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Note Perfect: Porsche 911 by Singer

Leap Year

2016 saw IWC making inventive breakthroughs in a horological as well as business sense. In 2017, the brand will continue its progress by launching three elegant Da Vinci timepieces that are eminently suited for the feminine wrist.

Charlie Stockwell – Two-Wheeled Da Vinci

Tudor Pelagos LHD: God Is In The Details

Tudor launches the ‘destro’ version of the Pelagos, a high-performance dive watch that offers supreme value because it contains all the technical innovations that you’ll ever need in your undersea explorations.

Design Exchange

In the world of watch design, very little can be described as truly original, but according to Revolution’s Editor-at-Large Ken Kessler there is a thin line between what can be considered an homage and what is basically just a rip-off.

A Bigger Bang

Hublot and Lapo Elkann team up to create the Big Bang Unico Italia Independent Camo, a searingly evocative and daring collection of watches and eyewear.

Officine Panerai and the Design Miami/ Visionary Award

Montblanc’s Bronze Age

Montblanc digs deep into its archives to bring bronze back to life in its new 1858 collection pieces.

Pre-SIHH 2017: Girard-Perregaux

Girard-Perregaux unveil the 1966 WW.TC and the Laureato 34 ahead of their return to SIHH in 2017.

VIDEO: Bulgari x Revolution

Watch this space for a very special unveiling, in collaboration with Bulgari.

Hand-Krafted

Watch enthusiast and sartorial powerhouse Alexander Kraft joins forces with A Lange & Söhne to create a new range of exclusive watchstraps.

Beyond Basics - The Heritage Black Bay

We take you deep into the heart of Tudor and their in-house movements.

The Butterfly Effect

Van Cleef & Arpels presents its latest Poetic Complication - the Lady Arpels Papillon Automate with an unprecedented ‘random automaton’ that reminds us that the smallest actions can have the greatest impact.

God Speed John Glenn

Revolution remembers the life and time of Colonel John Herschel Glenn Jr., the man who they said had, “the right stuff”.

Rhapsody in Blue

Piaget kick-starts the Altiplano’s 60th anniversary celebrations with two limited-edition timepieces outfitted in spectacular deep blue.

10 (Smoking) Hot Victoria’s Secret Models (And Their Watches)

With the Victoria’s Secret show 2016 having recently concluded, Justin Hast engages in a little investigative journalism to find out what his favorite femme fatales wear for their choice of timepiece.

Tudor… Period! - The Heritage Black Bay Dark

Tudor’s Heritage Black Bay provides us with another watch to deplete our savings and exercise our credit cards - the Heritage Black Bay Dark adds total stealth to a modern classic.

Two-tone Revival

Never a brand to simply follow the pack, Montblanc has picked up on one of the hottest trends in contemporary watchmaking and added a clever twist to create the steel and bronze 1958 Automatic Dual Time.

Caution! 5218-207/A Slytech at Sotheby’s

Sotheby’s in New York is about to auction a “rare” Pre Vendôme 5215-207/A with blue dial today, which after having undergone some serious scrutiny proves to be questionable - to say the least.

A New Moon In Dresden

A. Lange & Söhne add a new moon to their most successful family of watches with the new for 2017, Lange 1 Moonphase.

A Star Reborn - IWC Announces Its Collection Focus for 2017

With a long-overdue focus on the Da Vinci family in 2017, IWC kicks off the new collection with a reworking of the legendary Perpetual Calendar Chronograph.

Bleu et Bleu

Watching The Mad Men

According to Don Draper and his Madison Avenue colleagues: “Advertising is based on one thing: happiness.” So, Revolution asks, how have watch brands delivered this emotion and translated it into sales throughout the years.

Madonna Raises Malawi in Miami

Bulgari shone as the stars (and Revolution) came out to support the Queen of Pop in her quest to build a Paediatric Surgery and Intensive Care Hospital in one of Africa’s poorest countries.

When Bronze Wins Gold

How the Tudor Heritage Black Bay Bronze universally won hearts and minds in the blink of an eye.

One Fixed Gear Bike, One IWC Big Pilot And 300km of The Tour De France

A Story of Transcendence

How an affordably priced brand of Hans Wilsdorf’s, became one of the greatest horological success stories of the century.

Diamond Cartier Watch on Walmart.com?!

The grand maison’s decisive response when an $18,000 Cartier diamond watch turned up where it was never supposed to be.

The SEALAB, Comex and the Helium Release Valve

Why did man pursue the deep seas? Why resort to the SEALAB? And why did Rolex create the helium release valve. Eminent Rolex scholar, James Dowling answers all.

Bronzed Beauty

In collaboration with the beautiful Miss Georgia Salamat and photographer, Haris Nukem - Revolution reminisces summer days and summer watches in 2016’s metal of choice.