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Rare Watches: Vianney Halter Classic

Review of the rare Vianney Halter Classic.

Spot The Watch: Les Wexner, CEO of L Brands

This weeks Spot The Watch is on Les Wexner, the CEO of L Brands, which owns Victoria's Secret

Review: Angelus U10 Tourbillon Lumière

Review Angelus U10 Tourbillon Lumière full hands on analysis of the newly revived brand with a deconstructed tourbillon by Fabrique du Temps and Citizen

Glashütte Original Senator Cosmopolite: For Those Who Call The World Their Home

Watches aimed at frequent travelers come in many shapes and forms. Some simply feature a second time zone, while others incorporate additional complications like a chronograph or full calendar. In recent years, we have seen a strong increase in watches offering complications aimed very specifically at the needs of the traveler. In 2012, Glashütte Original […]

Review: Glashütte Original Senator Cosmopolite

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Review of the MB&F; Melchior Table Clock

We take a closer look at the cool MB&F; Melchior Table Clock inspired by the childhood of MB&F; Founder Maximilian Busser

Zenith Celebrates the Tour Auto Race in Grand (Palais) Style

Launched in 1899, the Tour Auto is the oldest automotive race still running, and Zenith celebrated its roles as rally participant and official timer by launching the new El Primero Chronomaster 1969 Tour Auto Edition in Paris. The Tour Auto event brings together vintage rally cars to participate in a multi-day series of events including […]

Review: Bremont Jaguar Mk1

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Baselworld 2015: Hublot Big Bang Chrono Perpetual Calendar

Hublot Big Bang Chrono Perpetual Calendar

Frederique Constant Enters A Brave New World with the Horological Smartwatch

Truth be told, when watch journalists such as myself were told about a new big launch that was coming up by Frederique Constant, I was interested, being a fan of the brand. Yet, when I was told that it would be a Smartwatch, I started to become very curious. What would it look like I […]

A. Lange & Söhne celebrates the 200th Birthday of its founder F.A. Lange with a limited edition 1815 timepiece

A. Lange & Söhne F.A. Lange 1815 "200th Anniversary"

Genuine World Traveler: Frederique Constant Worldtimer Manufacture

Located on the outskirts of Geneva is Plan-les-Ouates, and in a municipality that can rank an impressive amount of watchmakers amongst its inhabitants is  Frederique Constant. The fact that the brand can count old and respectable names such as Piaget and Vacheron Constantin as its neighbors not only says something about it’s location, but also […]

Blancpain Saint-Valentin 2015: A rose to say I love you

Blancpain Saint-Valentin 2015: A rose to say I love you

From Big to Bigger - A Conversation With Jordy Cobelens of TW Steel

The world of horology is an interesting one, from masterful creations of movements to dials of every shape and size. We’d burn holes in our pockets to get that prized watch on our wrists and we’d know it was worth every single cent. But how wonderful it would be to have a watch to call your own […]

Rolex Cellini Date: the other Rolex

Chopard’s Universe Of Clocks

While many watch connoisseurs have a wide variety of watches and change them often, the clocks in one’s house tend to stay where they were initially placed. They truly become daily companions, timing the pace of life at one’s home. Most watch brands have, over the span of their existence, flirted casually or more seriously […]

Coloured Dials! The World Between Black & White.

Labor Of Love: Vintage Safes For Modern Day Life

There is a terrible downside to high end watches; that can attract the more criminal parts of our societies to obtain what it not theirs. That means that most brand boutiques and jewelry stores have more security measures then most banks. Before entering them you need to pass through bullet proof glass doors, opened by […]

THE PATEK PHILLIPE GRANDMASTER CHIME 175TH ANNIVERSARY - The Patek Philippe Ref. 5175 Perpetual Date Repeater, Grand Sonnerie, Minute Repeater And Alarm, A Masterpiece Of Chiming Complications

Leading up to Patek Philippe’s 175th anniversary, speculation and anticipation were running wild in watch enthusiast circles around the globe. And the recurring theme rising to the forefront of the collective Patek devotee’s imagination was that of a grande sonnerie. A grande sonnerie is a watch that features a minute repeater but is also able […]

Visiting Cartier’s TimeArt Exhibition In Shanghai

The most important employee for Cartier in Shanghai is a quiet, modest lady with a rag. It is her job to keep the exhibition cabinets clean and transparent, and that sounds a lot easier than it is when inside these cabinets are the finest watches, clocks and objects of art that Cartier has created throughout […]

Bottom Time: Tudor Pelagos

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 […]

Star Power: Up Close And Personal With The Hybris Artistica Gyrotourbillon 1 From Jaeger LeCoultre

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 […]

Chopard L.U.C Qualité Fleurier: Simplicity is Key

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

Earliest Enthusiast Use Of The Term "In-House" Discovered?

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 […]

Earliest Enthusiast Use Of The Term “In-House” Discovered?

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 […]

Terra Cielo Mare shows us the Submarine Inspired Tazzoli

[ooyala code=”NhZzlkbjpIAXOXrLEU_No5wyxzPBysiE” player_id=”906938bb2f324c93a733b2fb3b34b260″ width=”750″ height=”590″] Terra Cielo Mare is a relatively new under the radar brand that impressed us with their limited edition Tazzoli watch. Hear Luca Fontana, owner of the brand, introduce this watch as well as other pieces in the range, including the watch worn by Brad Pitt’s character in the movie “World […]

BaselWorld 2014: Belles of the Fair: Speake-Marin Magister

Speake-Marin may be a relatively new independent watchmaking brand, but its impact has been tremendous. And with the new Magister Tourbillon, it just gets better. The folks at Deployant has been fans of Speake-Marin since its inception. Personally, I have a soft spot for the brand. One of the most distinct features of the watch would be theRead More

Jaeger LeCoultre Launches The Geophysic 1958

“International Geophysical Year” sounds, to the modern ear, about as sexy as a road accident, but despite the dull name, that year and the events surrounding it gave birth to a watch that many collectors today think is one of the sexiest of all time: the Jaeger LeCoultre Geophysic.  The Geophysic is a true connoisseur’s […]

Interrogate your watchmaker: How Greubel-Forsey does her screws

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Comparative Review: JLC Tribute to Deep Sea and Vulcain Nautical Seventies Part 1 of 2

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