Watch I Love

Reading Time: 3 minutesRessence has quietly become one of watchmaking’s most consistent provocateurs. The Antwerp-based independent, founded by Benoît Mintiens in 2010, builds watches that look nothing like traditional wristwatches and yet tell the time with extraordinary conviction. Now, the TYPE 7 grows its palette with two new colourways: Black and Cactus. Both

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe DC1 Platinum Art of the Tourbillon is firmly a watch that recount a life’s obsession. David Candaux, the independent watchmaker from Solliat in the Vallée de Joux, launched his DC1 First Eight in steel back in 2017. Now, nine years on, he ventures into platinum for the first time,

Reading Time: 12 minutesThe URWERK UR-101 Diamond Sky is love at first sight, one of the most expressive and creatively refined pieces URWERK has ever realized. Diana shares this fascination in equal measure. The first time she placed the watch on her wrist, she asked me to write her a love story featuring

Reading Time: 4 minutesThere is a moment, when you hold a gemset Richard Mille close to the light, that the boundary between jewellery and engineering dissolves completely. Stones do not sit atop the case. They become the case. That shift in thinking represents something genuinely new in the history of gem-set watchmaking, and