The Value Proposition: The William L. 1985 Automatic Chronograph
Vintage style, solid build quality, and powered by Seiko.
Found: ‘Confusing Fall Warblers’ – A Focused Collection Of Humble Hamiltons
A collection of cheap and cheerful field watches was born out of one man’s mail-order memories.
Pre-Baselworld 2018 – H. Moser & Cie. Endeavour Perpetual Calendar Purity Cosmic Green
Moser & Cie. revisits its winning Perpetual Calendar complication in a Cosmic Green fumé dial. Like its 2017 predecessor, the new 42mm white gold Endeavour Perpetual Calendar Purity applies a radically minimalist approach to one of the most revered complications in watchmaking. A triumph of simplicity and elegance, Moser’s Perpetual Calendar Purity belies the machinations of its complex hand-wound movement. Belonging to H. Moser’s Purity line and released in a limited edition of just 50 pieces, this perpetual calendar pushes the envelope of minimalism one step further dispensing with any sign of branding on the dial, in the same spirit as Moser’s Concept watches.
WATCHSPOTTING: 11 watches worn at the 2018 Oscars, feat. Montblanc, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Piaget, Apple and Rolex
It’s that time of year again where Tinseltown rolls out the red carpet for an evening of self-congratulatory grip-and-grinning, closing out the award season run with the Academy Awards, affectionately known by the name given to its ‘Academy Award of Merit’ prize in 1939 – the Oscars. Hollywood scandal and politics aside, the Oscars does produce some high-end glamour and more than a few enviable timepieces. Willem Dafoe – Best Supporting Actor Nominee – IWC Schaffhausen Da Vinci Chronograph Edition Laureus Sport for Good Foundation Timothée Chalamet – Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Nominee – JLC Reverso Tribute Duoface – pink gold Sam Rockwell – Best Supporting Actor Winner – Rolex GMT-Master II 16710 Jordan Peele – Best Original Screenplay winner, Best Director Nominee, Best Picture Nominee – Montblanc Star Classique Donald Glover – IWC Portofino Chronograph in 18-carat rose gold Michael B. Jordan – Piaget Altiplano gem-set timepiece in 18-carat white gold Armie Hammer – Montblanc Heritage Spirit Pulsograph Kobe Bryant – Apple Watch Series 3 Andy Serkis – Montblanc Heritage Spirit Date Automatic Tom Holland – Piaget Altiplano Skeleton BONUS: Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) – Best Actor Winner – Replica Breguet Split-seconds, minute repeating pocket watch…
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VIDEO: 6 exceptional A. Lange & Söhne watches from SIHH 2018
A. Lange & Söhne is a serious watchmaking brand. Everything they do is deliberate, and relentlessly on message. It would be easy to assume — based on this and the generally traditional nature of their timepieces — that the German brand is sober to the point of dullness, but the reality is exactly the opposite. Not only are their press presentations amongst the most consistently amusing (and informative) I’ve ever attended, but the watches themselves have fully fledged personalities that are anything but boring. Take the Saxonia Thin in Copper Blue. The Aventurine dial is fun, endlessly fascinating, and a perfect match for the minimal Saxonia model. Then there’s the Little Lange 1, a pint-sized model offered in three confident, but not over-the-top, colour schemes. And then there’s the Triple Split. Of all the A. Lange & Söhne 2018 releases it’s the one that, for me, most epitomises the values of the brand. Sublime watchmaking, made not to meet a clear and pressing need, but simply because they can. And made with such a sense of style and panache. Wunderbar.
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Value Proposition – Humism – Automatic Watches with Animated Dials That Make Art Out Of Time
It seems an endless wave of new watch brands are cropping up on Kickstarter every day, with many sharing the same or similar ‘minimalist’ design aesthetic. The majority seem to be generic, albeit more affordable, derivatives of existing products from more established brands. A rare few, however, like newcomer Humism, who we are featuring here …
EDITOR’S PICK: The Longines Conquest V.H.P. Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games has the craziest damn colourway we’ve seen in a long time (and we can’t look away)
Editor’s note: It’s just 37 days until the 2018 Commonwealth Games, to be held on Australia’s glorious high-rise holiday haven, the Gold Coast. This alarming reminder brings one of the oddest, in its way quite refreshing, watch releases of the year sharply back into focus; the Conquest V.H.P. Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games edition. I don’t know if it’s just us, but the topic of quartz-movement powered watchmaking also seems to be back on the agenda more than usual, with, for example, the recent release of Grand Seiko’s 25th anniversary of the 9F, with two limited editions, the SBGT241 and SBGV238. Whatever the case, the old crystal-oscillating enemy ain’t what she used to be, and curiosity about quartz is on the rise. Longines is the official partner and timekeeper of the XXI Commonwealth Games to be held on the Gold Coast, Australia in April 2018 and they have just announced the watch of the Games, the ‘Conquest V.H.P. (Very High Precision) Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games’. The Conquest V.H.P. sees Longines turning back the clock to a particularly golden year for both naming components: 1954. It was the year the first Conquest watch was released and it was also the year Longines launched the world’s…
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WHO TO FOLLOW: @Y.Andre.Ch
Andre is a Sydney-based collector with a penchant for rare vintage chronographs. We find out more … Hi Andre, what’s your daily watch and why? I’m currently wearing my Rolex 6542 GMT as my daily watch. While wearing the very first Rolex GMT reference as an everyday watch sounds crazy to most people, it’s one of the most wearable watches in my collection. Most of my watches are from the 1940s-50s, so a lot of them are a lot more fragile than the Rolex. Especially the early 1940s watches that don’t have Incabloc (shock absorber), and are not water resistant, let alone waterproof. What else is in your collection, is there a favourite? I’m a multi-brand kind of guy because I love all watches. I have other brands in my collection, like Gallet, Jaeger-LeCoultre and Omega, but my orbit of existence is Universal Genève (UG), and my absolute favourite piece is an oversize stainless steel UG Tri-Compax ref 22536 circa 1944. What’s that next piece you’re looking to buy? Vintage Longines chronograph with the legendary 13ZN movement. I’ve been waiting for the past two years for the “right” one to pop up; fingers crossed, 2018 is the year for it!…
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Weekend Reading: Lining Up For Art, Growing Up In A Masterpiece, And Putting Rolex Stickers On Bananas
The week’s can’t-miss stories from around the web.
Review – Spirograph Tourbillon by Karsten Fräßdorf – a tourbillon for proper daily use
I said it before and I’m saying it again, my wrist is rather lucky, as it gets to wear quite some extraordinary timepieces. For the past three months, I’ve been wearing the Spirograph from master watchmaker Karsten Fräßdorf, and it has been worn as a daily beater. And that was exactly what Karsten asked me: “Wear it as your daily watch and do not treat it as a fragile timepiece only because it features a large tourbillon“. Wearing the Spirograph proved to be a sheer pleasure and I enjoyed that huge tourbillon more than I ever thought I would. In fact, it has been one of the nicest watches I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing, ever. Here’s a full review of the Montres-KF Spirograph, a tourbillon wristwatch that can easily withstand shocks up to 5,000G and magnetic fields up to 1,000 Gauss (and that makes it a perfect tourbillon for everyday wearing.)