Hublot‘s collaboration with Ferrari has been a fruitful one, spawning several dozen wristwatches including the exotic, engine-shaped MP-05 LaFerrari. That list just got longer with the launch of the redesigned Big Bang Ferrari Unico. The new Big Bang Ferrari is a variation on the previous generation, with the same mix of automobile-inspired elements in the design, […]
It is no secret that I love Bulgari. I have written articles about the Serpenti and the Tubogas, and most recently sourced a vintage enamel Serpenti for the HODINKEE Ladies’ Collection at Material Good. So, it should come as no surprise to see this beaut come across your screen. What you see here is the latest addition to the Serpenti Collection: the Serpenti Seduttori High Jewelry bangle watch. And this little snake has a 16 carat sapphire on top of its head, because of course it does.
As the number of smartwatch offerings continues to proliferate, the choice is often framed as a dichotomy: on the one hand you have the Apple Watch, running watchOS, and, on the other hand, you have a plethora of smartwatches running Android. The overwhelming likelihood, of course, is that if you’re in the market for a smartwatch, you’ll go for the one in the same ecosystem as your smartphone – the Apple Watch isn’t compatible with Android at all, and while you can kinda-sorta use an Android Wear watch with an iPhone, generally you are going to get a pretty restricted experience.
Swiss haute horologer Vacheron Constantin unveils the novel Metiers d’Art Gyr timepiece, which draws inspiration from the Arab art of falconry.
We have put together a selection of Tissot’s five most popular collections and model variants to help you pick just the one for yourself – or a loved one – this holiday season.
Being Ferrari means that you have a significant challenge. Where each new generation of Porsche’s 911 is an evolution, each Ferrari has to be a revolution: superior to its predecessor in often radical ways. Not every revolution empowers the right forces, but when it does, you get something like the Ferrari 488 GTB, a thoroughbred sportscar that even dips a tire into the supercar arena.
Just a few weeks ahead of the 2017 Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH), Cartier has announced three new timepieces. All three are very much expressions of what has been Cartier’s most basic design philosophy for the last hundred or so years: the use of technical watchmaking not for its own sake, but rather for the purpose of creating emotional and aesthetic effects. Cartier’s mystery clocks are one of the best examples of this approach at its most successful, and while these three timepieces likely sit right at the top of the horological food chain from a pricing perspective, they’re also expressions of a unique design approach and of out-of-the-box technical solutions. I think they will be of interest to anyone interested in watches. Let’s take a look.
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What we look for in a watch nowadays is not quite what it used to be. As you know, at Monochrome we do have a liking for different ways to indicate time. The simple art of telling the time has evolved into something almost magical, with each watch telling its own story and history. The Hawker Harrier II brings to life something that is only dreamt of – a Pegasus inspired pilots watch.
Greubel Forsey is financing Philippe DuFour to produce a film to record for posterity: watchmaking techniques that slowly are being lost, slowly are fading from memory. So that generations to come, people will have a recorded lesson, on how to do these steps of watchmaking. Philippe DuFour shows us what he is going to be […]