To mark the 90th birthday of Giotto Bizzarini, and celebrate his lifetime of incredible contributions to the automotive community, Italian brand Bulgari sponsored a special class at the 2016 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance auto event dedicated to the gorgeous vehicles which bear the master craftsman’s name.
Talk to someone who knows nothing about watches and within 60 seconds you’ll no doubt be asked about “that brand” with the “you know…you look after it for the next generation” advertising campaign. Patek Philippe has been using the so-called Generations campaign to sell watches since 1996 without interruption, and the sentimental pairings of sweet family photographs and seemingly timeless watches is still going strong. On the occasion of the campaign’s 20th anniversary, I spoke with a few of the people instrumental in its creation and evolution over the decades, to get the real story behind watchmaking’s most iconic advertisements.
By now, you should of course be familiar with a timepiece’s potent ability to be both an extension of your personality and a projection of the inner machinations of your Id and Super Ego. Though both founding father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and his theories generate extensive controversy and debate as to their efficacy in deciding the…
After collecting and hunting down Speedmasters for many years now, I can say that my personal grail would be a Speedmaster CK2998-1. To me, it represents the Speedmaster in its best form. Black bezel, leaf hands, straight-lug case and caliber 321 movement. Unfortunately it took me some years to find out, and once I did, […]
When our editor in chief, Frank, asked me if I was interested in photographing seven (yes 7) A. Lange & Söhne watches, I was as happy as a kid in a candy (electronic?) store. I took this opportunity to think about the brand. What differentiates Lange? What makes their watches unique? Why do people pay an enormous amount of money for a simple hand-wound watch? I will share my personal views as well as photos to illustrate my points. In many ways, Lange watches resemble – or exceed – the reliability, robustness, quality and performance of German cars. When you strap a Lange watch on the wrist, it is as if you just took your seat behind the steering wheel in a German luxury car.
By Roberta Naas
It isn’t everyday you get to spend exclusive one-on-one time with a man who has set a world record and won an Olympic Gold medal, but we had that chance recently when we spoke with Richard Mille brand ambassador, Wayde van Niekerk, who was happy to talk about time and sports.
Baume & Mercier combines a second time zone display and power reserve in a watch that will soon be officially unveiled at SIHH 2017. It joins the Clifton collection, mostly comprised of mechanical watches that offer good value but are pricey in absolute terms, like the recent Clifton Perpetual Calendar. The new Clifton GMT Power Reserve, on […]
On December 7th, 2016, aBlogtoWatch invited guests in Miami, Florida, for a holiday party with Swiss watchmaker Parmigiani Fleurier. Other than it being an excuse for watch lovers to gather and converse, it was a chance for Parmigiani to show read more…
Editor’s Note: Seiko straight-up knocked it out of the park with this watch, a massive success that blends the Japanese brand’s legendary high quality and even higher value with a more European design approach. It’s the perfect centrepiece for the globally launched Presage collection, and clearly a massive favourite with you guys, as it was our fourth most-popular story this year. While much attention has been paid to the latest Grand Seiko offerings, as well as their ultra-cool Prospex Marinemaster GPS-Solar Dual Time, we can safely argue that the limited edition Presage chronographs are their finest under-the-radar offerings of 2016. Seiko is launching the Presage collection internationally this year, and these two watches celebrate the 60th anniversary of Seiko’s first automatic watch. The pair of sleek vintage-inspired chronographs come in at a comfortable 42mm, and offer two very attractive, and very traditional dial options - white enamel, and the gorgeous and incredibly labour-intensive deep black Urushi Lacquer. Both just about made my heart stop, and while my personal preference is the white enamel option, it’s hard to ignore the amount of care and attention that has gone into the black lacquer. The design of the dial – and indeed the choice…
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Talking about the Royal Oak reference 5402SA is an interesting experience, for what it represents, and what it doesn’t. Two-tone goes pretty strongly against the basic spirit of the Royal Oak, which was designed to be the most expensive steel watch ever made back in 1972. Yet, this did not stop Audemars Piguet from offering, a few years later, a full gold AP and a blend of both steel and gold: the two-tone phenomenon that we will cover here.