The Graf von Faber-Castell collection – or “Graf” as it’s known to pen buffs – is Faber-Castell’s top-of-the-line series of pens; it includes premium writing instruments, like the recently released Pen of the Year, among others. The Pen of the Year for 2016 was inspired by Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, a 1,441-room residence that became the cultural and political center of the Hapsburg Empire.
Just how big is the vintage trend? Even famous Rolex customizer Bamford Watch Department has an entire collection dedicated to vintage-inspired Rolex watches. The new Bamford Heritage Explorer I and Bamford Heritage Bicolor Paul Newman Daytona are the latest addition to Bamford’s Heritage collection.
It was almost a year ago that we first launched the HODINKEE app for iOS. Since then our product team has been tirelessly adding features, adjusting layouts, and generally grinding away to make sure that every time you hit that black and white “H” on your homescreen (and we know it’s on your homescreen) you get the very best experience possible. Well, today we take another big leap forward with a major update: the HODINKEE app has been specially redesigned for iPad to bring you what just might be the best way to read HODINKEE, period.
The Rolex Day-Date has been at the top of their non-sports collection since 1958. This year, celebrating its 60th Anniversary, Rolex released the Day-Date 40 in 18k white gold and Everose with a distinctive green dial. But the piece which has attracted our attention all this while is the Day-Date 40 in platinum revealed in Baselworld 2015. We…
Chronoswiss Régulateur Before I start with the review of the Chronoswiss Flying Regulator, let me give you a brief history on my own experience as a Chronoswiss Régulateur owner. It must have been around Christmas 2000, when I got my own Chronoswiss Régulateur. Régulateur, not Regulator. At some point, Chronoswiss changed the wording. 1987 The […]
If you think about Giuliano Mazzuoli – in case you know it, and if not, now you know – you might have in mind a minimalistic but recognizable design as well as the use of fancy materials, rarely to never seen in watchmaking, like for instance marble or cement – yes, the case is made with these materials! Well if you think this is going a bot too far for, there might a solution in-between these and a traditional black or white dial, with the new Giuliano Mazzuoli Manometro with green and blue dials.
You thought that TAG Heuer was only about to do normal watches, with a more entry-level objective – and we thought that too, especially after what we told you here. Well, it seems that it’s not going to be the case and that concept watches, even if rare, are still part of the new strategy implemented by Mister Biver. As a proof, TAG Heuer will launch a new limited and exclusive watch, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Mikrograph, the first stopwatch able to time events to the 1/100th of a second. Here is the highly desirable 2016 TAG Heuer Mikrograph 100th Anniversary, the TAG that goes vintage and fast, as still to the 1/100th of a second.
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.