Speedmaster Albino – White Dial Speedmaster for the 40th Anniversary Remember our Speedy Tuesday article about Speedmasters with white dials (click here), we already included the Speedmaster Albino, or ‘Bianco Italiano’ there. However, in this week’s Speedy Tuesday installment I would like to zoom in a bit on that particular model. Speedmaster Professional 3593.20 Officially introduced […]
One of the hottest topics at this year’s Baselworld fair was TAG Heuer’s ’20k tourbillon’. And that nickname is even more impressive when you translate it into US, which gets it much closer to 15k. It represents the brand’s comparatively accessible take on that most hallowed (and most expensive) of complications. …
Editor’s Note: As a GMT-Master II owner I’m a sucker for stories about any Rolex GMT models. It’s a kinship that’s formed when you buy into a brand, and then a model. In Jungian terms, you form a link that is like a telephone line, and every time you see one, it rings.…
One of the inevitable realities of modern luxury is that what was once necessarily done by hand can now, as a general rule, be either duplicated or convincingly imitated by machine, to some degree or another. In watchmaking you can do things the old fashioned way, which usually means the more difficult and less efficient way, or you can use as much mechanization as you can get away with, given the price range at which you reside. It’s the same in almost anything else worth taking an interest in, as far as history and craft are concerned – lace was made by hand for much of its history but by the late 19th century you could duplicate just about any kind of hand-made lace on a machine.
There are shockingly few choices for modern GMT watches, especially when you think about just how many options you have when it comes to chronograph. In our modern age of easier-than-ever travel, there’s no more practical complication. Alpina has just released a new GMT that is both a simple GMT at one level and a more complicated adventure watch at another. Let’s take a look at the Alpiner 4 Automatic GMT.
Forged carbon has been “in” for a while, even though the material has been mostly reserved for but the most luxurious(-ly priced) brands. Dietrich is among the small but ever-growing army of very competitively priced brands to embrace this highly durable material and now adds some unique colors to it with the Dietrich O.Time Forged Carbon and its all-black or vividly colorful carbon bezel offerings – with one very cool trick up its sleeve.
Before Peter Speake-Marin set a trailblazing path as an independent watchmaker, he was a man oft depended upon by men like Max Busser and Steven Holtzman to get debut watches like the MB&F HM1 and Maitre Du Temp Chapters 1 and 2 off the ground; In over a decade’s worth of watches, the graduate of London’s Hackney Technical College…
When the three new IWC Ingenieur Chronograph models were shown to the watch press for the very first time, Monochrome was there, however we were not allowed to talk about it, nor to photograph the watch. And when we were allowed to cover the new Ingenieur Chronograph models, we only had the official PR photos and no hands-on photos. This type of photos that shows so well how a watch actually looks on the wrist, and that have emerged since there are watch blogs, like ours. So now we had the chance to go hands-on with all three new IWC Ingenieur Chronograph vintage editions and one of it’s ancestors…
Despite having a design that has remained largely unchanged since its initial introduction in 1954, Rolex’s Submariner watches – especially well-preserved vintage references – frequently receive the most attention (and brings in the highest prices) at auction.
It’s possible to walk by the Cartier Mansion, on the corner of 52nd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City, without much of an idea of what it represents. A lot of people undoubtedly do. It’s an impressive building – six stories of marble and granite, completed in 1905, in the neo-Renaissance style. The mansion sits in the shadow of a high-rise skyscraper – Olympic Towers – and in addition to having been the New York home of Cartier since 1917, it’s also one of the last remnants of a long-gone world that exists now only in fragments, along a stretch of Fifth Avenue that used to be home to some of America’s wealthiest and most powerful families.