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Due To The Growing Importance of the Asian Market, Fondation De La Haute Horlogerie will Revive the Large Scale Watches & Wonders Exhibition, This Time in Hong Kong!

Due To The Growing Importance of the Asian Market, Fondation De La Haute Horlogerie will Revive the Large Scale Watches & Wonders Exhibition, This Time in Hong Kong!

Long overdue and a natural step to respond to the growing importance of the Asian market in the luxury watch industry, Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie will bring the most prestigious international watch exhibition outside Switzerland to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center this September. The Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie is the organiser behind the massive […]

Cartier Presents Its 2013 Collection At The SIHH

Cartier Presents Jan 21, 2013

Cartier Presents Its 2013 Collection At The SIHH

For 2013 Cartier goes back in history and releases one of their most sexy technical themes, the Mystery movements. A technique where the brand was famous for, in the twenties. ROTONDE de CARTIER MYSTERIEUSE For me the most exiting watch of the new collection. Case size 42mm, pink- or white gold and fitted with the […]

The 2013 Jaeger-LeCoultre Rendez-Vous Celestial – A Deserving Complication for the Sophisticated Women.

Jaeger-LeCoultre Rendez-Vous Celestial – Jan 21, 2013

The 2013 Jaeger-LeCoultre Rendez-Vous Celestial – A Deserving Complication for the Sophisticated Women.

Among all the technical complications, an astronomical star chart wristwatch must be one of the most appreciated complications by the truly sophisticated watch collectors. At the SIHH 2013 exhibition, Jaeger-LeCoultre pleasantly surprised us with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Rendez-Vous Celestial. With the beautiful sky chart as seen from the Northern Hemisphere rotating at 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds […]

Is the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Quatuor complex for complexity’s sake?

Roger Dubuis Excalibur Quatuor complex Jan 21, 2013

Is the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Quatuor complex for complexity’s sake?

The design of the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Quatuor is the most interesting thing about it. This statement is not as disparaging as it sounds. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. What I’m saying is - despite the intriguing premise of a watch equipped with four sprung balances of identical frequency linked by differentials to form what […]

Making A Home Out Of A House: A History Of Cartier Clocks

Cartier Clocks First post Jan 17, 2013

Making A Home Out Of A House: A History Of Cartier Clocks

First post in the new year and let’s not start as usually, with an article about watches. Believe me there will be loads of ‘watch’ news in two weeks from now and there after. Last year we did a large article about Cartier Alarm clocks, the small ones from the eighties with mechanical movements and […]

Sea-Dweller 126600: Rolex's Most Controversial Watch

Watchfinder & Co. May 12, 2017

Sea-Dweller 126600: Rolex's Most Controversial Watch

Promiscuous Wrist: Girard-Perregaux 1966 Minute Repeater, Annual Calendar & Equation Of Time

Girard-Perregaux 1966 Minute Repeater Annual Jan 16, 2013

Promiscuous Wrist: Girard-Perregaux 1966 Minute Repeater, Annual Calendar & Equation Of Time

Despite the fact that the Promiscuous Wrist, by definition, gets around a lot, it (or I, I should say) has never had the chance to test-drive a watch with an equation-of-time complication. For that matter, we’ve never had a run around the block with an annual calendar either. So, when the chance came to kill […]

DeBethune DB27

DeBethune DB27

Being a seasoned watch collector means that nothing much takes my breath away these days…but today’s post is one such watch…so unusual, but without being overtly so. So beautiful, but yet, retains some of the charm of being slightly quirky. So refined and well finished, yet a bit garage-home made feel. Bravo David Zanetta andRead More

The Evolution of the Minute Repeater

Breguet developed Dec 25, 2012

The Evolution of the Minute Repeater

Despite the hyperbole that sometimes accompanies news from the watch world, the truth is this: the hairspring and balance got together in 1660, Mudge made his first lever-escapement watch in 1755, and, with respect to repeaters, Barlow and Quare (both Englishmen) applied for patents for repeating watches in the late 17th century. Breguet developed the […]

