With the SIHH 2017 coming up in a few weeks, brands are pre-releasing selected models to whet our appetites. Among them is Parmigiani Fleurier, which just released some new Tonda Metrographe watches, sporting tastefully redesigned dials and showing more discretion, resulting in great elegance. Here is an early hands-on look at these classic yet sporty new Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda Metrographe.
World Traveller’s Watches Some call it the best time ever, others hate it. Travelling around the world comes in many flavours, be it for work, leisure or perhaps even both. If you are a regular world traveller, you might want to have a world traveller’s watch to accompany you on these trips. They help you to […]
Parmigiani Fleurier has just updated its Tonda Métrographe watch with a fresh and new modern design to appeal to younger watch lovers and collectors. Let us tell you what’s new about one of Parmigiani’s most accessible models.
There are a few things everyone in the Time+Tide office can get behind 100 per cent: coffee, classic ’70s rock and blue watches. In fact, we spent a good portion of 2015 quietly losing it over how stunning Blancpain’s Bathyscaphe Ocean Commitment was, with its lustrous blue dial and grey ceramic case. So when we heard earlier this year that the brand would release a follow-up watch, we were honestly sceptical as to how it could be topped. As it turns out, all it took was for Blancpain to flip it. The dial is now a slate grey sunburst and the case is an incredible blue brushed ceramic. It’s a simple change, but the result is a startlingly different watch, more understated than last year’s effort, which is somewhat surprising given the remarkable case. What hasn’t changed is the tangible good that buying this watch does for the world. At the Australian launch, VP and head of marketing Alain Delamuraz revealed that Blancpain has been donating one million Euro a year to marine conservation for the past seven years, resulting in three million square kilometres of ocean being protected. In addition, one thousand Euro from the sale of each and every Ocean…
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The Patek Philippe ref. 2499 is an expensive wristwatch; one particularly rare specimen – third series, pink gold – sold for US$2.54m in May 2016, becoming the priciest watch sold at auction in Asia. At its third Hong Kong watch auction taking place on November 29, Phillips will offer a comparatively affordable – it is […]
The retrograde indication is one of my favorite “Because We Can” (BWC) complications. Gears are an amazing invention and have allowed watchmakers to make incredible creations. Simple gear systems leave a multitude of openings for creativity. Look at some great examples of it here!
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As a sponsor of the 27th Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), IWC marked the occasion with the inaugural IWC Filmmaker Award for the region, handed to Trần Anh Hùng. An award-winning Vietnamese-born French director, Trần is best known for Cyclo and The Scent of Green Papaya, which clinched the Caméra d’Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. Having long cultivated ties with […]
Ever since the female of the species began wearing trousers circa the 1920s, they’ve been gradually but persistently encroaching into the territory of men. Never has the saying ‘give them an inch’ been more relevant. Next minute, they had the right to follow whatever career path they fancied and the freedom to get a short haircut without bringing shame on the entire family, and the world was upside down. Women wearing men’s watches is just the latest example of this invasion – and you know what? Get used to it. Full disclosure: I am a woman, so I’ll stop with this ‘they’ nonsense. After centuries of not having a choice, we can finally do what we like, so is it at all surprising that we’re making the most of that? I frankly just feel disappointed that you blokes find it so much harder than we do when it comes to blurring gender lines. Go on – wear a skirt. There’s nothing stopping you. So, in service to women (and men, who now have the ultimate partner-pleasing justification for their next watch, i.e. “Honey, it’s our new watch”), here is Time+Tide’s pick of six men’s watches that often find themselves on the wrists of women – and our take on why…
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