flightmaster Andy: The Omega Flightmaster is one of…
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Weekend Round-Up: Conquering Everest, Nostalgia Pizza, And Tracking Human Migration
The week’s can’t-miss stories from around the web.