Reading Time: 7 minutesI love the independent scene since it manages to present both wildly experimental and genuinely wearable watches. Vanguart has managed exactly this trick with the Orb Pink Ceramic Titanium and Orb Blue Ceramic Rose Gold, two references that take the brand’s already provocative flying tourbillon and dress it in pastelContinue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutesYet another watch that I would like to own, the Bell & Ross BR-03 GMT Green Lum landed on my desk for a review. So how do you test a GMT if not by travelling and how do you test a Lum watch if not by going into dark places?Continue Reading
Reading Time: 9 minutesRoger Dubuis Excalibur Biretrograde Calendar RDDBEX1179 was launched at Watches and Wonder 2025 as a bridge between the brand’s early Genevan style refinement and its current modern Hyper Horology. It features a characterful bi‑retrograde day and date, specific to Mr. Dubuis and mother-of-pearl in a compact pink gold Excalibur caseContinue Reading
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt Watches and Wonders 2026, Ulysse Nardin once again used its most disruptive watch to make a point: the FREAK still matters. And not only that it still matters, it kept the same disruptive soul. It still has the power to stop you in your tracks, and it still asksContinue Reading
Reading Time: 7 minutesBell & Ross was kind to lend me the BR‑X3 Patrouille de France, for an extended time, to do a review. I could not refuse the offer for two reasons: I like Bell & Ross and I like Patrouille de France. It is not their first collaboration, but oh boy,Continue Reading
Reading Time: 8 minutesJust before Watches and Wonders 2026, in the familiar background of the Beau Rivage Hotel in Geneva, Diana and I met the new DOXA SUB 200 T.GRAPH II, the reimagined brand’s historic dive chronograph. A first glimpse reveals the familiar cushion case and bright tool-watch aesthetic that makes DOXA so easilyContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere is a particular kind of madness that only watch people understand. It starts innocently: a glance at a dial or caseback, a rabbit hole on a forum at midnight, the quiet obsession with the way a seconds hand sweeps, escapement ticks and complications reveal themselves. For me, it startedContinue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutesBovet did not approach the idea of a GMT as a simple functional add-on and the Récital 32 arrives as a statement about what travel time means for the Maison, after more than two centuries of making timekeeping objects for people who cross borders and oceans. For years, the DimierContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesA short Q&A session with Christian Selmoni, the Style & Heritage Director of Vacheron Constantin, offers a rare glimpse into 270 years of uninterrupted horological history and the new Traditionnelle Twin Beat. In this discussion, Selmoni highlights how the maison bridges its profound archival past with contemporary artistic liberty andContinue Reading
Reading Time: 11 minutesGuido Benedini is one of the most interesting voices in contemporary independent watchmaking, because he does not speak about watches as objects alone, but as tools with a purpose. As CEO of Watch Angels, he has helped shape a platform that treats research, design and community input as part ofContinue Reading
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 featuringContinue Reading