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Deployant reviews the new Apple Watch and discusses its impact on the world of traditional haute horology

What I thought would be the celebration party for the 10th Anniversary of Hautlence, turned out to be a combination of festivities and the launch of an important new men’s watch, the ‘Invictus Morphos’ Chronograph! – “Case à Chocs” night club in Neuchatel – Friends of the House, distributers and Press were invited to come […]

Graham’s Chronofighter Oversize collection is designed to be impervious to all dangers of the outdoors, offering adventurers and daredevils a selection of tough, sporty and reliable chronographs. This year, Graham extends the existing line with the Chronofighter Oversize Black Arrow, a military-inspired timepiece designed for those with a thirst for thrills. At 47mm, the Chronofighter […]

Baume et Mercier knows a thing or two about elegance. Actually, elegance is what they do best. This could have something to do with the fact that in 1918 William Baume joined forces with jeweler Paul Mercier, forming the companiey’s current name, which resulted in a collection of remarkably shaped watches the year after. Their steel […]

I do believe things happen for a reason – that a higher order has things aligned and that coincidences as we know are written in the stars. Who would have thought that in my recent trip to Switzerland, I discovered how small this world is.   I was in the picturesque Switzerland recently on aRead More

Rare Watches: Voutilainen Détente Escapement Tourbillon Wristwatch

In the world of watchmaking, there is news, and there’s actual news.  Here we have the latter: the Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Tourbillon Chronograph. This is something rather special.  Combining a tourbillon with a chronograph is never a trivial challenge, but what we’ve got here is a fully integrated, in-house tourbillon chronograph movement, that also uses […]

Whenever we talk about Graham watches, either some aviator theme watches or the Chronofighters with the trademark “fast-action start/ stop trigger” beside the crown would subconsciously come to mind. This time round, Graham did something a little unorthodox, and the result is simply out of this world!   Before we start talking about this timepiece, letsRead More

Motoring slowly along the line of buoys, five of us leaned over the starboard gunwale, scanning the clear water through polarized lenses. It had been a quiet day with no sharks in sight - unless you count the lazy nurse sharks begging for bait scraps in the marina. We’d spent languid hours between line checks […]

Panerai has something that no other brand has this much of. It is one of the rarest commodities in watchmaking, and many watchmakers lose sleep over the lack of it. That commodity is space. You’d expect a Panerai to be big and bulky since it is an essential part of the DNA of the brand. […]

In Conversation: Stefano Macaluso, Product Development Director, Girard Perregaux

Just when you want to tip the brakes on your Porsche 911 Turbo S Convertible to steer into that hairpin, your Vertu starts ringing. What this has to do with watches? Well, the ceramic brakes of your Porsche, as well as the ceramic housing of your Vertu are made of the exact same material that […]

Last year we heard rumours that MCT (Manufacture Contemperaine du Temps), one of the most creative Swiss Independent brands would announce their second model. In March, this year the brand confirmed that the Sequence TWO would be presented at Basel World. We reported briefly about the watch HERE. The Sequential ONE, with its gorgeous cushion […]

Boutiques are becoming more and more important in the strategy of watch brands to sell their product to the public. Of course their is a lot in favour of the boutique. You can have you own staff, focus only on your product and really immerse customers into the world surrounding your brand. Most watch brands […]

One thing that impresses us about the Japanese would be their great attention to intricate details. The integrity of their efforts are telling- products from Lexus and Canon can easily testify that. But of course, when it comes to watchmaking, there are not many watchmakers that are close to matching this particular brand with regards to both quality andRead More

What makes a luxury watch more coveting than its entirety designed and manufactured in-house plus being sold exclusively in only ten boutiques in the world? Described as a monomaniac by some, 57-year-old French self-taught watchmaker, François-Paul Journe took five years to make his first and very own tourbillon which earned him a reputation in the watchmaking […]

The universe sometimes works in mysterious ways. With the passing of Robin Williams, the world has lost one of its greatest comedians. His daughter Zelda quoted Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “The Little Prince” to commemorate him, and at the same time IWC is commemorating Antoine de Saint-Exupéry himself with a limited edition dedicated to his last […]

Sometimes you just get bored with it; Brands that release a seemingly never-ending avalanche of variations of existing models, the difference between them often minor. The same could have been said of Jaeger-LeCoultre’s approach to the Grande Reverso Ultra Thin 1931 collection, yet here however, every new variation seems to actually make sense. Not in […]

Affordable watches: A quick look at the Jeanrichard trio: Terrascope, Aquascope and Aeroscope

The Gyrotourbillon 1 was first introduced by Jaeger LeCoultre in 2004 as what would be the first of a series of multi-axis tourbillon wristwatches, the theoretical goal of which was to create variations on the tourbillon suitable for a wristwatch rather than a pocket watch.  Each of the Gyrotourbillon wristwatches has a different configuration of […]

It is said that those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it, but in the case of horology –especially nowadays –the past is constantly being mined enthusiastically for inspiration –sometimes with antecedents acknowledged, and credit given where it’s due, and sometimes not, with the hope that nobody will notice that […]

Whenever Rolex is about to launch a new timepiece, there would always be a plethora of hype and speculation in the watch community. It was therefore not surprising that there was a lot of excitement when Rolex announced that they will be launching a new variant of the popular Deepsea Seadweller (also known as theRead More

Cartier’s Time Art exhibition has arrived in Shanghai. After the show at the Bellerive Museum in Zurich in 2011 and at the ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands, in Singapore in 2012, Time Art is back in Asia with a new exhibition of remarkable vintage watches and clocks. – Power Station Of Art, Shanghai – […]

In a recent article I produced for Revolution about manufacture status, I concluded with the following: “manufacture status is no guaranteed measure of quality nor prestige, while non-manufacture status doesn’t diminish the worth of a top-quality timepiece.” It’s the watch as a whole, not just the pedigree. I also pointed out was the FACT that […]

There are quite a few watchmakers that have the capability and resources to make watches that are of the highest quality. Chopard L.U.C is one of them, but their efforts have always been eclipsed by their more illustrious competitors. Will the Qualité Fleurier be able to circumvent those circumstances? Chopard do not create just watches, they createRead More

Return With Us Now, To Those Thrilling Days Of Yesteryear Dept: Out of morbid curiosity, I decided to go to the very first place I ever expressed an opinion about a watch on the Internet: the alt.horology usenet newsgroup (remember those, kids?) The oldest attested use preserved (I checked with Google’s newsreader) is from a […]