Watches like the Parmigiani Ovale Pantographe come along only once in a rare while. This is a timepiece myself and others on the aBlogtoWatch team have been more or less smitten with for years… given its mixture of fantastic design, historical roots, and emotionally charged technical fascination.
After four years of Black Bay releases we expected the collection to take a well-earned rest on the Tudor bench in 2016. Well, that didn’t happen. Not only did the entire collection get an in-house upgrade and a new blacked-out model, but it was also given a bulkier, bronzed body.…
For a number of years, Octavio Garcia and design at Audemars Piguet were synonymous in the minds of many. Garcia was AP’s creative director from 2002 to 2015, when he left his position and was replaced by Claude Emmenegger, who had worked with AP many years ago on the very first Royal Oak Concept Watch. Garcia’s departure naturally gave rise to quite a bit of speculation as to what we might see next from one of the most prominent watch designers of the 2000s, and the answer, surprisingly, isn’t another high-profile job at an haute horlogerie brand: it’s the creation of a design-first, automotive-inspired watch that is two to three orders of magnitude less expensive than some of his projects for AP.
Perhaps the most famous luxury watch ever, the Rolex Datejust is over 70 years old, but looks much the same as it did decades ago. The unchanging aesthetic belies the significant improvements Rolex has made to its bestseller, culminating in the latest Datejust 41, powered by the next generation calibre 3235 movement. Though the new ceramic […]
Whimsy, frivolity, playfulness: these are not adjectives one often hears used to describe haute horlogerie. And yet these words accurately describe many watches or clocks built over the centuries. Take a journey with me now to discover my favorite modern whimsical masterpieces.
The use of bronze dates way back to the 5th Millennium BCE, with the oldest artefacts coming from the Iranian plateau during that era. Known for its durability at that time, bronze was widely used for a variety of items, including tools, weapons, and even ornamental products.…
If you’re into vintage cars and it’s late August, Monterey Car Week is without a doubt the place to be. This year we once again ventured out to California’s Central Coast to enjoy the sights and sounds at a few of the festivities – including the Quail Motorsports Gathering, the Vintage Rolex Meet-Up at Fourtané Jewelers, and, of course, the 2016 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Browse on for copious photos of the watches, and cars, that we saw along the way.
No less than a giant in the watch world, and with more than a few fans in the aBlogtoWatch community, our Cost of Entry series would be incomplete without Omega Watches and a look at the brand’s most affordable automatic timepiece available today.
Editor’s Note: It started with a post on LinkedIn by Richard Branson, which was titled ‘Great Beards come with Great Responsibility‘. My first thought was of a guy we’ve bumped into a few times in our travels with Time+Tide, Mr Jimmy Niggles.…
Don’t miss your chance to enter our August 2016 giveaway for a chance to win a Melbourne Watch Company Portsea Automatic watch on aBlogtoWatch.com. There are still a few days left, so click here to enter, as well as learn more about the watch and the giveaway. Good luck and don’t forget to check our awesome watch giveaways each month on aBlogtoWatch.