Reading Time: 5 minutes The Romain Gauthier Prestige HMS Stainless Steel is the first timepiece created by the independent brand in… steel – as the name suggested. This limited edition was officially launched today. I got the chance to a preview and now I come with my own impressions. Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes Because platinum holds a special place in the realm of prestige watchmaking, Vacheron Constantin created a collection dedicated to this precious metal in 2006, named the Collection Excellence Platine. Exclusively composed of exceptional models issued in limited editions, this collection now welcomes a new version of the famous Traditionnelle manual-winding.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes On the occasion of Miami Watches & Wonders, De Bethune presents a USA Exclusive: The iconic “DB28 Kind of Blue”, now available with an elegant Pink Gold case. Only 10 numbered timekeepers, reserved exclusively for American clients, will be produced.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the timeless models of the Ulysse Nardin collection, the Classico Jade, returns this year with a smaller diameter of 34 mm and a limited edition that puts love centre stage.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 16 minutes It was not easy to take a decision regarding the first watch to review after SIHH. If you had a look at my SIHH impressions Part1, Part2 and Part 3, you should already have an idea what I have seen. Therefore I decided to start completely random. Why not withContinue Reading
Reading Time: 8 minutes After some unfriendly driving condition (bad weather, bad traffic), see Part 1 and the stress of the first days of SIHH, see Part 2, it is the time to get the stories straight for the last two days of SIHH 2019. Plus bonus… Attention, long post. For images, just scrool down.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Louis Moinet Ultravox is an exclusive creation, designed to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Louis Moinet’s birth. The inventor of the chronograph also designed striking clocks which adorned the drawing rooms of the world’s greatest leaders: Napoleon Bonaparte, Tsar Alexander I, US presidents Thomas Jefferson and JamesContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Cosmic and dreamlike. Setting foot on the moon and losing one’s sense of time and space. The new Hermes Arceau L’heure de la lune watch offers a unique vision of Earth’s satellite with the simultaneous display of moon phases in both northern and southern hemispheres. Two mobile counters gravitate on a meteorite orContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes In its tenth collaboration with Switzerland’s premier clockmaker, L’Epée 1839, MB&F plunges into warm ocean waters where the beautiful and ancient jellyfish proliferate. Medusa is a dual-configuration clock, housed in hand-blown Murano glass, that can be ceiling mounted or stood upon a desk. In the form of one of theContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes With the new navy watch, the Laco watch manufacture combines function and design of two seafaring classics: its 1940s pocket watch and a model resembling the watches of the crew on board of the „U1“ submarine. Manual wind movement, dial and casing are essentially just as they were in the watches‘ predecessors. However, the modern wristwatchContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes For Valentine’s Day, Blancpain reinterprets its Villeret Women Quantième Phases de Lune watch, delicately blending the collection’s signature characteristics with the universal emblems of love. Stemming from a tradition initiated by the brand in 2001, this 19th limited series intended to celebrate lovers is issued in a 99-piece edition.Continue Reading