Apollo-Soyuz In 2014, we already covered the Speedmaster Apollo-Soyuz and the background of this watch: The Apoll0-Soyuz mission in 1975. Two super powers forgot about the Cold War for just a moment by docking the Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts at an altitude of 138 miles. Launched at the 15th of July in 1975, the docking took […]
Remember in 2013, Swatch (the brand, not the Group) introduced a new watch that came like a blast, a watch in the vein of the affordable and fun idea of the brand, with an immense respect to the 1983 concept, but with a stupendous amount of innovation, as carrying in its plastic case the first automatic movement produced in-house by Swatch… and in a very specific industrial way. This was the Swatch Sistem51 (that we extensively reviewed and explained here). For those who are resistant to plastic cases, here is the new Swatch Sistem51 Irony, the automatic Swatch now in Steel.
With world time, home time, local jumping time and date, the DB25 World Traveller is a white gold salute to traveling in style.
You don’t need to have visited Australia to know one thing about us: we love sport. In fact, love is too lightweight a word. We worship it; playing sport, watching it, talking about it, listening to people talk about it, if sport’s involved we are there.…
Typical of the brand’s timepieces, the F.P. Journe Souveraine minute repeater is a slim, elegant wristwatch with an ingenious movement featuring Journe’s signature flat hammers and gongs for the striking mechanism that also characterise the top of the line Sonnerie Souveraine. In fact, when the Souveraine minute repeater was first unveiled in 2008, it was the thinnest minute repeating wristwatch […]
If you live in New York City or any similarly-sweltering place devoid of a good beach or anywhere with a real breeze, you likely spent the weekend sitting inside your home with the air condition blasting, cold drink in hand, and the Olympics on TV. I did. One of the highlights was Wayde van Niekerk winning gold and setting a new world record in the men’s 400m sprint. Even better: he did it with a Richard Mille on his wrist.
Beginning in September, a Montblanc for BMW Centennial Fountain Pen will accompany each of the 100 new BMW 7 Series Jubilee Edition The Next 100 Years autos purchased at BMW dealerships. The distinctive design of the car’s Merino leather interior is replicated on the intricate grid design of the pen’s cap and barrel. What else is special about this writing instrument? Read on to find out.
Finer details of watchmaking, including different finishing techniques and proprietary movement construction solutions are very much common knowledge among watch enthusiasts. Haute joaillerie, or “high jewelry,” on the other hand, is a more rarely discussed element in these circles, even though it is very much an integral part of some of the finest timepieces in the world.
Watch (and space) nerds, rejoice! This one is sure to get any red-blooded Apollo astronaut wannabe excited. Late last night, around midnight EST, Mr. Buzz Aldrin, the second human being to step onto the lunar surface, tweeted that he is designing a new watch for Omega. And this watch will go to Mars!
Glashütte Original Sixties Collection The Glashütte Original Sixties collection is based on the caliber 70.1 and 70.3 watches that this manufacture produced in the, well, 1960s. Personally, I know Glashütte Original best for its Senator collection and collection of sports watches that they produced years ago, by the name of Sport Evolution. That has been […]