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Baselworld 2014: The Hermès Dressage L’Heure Masquée Continues The Art Of The Whimsical Complication (Video)

Hermes Mar 28, 2014

Baselworld 2014: The Hermès Dressage L’Heure Masquée Continues The Art Of The Whimsical Complication (Video)

There’s something beautiful about whimsical complications, the kind that purposely disregards the utilitarian function of a watch: that of telling time, in order to make a statement. Like the well regarded Hermès Arceau Le Temps Suspendu, the new Dressage L’Heure Masquée (literally “Time Hidden”) from the same brand continues their somewhat playful obsession, that of making the […]

Baselworld 2014: Hands On With The Zenith El Primero Lightweight (Live Pics)

Zenith El Primero Lightweight Live Mar 28, 2014

Baselworld 2014: Hands On With The Zenith El Primero Lightweight (Live Pics)

Surprise was what the Zenith El Primero Stratos Flyback Striking 10th chronograph elicited when it was first shown at BaselWorld in 2010. The mesmerizing effect of the large red hand moving faster than expected was, without doubt, what most watch lovers would define as their “Striking 10th moment”, when previous expectations on how a chronograph […]

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

Vulcain Nautical Seventies Part 1 Mar 28, 2014

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

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Baselworld 2014: Pita Barcelona Introduces The Roadster - A Chronograph With An Edgy Look

Baselworld 2014: Pita Barcelona Introduces The Roadster - A Chronograph With An Edgy Look

Watches are probably what doesn’t come to mind when you think about Spain, yet an very extraordinary watch brand calls it home. Pita Barcelona was founded by master-watchmaker Aniceto Jiménez Pita, who became a candidate member of AHCI in 2004 and was accepted as a full member in 2006. Pita’s style isn’t about overly complicated […]

BASELWORLD DIARY - DAY ONE

BASELWORLD DIARY - DAY ONE

My first BaselWorld day kicked off with the traditional fair press conference where I discovered that Swiss exports were up 1.9%, that I was one of a staggering 4,000 journalists visiting the show, and one of the 50 percent of people working in the Swiss watch industry who aren’t actually Swiss! I wasn’t quite […]

Hands On: A Look At A Star Of Baselworld Last Year, The Tudor FastRider Blackshield

Tudor FastRider Blackshield Some watches Mar 26, 2014

Hands On: A Look At A Star Of Baselworld Last Year, The Tudor FastRider Blackshield

Some watches have the ability to grab your heart and never let go, and the love becomes all the more intense when the watch reveals it’s magic only when you get closer. This was the curious experience I had with the Tudor FastRider Black Shield, that while having been in the market for close to a […]

Baselworld 2014 - Grönefeld Presents The Parallax Tourbillon - (Live Photos & Pricing)

Grönefeld Presents Mar 25, 2014

Baselworld 2014 - Grönefeld Presents The Parallax Tourbillon - (Live Photos & Pricing)

Tim & Bart Grönefeld’s Facebook teasers have been confirmed; the brand had indeed something special cooking for Baselworld 2014. The two extra ordinary watch makers will be presenting their second tourbillon model, this week at Basel World 2014! Last week a couple of friends of the house and yours truly, had a preview of the […]

REVOLUTION Goes to BaselWorld 2014!

REVOLUTION Goes to BaselWorld 2014!

It’s that time of the year again when the entire watch industry gathers in the picturesque city of Basel, to show the world what they’ve been busy with. Brands, Journalists, Retailers and Fans of the watch industry will certainly have much to look forward in this yearly extravaganza, and we at REVOLUTION will expect nothing […]

Philippe Léopold-Metzger, CEO of Piaget Explains the Novelties for SIHH 2014 (Video)

Piaget Explains Mar 21, 2014

Philippe Léopold-Metzger, CEO of Piaget Explains the Novelties for SIHH 2014 (Video)

The Altiplano 900P claims the crown for the thinnest mechanical watch in the world, and CEO of Piaget explains the process of his creation as well as the other dazzling novelties for SIHH 2014. Interviewed by Wei Koh. Read Revolution International Digital Editon on iPad, Android or desktop with the Zinio newsstand app. Also, please […]

EXCLUSIVE: Jacob & Co Looks To The Sky With The Astronomia Tourbillon (VIDEO)

Jacob & Co Looks Mar 18, 2014

EXCLUSIVE: Jacob & Co Looks To The Sky With The Astronomia Tourbillon (VIDEO)

Watchmaker-jeweller Jacob & Co have given REVOLUTION an exclusive look at their new Baselworld 2014 novelty, the Astronomia Tourbillon. Look at the video of this extraordinary watch here that combines the highest levels of watchmaking prowess, with the soul-searching wonder of the night sky.

