It’s been quite some time since I wrote about a Swiss Favre-Leuba watch (2009 was the last time, actually). The interesting company has been around for ages, and today mostly produces quirky-cool sport watches with interesting complications.
If you’re ever going to find five great British watches anywhere, it most certainly would be at SalonQP, the UK’s premier watch event. So without further ado, I present you five British watches on show at the 2016 SalonQP in London.
The grande sonnerie and petite sonnerie hold a special place in the world of Haute Horlogerie. There are only a handful of watchmakers capable of manufacturing (and proposing in their catalogues) such works of arts, often regarded as the pinnacle of complicated watchmaking. Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey have been contemplating this major endeavor for years, way before embarking on 11 years of research and development to finally present their own interpretation of this complication, a ‘sui generis’ creation that was without doubt one of the highlights of SIHH 2017.
If you’re not already familiar with Britain-based watch maker Farer, you should be. This young company has hit the market with some vintage-inspired timepieces retailing for just over $1,000 and they look pretty great while doing so too. The watch pictured here is the Endurance from the relatively new collection of automatic watches, the second set of releases after the brand’s quartz debut. It’s worth a closer look.
By Roberta Naas
Stunning new timepieces unveiled last month in Geneva demonstrate the ability of top brands like Van Cleef & Arpels, Piaget and Bulgari to take haute jaoillerie and high watchmaking to new levels. Here we bring
Very rarely do you hear about watches being sold on a government website. Yet, the Italian Ministry of Defense made a spectacular announcement last September when it revealed that it would auction 40 pieces of the military-issued Breitling reference 817, all in one single lot. This was a very exciting news on many accounts, and not only for vintage Breitling enthusiasts. The Breitling reference 817 is an extremely elusive chronograph, manufactured in 1975 for the helicopter pilots of the Italian Army. One can only imagine the small size of the overall production, and the even smaller number of surviving pieces, with fewer than 40 having been accounted for, up until now. A couple of months after the auction, it is now time to think about what effect these “new” Breitlings, all suddenly reaching the market at once, have on the vintage market and the value of this historic military chronograph.
SIHH has always been full of surprises, and this year is no exception. We witnessed for the first time a Royal Oak in all ceramic, Greubel Forsey joining an exalted group of manufacturers with their first grand sonnerie timepiece, and yes, a million-dollar watch made of cheese. …
Born from the singular vision of Henri d’Origny, who invented it in 1991 by sketching a square inside a rectangle, the Hermès Cape Cod has become a signature watch for the brand. Yet, at that time, La Montre d’hermes was not what it is now. While today the brand can argue of in-house movements and a …
What drew me to the Citizen Eco-Drive Super Titanium AW0060 collection of watches was a combination of price, design, and features. This isn’t the last watch you’ll ever need, but it is a great watch for the money and, more importantly, has a lot more personality than most timepieces at this price.
The Bronzo Returns! could be the title of a Marvel or DC Comics episode. But we’re talking watches here. In 2011, Panerai introduced the first Bronzo to us, the reference PAM00382. Only 1000 pieces were produced and all sold within a blink of the eye. Paneristi who were able to buy one, were (are) very happy. […]