The Watch-Loving Saturday Morning Sad Bastards
Revolution’s Editor-at-Large and his circle of watch-loving friends have been meeting up for a quarter-century-plus. Not too long ago, we caught them enjoying the Kent sun.
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Revolution’s Editor-at-Large and his circle of watch-loving friends have been meeting up for a quarter-century-plus. Not too long ago, we caught them enjoying the Kent sun.
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Chester's Christmas picks from Patek to VC to De Bethune and Grand Seiko Credor. California Dreaming? Or an exercise in honing vision?
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For some reason we’ve been humming ‘The Girl from Ipanema’ this week and exhibiting a far greater than usual interest in the sports of fencing and field hockey (the Kookaburras beat the Irish 1-0 on Wednesday). It must also be said that the occasional call and response of Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi! Has … ContinuedThe post FRIDAY WIND DOWN: 5th August, 2016 – Manga, irony and a suspiciously familiar dial appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Appointed recently as the new creative director of Audemars Piguet, Claude Emmenegger is no stranger to the brand or to watchmaking. At SIHH earlier this year, revolution met the creator of the Tradition of Excellence series and the very first Royal Oak Concept in 2002, who has made his mark in the world of horology.
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Tales of legendary watch collectors are legion, like the guy with one of every Greubel-Forsey model or 50 Rolex “Paul Newman” Daytonas. One collection that is not contested, because its owner produced a book documenting some of its treasures, is said to be even greater than the accumulation by the brand itself. Marcus Margulies, owner […]
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Deadbeat seconds are popular this year, and the Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Deadbeat is an especially compelling example. Behind that beautiful dial, there’ s a new, patented caliber. The new Grande Seconde Deadbeat incorporates several subtle design elements. The Grande Seconde timepieces already featured, well, Grande Secondes. To place even greater emphasis on the seconds […]
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If you know vintage watches, you know Angelus. Manufacture La Joux-Perret is reviving the brand, and the first new watch is sure to be a surprise. To many collectors, Angelus is best known as a creator of great-looking chronographs and multi-complication watches, especially chronographs with date, day and moon phase displays. The brand’s notable firsts […]
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One wonders how it is possible for watch companies to constantly pump out new products for eager watch lovers every year. The pace of innovation is necessarily fast, with competition abounding from every quarter, and the fickle crowd waiting to abandon yesterday’s darling for today’s star. Couple that with the fact that every watch that […]
One of the most dramatic technological innovations in recent memory is the OMEGA Co-Axial caliber 8508. It is resistant to magnetic fields greater than 1.5 tesla (15,000 gauss), far exceeding the levels of magnetic resistance achieved by any previous watch movement and solving a problem that has challenged watchmakers for many decades. The mechanical movement […]
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Among the independent watch creators, URWERK is notable for having succeeded in making watches that (we at REVOLUTION have always thought) succeed better than most at seamlessly combining mechanics and aesthetics into a whole greater than the sum of its parts. At this year’s BaselWorld they continued their winning streak with, among other things, a […]
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There are few grande complications greater in technical difficulty to the minute repeater and the ultra-thin movement may also be considered a complication in its own right. This “latest embodiment of virtuosity” while a bombastic turn of marketing-speak for Piaget is an accurate description of their SIHH 2013 offering. For me, the Piaget Emperador Ultra-Thin […]
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A quarter-mile offshore and 80 feet below the surfaceof Lake Superior, my friend, Chris, and I found the Madeira’s pilothouse - standing upright, its compass binnacle still intact, belying the violence of the ship’s demise. The rest of the wreck is strewn over an acre of lakebed - twisted bollards, winches torn free and the […]
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Celebrity watch collections can tell you a lot about someone’s taste — especially when Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Richard Mille, Cartier, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Omega, Tudor, IWC, Tag Heuer, G-Shock, and J...
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James Bond is most famous for wearing the Rolex Submariner and the Omega Seamaster, perhaps more than all his other watches in the franchise. His creator Ian Fleming wore the equally iconic Rolex Explorer 1016, and he...
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Welcome to the watch releases update for the first week of 2026. We have some great new watch models from: Tissot, Breguet, Credor, Porsche Design and more. Enjoy the video:)
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