With the release of the Luminor 1950 Equation of Time 8 Days GMT Titanium Panerai is placing one of haute horlogerie’s most misunderstood complications into the classic Luminor package. Primarily known as one of the archetypal tool-watches, this latest release plucks the Luminor from the depths of the ocean and puts it in the planetarium.…
One of the hottest watches in the mid-2000s, the BR 01 has now entered maturity, and so has to go further to stand out. While keeping the aviation instrument-inspired watch case, the BR 01 Burning Skull is elaborately decorated with inked engravings. Covering all faces of the square case, the Burning Skull radically different look from the […]
Officine Panerai, celebrated the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge over the holiday weekend in Newport, Rhode Island. Winners of the event announced.
The technical development of the chronograph is a fascinating story, and there may be no one more qualified to tell it than Dr. Sébastien Chaulmontet, Head of Movement Design for Arnold & Son, Angelus Watches, and La Joux-Perret. At the September meeting of the Horological Society of New York, Dr. Chaulmontet will lecture on the history of the chronograph, from its predecessors to the creation of the so-called modern (pocket) chronograph.
In a press conference in Geneva today, Frederique Constant CEO Peter Stas announced that subsidiary MMT Swiss Connect has been spun off into its own independent company that was not included as part of the Citizen acquisition earlier this year. Stas also introduced MMT’s new CEO, its latest products, and its new business model. And we’ve got a lot to say about it all.
The Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris will host for the first time a thematic exhibition staged by the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie illustrating the history of watchmaking and the the tracing of the measurement of time.
Cartier actually has quite a rich history when it comes to driver’s watches, but has never been very outspoken about it. Until the new Drive de Cartier came along.
The Genequand escapement, housed inside the Senfine concept watch, was probably the single most technically interesting development in real hardcore watchmaking that we saw at either SIHH or Baselworld earlier this year. In June, we started digging a bit deeper into how Parmigiani Fleurier managed to take Pierre Genequand’s original concept and turn it into a working escapement in a wristwatch with a 70-day (and no, that’s not a typo) power reserve.
This weeks Spot the Watch is camera related and was brought to our attention by a friend of Deployant. He spotted an article in Het Financieele Dagblad, a Dutch financial paper that was on the CEO of Hasselblad Cameras, Perry Oosting and his favourite items.…
When first introduced at Baselworld 2014, the Speake-Marin Spirit Seafire was the first chronograph of the brand (introduced alongside the Spirit Wing Commander, creating a new collection of sports watches). You’ll have to admit, coming from a man like Peter Speake Marin, more used to highly complicated watches and well known for his superior watchmaking skills, this was rather surprising. A more commercial-oriented piece for sure, plus also being a sportier development of a growing brand, the Spirit Seafire Chronograph is however still (very much) a Speake-Marin watch… just with a different perspective. Let’s look in details what a Speake-Marin for a larger audience can offer.