Girard Perregaux chronograph

Girard-Perregaux Dec 13, 2012

Girard Perregaux chronograph

Girard Perregaux makes beautiful timepieces…always have. Somehow, they manage to get the balance right to my eyes. Beautiful proportions. Today’s feature is on a chronograph – the GP Vintage Chronograph, owned by a good friend, who wanted to dress down the watch a bit, by using a NATO style strap on an otherwise dressy watch…makingRead More

Sneak Preview: Cartier watches SIHH 2013

Ulysse Nardin Dec 13, 2012

Sneak Preview: Cartier watches SIHH 2013

Carole Forestier-Kasapi, director of fine watchmaking at Cartier has been an industry trailblazer since her tenure at Ulysse Nardin. Having overseen the high profile ID concept watch project, Forestier-Kasapi has addressed some of haute horology’s nagging issues namely- lubrication and energy loss in geared movements. Since production of the exemplary Cartier Astrotourbillon and the Rotonde […]

Most UNDERVALUED Vintage Watches, MISTAKES In The Watch Industry, & INSPIRATION | #ASKTNH 101

Theo & Harris May 12, 2017

Most UNDERVALUED Vintage Watches, MISTAKES In The Watch Industry, & INSPIRATION | #ASKTNH 101

New Announcement: Lange 1 Lumen

New Announcement: Lange 1 Lumen

Exclusive live photographs of the just announced, literally 6 hours ago…of the new Lange 1 Lumen. Literally just returned from the launch event. Very tired, and have a full day schedule shooting the watch in more ideal conditions tomorrow…so look out for those photographs. In the meantime, on site photographs…I think possibly the first onRead More

The MB&F; HM5: hands on photographs and impressions

MB&F; Dec 4, 2012

The MB&F; HM5: hands on photographs and impressions

The long awaited HM5 by MB&F; is now revealed! These are one of the first photographs and commentary to reach the world…Max presented this watch to Singapore collectors on Dec 4, about 8pm, while the same is being presented across the world in the form of a press release about the same time. I managedRead More

Urwerk UR210: black or white?

Urwerk UR210 black or white? Nov 29, 2012

Urwerk UR210: black or white?

Presenting the latest Urwerk…the UR210. Last week, I wrote about how cool Urwerk watches were, and featured the progression of cool from the early years to the UR210. Today’s post will provide some additional high resolution photographs of the UR201. I find the visual impact of the watch to be quite amazing. It looks likeRead More

Jaeger-LeCoultre Place Vendome boutique and a horological first

Jaeger-LeCoultre Place Vendome boutique Nov 23, 2012

Jaeger-LeCoultre Place Vendome boutique and a horological first

Just 3 days ago, on the eve of the 190th anniversary, Jaeger-LeCoultre invited watch lovers worldwide to the largest Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique in the world. The No. 7 Place Vendome flagship was not only ground zero for the anniversary festivities but fitting site for the unveiling of a horological first- the new Duometre Unique Travel Time […]

Lange Arkade

Lange Arkade

A quick place marker for next week’s post. Possibly the most beautifully made mechanical ladies watch in production…the Lange Arkade. This specimen is in yellow gold case, champagne dial. Personal timepiece of my wife’s. Photographed simply in a restaurant, while we were having lunch, perched on a plate. One of the original watches introduced byRead More

5 Things I Love & Hate About The 94613 Tudor Date-Day - Unboxing A Seiko Pogue 6139 Watch + Bloopers

The Urban Gentry May 12, 2017

5 Things I Love & Hate About The 94613 Tudor Date-Day - Unboxing A Seiko Pogue 6139 Watch + Bloopers

Credor Eichi: in the flesh…

Credor Nov 9, 2012

Credor Eichi: in the flesh…

I have written and photographed the amazing Credor Eichi before. See this post for the details. And I still hold this wonderful watch with the highest regard, this is the first I have encountered this piece on the wrist of an owner. Beautiful, in a zen like way. Quality of this photograph leaves much toRead More

Jaeger LeCoultre Platinum 2

Jaeger-LeCoultre Oct 30, 2012

Jaeger LeCoultre Platinum 2

Back to regular programming…today’s post is on my personal watch…the Jaeger LeCoultre Platinum 2. A stealthy watch, if there ever was one. To the unintiated, this watch looks like a regular Reverso, with a beautiful grey dial, and power reserve. To the knowledgable, this is a sample of 500 piece limited edition, the movement isRead More