Brief Impressions Review: Breguet Reine de Naples

Breguet Reine de Naples DEPLOYANT Mar 9, 2014

Brief Impressions Review: Breguet Reine de Naples

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Panerai CEO Angelo Bonati, talks about Chronographs, Pocket Watches and the P5000 In-house movement (Video)

Panerai CEO Angelo Bonati talks Mar 5, 2014

Panerai CEO Angelo Bonati, talks about Chronographs, Pocket Watches and the P5000 In-house movement (Video)

Panerai CEO Angelo Bonati takes us through the novelties for the brand at the 2014 SIHH, including the new Radomir Chronograph, the Radomir pocket watch and the new “8 Days” wall coming with the in-house P5000 movement. Interviewed by Wei Koh. Read Revolution International Digital Editon on iPad, Android or desktop with the Zinio […]

Ladies: Mechanical or Quartz?

Ladies: Mechanical or Quartz?

During a recent press introduction of a new watch I was sitting next to an editor of a major fashion magazine. She was expressing her unhappiness about her watch. This had very little to do with the brand it was from, but everything with the fact that it was an automatic. She loved the watch, […]

Brief Impressions Review: Zenith Montre d’Aéronef Type 20 GMT Pilot

Zenith Montre d’Aéronef Type 20 Feb 24, 2014

Brief Impressions Review: Zenith Montre d’Aéronef Type 20 GMT Pilot

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The Collector’s View: Seiko Blue Monster SRP455K1 Review

Seiko Blue Monster SRP455K1 Review Feb 19, 2014

The Collector’s View: Seiko Blue Monster SRP455K1 Review

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Oldies but goodies: Urwerk 103

Urwerk 103 DEPLOYANT - Feb 18, 2014

Oldies but goodies: Urwerk 103

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Shinola Joins Forces With Bruce Weber

Shinola Feb 14, 2014

Shinola Joins Forces With Bruce Weber

Since its creation in 2011, the Detroit based Shinola has become known for a number of quality products including bicycles, journals and watches. The company pays homage to the American worker by maintaining its watch manufacturing factory in Detroit, Michigan. Shinola believes in the quality of American made products and offers its support to […]

Roger Dubuis Shares Insights from a Lifetime of Watchmaking (Video)

Roger Dubuis Shares Insights from Feb 14, 2014

Roger Dubuis Shares Insights from a Lifetime of Watchmaking (Video)

In many ways, the Hommage collection, centrepiece range this year for Roger Dubuis, was all about celebrating the roots of the company. Suitably decorated, the Roger Dubuis stand at SIHH featured life-size watchmakers, each holding a bell jar containing a watch from the Hommage Collection. These represented watchmakers from the past who, in large and […]

The Essence of Precision: Seiko’s Grand Seiko GMT Anniversary Edition

Grand Seiko GMT Anniversary Edition Two Feb 12, 2014

The Essence of Precision: Seiko’s Grand Seiko GMT Anniversary Edition

Two years ago, in 2012, Seiko introduced a Tenth Anniversary model of their Grand Seiko GMT watch –one with a strap, and one with a bracelet. The Grand Seiko watches are very well known among enthusiasts –so much so that if you’re reading this story at all you probably know about them already –but the […]

Cartier SIHH 2014 - Elegant Dimensions

Cartier SIHH 2014 – Elegant Feb 12, 2014

Cartier SIHH 2014 - Elegant Dimensions

During the last few years, the larger watch trend was dominating the Cartier watch collection quite a bit. We have seen watches like the first piece in the Fine Watch Making Collection, the hefty 46mm Ballon Bleu Flying Tourbillon, the really cool extra flat 46 mm Ballon bleu X-tra flat and of course the many […]

Rock Steady: The Zenith Christophe Colomb “Hurricane”

Zenith Christophe Colomb “Hurricane” One Feb 12, 2014

Rock Steady: The Zenith Christophe Colomb “Hurricane”

One of the most unusual and interesting pieces of horological exotica I can remember ever seeing had a somewhat rocky start in life: the watch (or watches, as there are now several incarnations) made by Zenith and known as the Christophe Colomb. Zenith was going through a period of experimentation, under its former CEO Thierry […]

