Fabulous Jewellery For The Festive Season
Boucheron, Cartier, Chanel, Graff, and Harry Winston bring us holiday cheer with these fabulous creations.
Video Interview With Crown & Caliber Founder Hamilton Powell
Every watch fan knows the feeling. You’ve just found a great watch for sale online, and right before pulling the trigger a little voice pops into your head advising caution. It’s the ultimate buzzkill to buying a pre-owned watch online, and why I was so excited to take a trip to Atlanta-based Crown & Caliber, a company that promises to silence all those little voices.
Christmas Shopping Guide – The Best Of Indie Watchmaking Of 2016
After showing you our selection for the best sports and dive watches, after the 5 best chronographs, the best dress watches or the best of the ultra-complicated watches, it is now time to end these guides with what certainly is our most preferred category, the one that properly creates sparkles in the eyes of our team: the best of “indie watchmaking” of 2016. Just before Christmas, we bring you the ultra-bold, the ultra-complex, the ultra-everything. No compromises, no justification of price, no industrial matters. Here, it’s all about dream, passion, creativity and innovation. Here are our 5 best watches from independent watchmakers introduced in 2016.
Found: Original Owner of 1970s Heuer Autavia Lists Watch On Ebay, But Not Before Getting Into A Moped Accident
An original owner vintage chronograph is the type of thing we’re all looking for on Ebay – and Louis always does a wonderful job at finding them for you in our weekly Bring A Loupe column. Today, though Louis’s Bring A Loupe is queued up for later in the day, I thought I’d call attention to an original owner automatic Autavia listed on Ebay in Germany. An original watch like this always has a lot of interest in it, but few, if any that I can recall, have also survived the tragedy of the most dramatic of human occurrences – a moped accident.
In Conversation: Karl-Friedrich Scheufele Part 2 of 3: QFF, Fairmined and Berthoud
We continue on our tête-à-tête with Chopard co-President and F. Berthoud President, Karl-Friedrich Scheufele (KFS). In Part 1, we explored the origins of the L.U.C manufacture and the lessons learnt. And in this article, we chat about Chopard’s involvement in the Qualitie Fleurier Foundation, the support for Fairmined Gold, and…
Customizable Undone Urban Chronograph Watches
Undone is democratizing custom made watches by offering affordable yet customizable timepieces via their watch customizer. For 2017, their new Urban Chronograph collection is available for pre-orders and pledges on Kickstarter until the end of December.
Heritage and History – The Power Of Panerai
3, 6, 9 and 12 – There is no watch brand that relies, so much on these four bold numbers. Year after year, Panerai keeps its followers in a grip and surprises them with new models. Often with minimal changes, since at Panerai it is all about details. Now I just said minimal changes, but that’s a bit […]
Value Proposition – Ball Watch Engineer III Bronze Star and Silver Star – The Future Is Now
We all look for different things in watches, whether that be the design, features or even just the price. One thing we can all agree on is that we want our watches to look good, and specifically look good on us. The Engineer III Bronze Star and Silver Star – coming from Ball Watch, offers all the great aspects of a modern day timepiece and is available to pre-order online now.
Download the Toolwatch App
We’ve been following the Toolwatch guys since their early start and they did a great job in creating a ‘tool’ to measure the accuracy of your watch. First via their website, but now there’s also the Toolwatch app available in the Apple Store and Play Store (Google). Checking the accuracy of your watch For most […]
The 10 Most Notable Watches of 2016
The past year was generally a bad one for the fine watch business, with layoffs, retiring management and plunging profits. In such an environment hopes for great products aren’t high, since watch brands now focus on safe bets that are easy to sell. Nonetheless there were several standout watches unveiled over the year, ranging from the […]