Jacquet Droz novelty: Bird minute repeater

Jacquet Droz novelty: Bird minute repeater

Special post today on a special watch. Exclusive pictures, now only available online from my friends at Watchonista. Unlike regular photographs featured in this blog, these series of photographs are done by Watchonista. Note copyright Watchonista. Also to ensure no confusion, they are 1000 pixels across, as compared to my original photographs which are alwaysRead More

Up for Charity: Azimuth Round-1 Back In Time Jeremy Monteiro Edition

Up for Charity: Azimuth Round-1 Back In Time Jeremy Monteiro Edition

Azimuth recently collaborated with notable Singapore Jazz maestro Jeremy Monteiro to produce a unique limited edition Azimuth Round-1 Back In Time J.M. “35” timepiece for auction; the proceeds from the sale go towards Very Special Arts Singapore, a charity whose goals include giving those with disabilities access to the arts for social and rehabilitative reasons. […]

AP Royal Oak: Journey from Avant-Garde to Iconic Timepiece

AP Royal Oak: Journey from Avant-Garde to Iconic Timepiece

The beginning of a journey takes but one step. In an age of square and round watches, the industry gripped in the throes of the quartz crisis was trying to outcompete itself on a battlefield of watch straps and materials. Standing above the fray and towards even more risk was a company near the brink, […]

My Watch Biography - From Rolex To Casio & More - My Biggest Regret & Most Important Lesson Learned

The Urban Gentry May 12, 2017

My Watch Biography - From Rolex To Casio & More - My Biggest Regret & Most Important Lesson Learned

AP Limited Editions

AP Limited Editions

AP Limited Editions is a very unique company offering handmade pens in the Japanese lacquer method. A couple of years ago, they decided to offer a special watch, skeletonized. Based on the Unitas movement, the skeleton works is rather unexpectedly good, especially so for a company specializing in pens and not watches. I did theseRead More

Operation Skyfall: Omega in Her Majesty’s Service

Omega Oct 2, 2012

Operation Skyfall: Omega in Her Majesty’s Service

With November 9th (Skyfall’s release date) around the corner and gentlemen worldwide engaging in ardent debates (we imagine) over Her Royal Majesty’s choice of timepiece for the British Navy and Special Air Services, we have been hard at work to uncover definitive information on the diver’s watch wars. The two traditional camps have always been […]

A. Lange & Sohne: Tourbograph Pour le Merite

A. Lange & Sohne Tourbograph Pour le Merite Oct 2, 2012

A. Lange & Sohne: Tourbograph Pour le Merite

The Lange Tourbograph is one of my favourite watches of all time…the complication is exquisite…a fusee chain tourbillon with split seconds chronograph. Created initially to be launched in 1994 together with the other iconic timepieces to showcase the new A. Lange & Sohne, this watch was so complicated, that it was decided to delay theRead More

Ruling The Skies: IWC and Top Gun

IWC Sep 28, 2012

Ruling The Skies: IWC and Top Gun

The Advanced Fighter Weapons School In the 1970s, the Swiss mechanical watch industry was almost wiped out by an electronic threat called quartz technology, which instantly democratized accuracy in the form of cheap, Japanese-made watches. But ultimately, in the clash between soulless battery-operated machines and those handcrafted by human artisans, the mechanical watch won out, […]

Ghost in the machine: Richard Mille RM 056

Richard Mille RM 056 Sep 27, 2012

Ghost in the machine: Richard Mille RM 056

With all that he’s achieved on the movement front: the world’s lightest mechanical watch movements (tourbillons, no less, created with I-beam aluminum-lithium bridges), the first carbon-nanofiber and titanium baseplates, the first movement designed after the steel trellis frame of a Ducati motorcycle, the first movement with an orthorhombic-titanium-aluminide baseplate, inspired by the honeycomb inner structure […]

Watch Buyer's Guide Part 2 - Buying Your First Wristwatch - My Top 5 Essentials You Should Know

The Urban Gentry May 12, 2017

Watch Buyer's Guide Part 2 - Buying Your First Wristwatch - My Top 5 Essentials You Should Know