Hands On With Ultra-Slim History: An Introduction to a New Series on Revo-Online

Hands On With Ultra-Slim History: An Introduction to a New Series on Revo-Online

Name a watch brand that doesn’t have a tourbillon in its collection? They’re still out there, but their number seems to decrease every year. Even though many brands don’t make their tourbillons in-house, it does illustrate how technically complicated movements have become more and more a part of the general landscape in the watch world, […]

The Dual Balance Wheel System of the MB&F; Legacy Machine No.2 Explained. (Video)

MB&F; Feb 6, 2014

The Dual Balance Wheel System of the MB&F; Legacy Machine No.2 Explained. (Video)

We covered the MB&F; Legacy Machine No.2 when it first came out last year in an exclusive first look by our very own Editor in Chief of REVO Asia, Suzanne Wong. (See the article here.) This time, in an exclusive video, we revisit this amazing watch that was shot recently while we were in Geneva […]

SIHH 2014: A Lange & Söhne Introduces The Richard Lange Perpetual Calendar “Terraluna”

A. Lange & Sohne Jan 20, 2014

SIHH 2014: A Lange & Söhne Introduces The Richard Lange Perpetual Calendar “Terraluna”

The first wave of introductions from the 2014 SIHH are out and from one of our favorite houses of haute horlogerie –A. Lange & Söhne –comes the Richard Lange Perpetual Calendar “Terraluna.” By the numbers, here’s what we’ve got: a perpetual calendar regulator-dial watch, with instantaneous jumping month, day,leap year, and big date indications; there’s […]

Whirlwind From Glashütte: Moritz Grossmann Introduces The Benu Tourbillon

Moritz Grossmann Introduces Jan 5, 2014

Whirlwind From Glashütte: Moritz Grossmann Introduces The Benu Tourbillon

The first watch made by the Glashütte-based firm of Moritz Grossmann that I saw in person was the Benu wristwatch, which the company debuted –in one of the most low-key launches I can remember –in 2010. The Benu was a watch very much to my personal tastes: discreet, very precisely made, with a sober beauty […]

Girard-Perregaux Winner Of The 13th. Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève

Girard-Perregaux Winner Nov 17, 2013

Girard-Perregaux Winner Of The 13th. Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève

Last Friday, the 15th of November, the jury of the 13th. Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) unveiled its prize list. Quite a few independent watchmakers like Kari Voutilainen, Romain Gauthier and Benoît Mintiens, de Ressence were among the winners. Fifteen prizes honoured the year’s finest watch creations, including the supreme distinction, the “Aiguille d’Or”. […]

Piaget Polo Chronograph; A Contemporary Classic

Piaget Polo Chronograph Nov 7, 2013

Piaget Polo Chronograph; A Contemporary Classic

Sometimes a watch manufacturer releases a model that seems to catch the spirit of the market so well, that it transcends to the status of an icon. Such a thing happened for Piaget in 1979, when they first introduced the Piaget Polo. This all gold watch with integrated bracelet, captured, as no other watch, the luxurious and […]

The Montblanc Exotourbillon Rattrapante: Live Pics, First Impressions

Montblanc Exotourbillon Rattrapante Live Pics Oct 25, 2013

The Montblanc Exotourbillon Rattrapante: Live Pics, First Impressions

The Exotourbillon series of watches are the most refined to come out of the Institut Minerva de Recherche en Haute Horlogerie –Montblanc’s high end, high complications atelier located in the village of Villeret. The Exotourbillon gets its name from the construction of the 18,000 vph tourbillon that’s the centerpiece of the watch –it has no […]

Ulysse Nardin Gengis Khan

Ulysse Nardin Gengis Khan DEPLOYANT - Oct 24, 2013

Ulysse Nardin Gengis Khan

Quick shot Friday focusses on the ultra high end Ulysse Nardin Gengis Khan Jacquetmart Minute Repeater Tourbillon with diamonds. I had the opportunity to see this piece at L’Atelier by The Hour Glass recently. A cool S$1.17 million on the wrist. Nicely finished…the Jacquetmart automata moves in sync with each strike. The watch strikes theRead More

Two Horological Legends Meet - Angelo Bonati and Alan Bloore

Panerai Oct 5, 2013

Two Horological Legends Meet - Angelo Bonati and Alan Bloore

On October 4th, 2013 two legends of the watch world met for the first time face to face after a decade and a half long relationship on the internet. Angelo Bonati, the CEO and guiding father of Panerai and Alan Bloore, also known by his internet handle Hammer, one of the world’s greatest authorities on […]