While there are many boutique watch brands creating disruptive designs, they tend to be timepieces that are attainable by an extremely limited proportion of watch enthusiasts. At SaStek watches, we believe such expression of one’s individuality should be available at an accessible cost.
Not all high-complications come with equally high price tags. With the Slimline Manufacture Perpetual Calendar, Frederique Constant is offering a stainless steel perpetual calendar for under $9,000. In some ways it’s a classic QP and in other ways it breaks with tradition, but if you’re someone who’s always wanted to sport a perpetual calendar but balked at the BMW-level cost, you should definitely take a closer look at this watch.
There is something about Hermès. The singularity of the Parisian house lies in a distinctive, enduring perception of elegance where craftsmanship, creativity, integrity and patience are carefully preserved. The new ‘Slim’ Hermès watches with their pure, artful simplicity are no exception. Their refined style, at once modern and timeless, is now enhanced with an exquisite enamel dial.
By Roberta Naas
While he didn’t enter any of his myriad of vintage cars into the Chantilly Arts & Elegance Richard Mille event this year, Richard Mille did unveil a new timepiece to the world during the incredibly elegant event. As the title sponsor of
Laurent Ferrier has got to be one of the most interesting independent watchmakers out there for more than one reason. And one of the loveliest watches that he makes today is the Galet Classic Square Sector Dial Tourbillon Double Spiral watch. Why do I think it’s so great? Read on and I will tell you.
Michael Schumacher Before Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher switched to Audemars Piguet, he was Omega ambassador since 1995. Omega honored him with many pieces, starting in 1996 with a Speedmaster Reduced model. These models came in different colors. Below is the yellow version we covered earlier. Schumacher was active in Formula 1 from 1991 till […]
Anyone that’s been to Basel will know what we’re talking about when we reference the ‘Basel bubble’. It’s a cross between Steve Jobs’ reality distortion field (in which anything seems possible and reasonable) and a casino – where you are cut off from natural light and fresh air with access to a bottomless flutes of champagne.…
An industrial designer best known for his furniture and lighting – the skeletonised, stacking Chair One being amongst his best known works – Konstantin Grcic was recruited to restyle the Rado Ceramica. Originally a sleek, shiny ceramic wristwatch characterised by unyielding straight lines, the new Ceramica by Konstantin Grcic has a friendlier form with rounded edges in matte ceramic, along with a […]
Journalists attending the de Grisogono press conference in Paris last Friday morning were in for a double treat.
I’ve long held that there is no retail experience more special than that found at Cartier’s home in New York City. The former Plant mansion was acquired in 1917 via a trade between Louis Cartier and Mr. Morton Plant, a Manhattan businessman, for a string of natural pearls for his wife – the deal is the stuff of legends. Later this week, my colleague Jack Forster will take us deep into the history of the Cartier Mansion, but today, the day Cartier’s storied home in New York City re-opens to the public, I wanted to take you inside this truly magical store.