Reading Time: 3 minutesAlpina Watches extended the Startimer collection with new 40mm pieces. Between them, the white dial version caught my attention and I have decided to have a deeper look. The Alpina Startimer Pilot Automatic Reference AL-525S3S6 represents well its collection. The differences from the other pieces being purely cosmetic. Large imageContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesBeautiful and functional? It’s a difficult balance to strike. You have to combine emotion and reason, subjectivity and objectivity, luxury and functionality. It’s a fine line that Alpina has long managed to maintain. Its Startimer collection, devoted to aviation, is not only one of the most popular with pilots, butContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year marks the 50th Anniversary of the Lamborghini Urraco, unveiled at the Turin Motor Show in late October 1970. This model immediately stood out for having introduced technical solutions that were very innovative for the time, thanks to the contribution of engineer Paolo Stanzani, the technical father of theContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesH. Moser & Cie. launched in the first official day of the Geneva Watch Days 2020 a new watch in their Streamliner Collection. The H. Moser & Cie. Streamliner Centre Seconds Matrix Green fumé dial comes, as its name might “suggest” with a three hands, time only configuration and theContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesUnique and mystical. The famous Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic from the 1930s is considered amongst experts to be a masterpiece of automotive engineering. Only four vehicles were hand-built between 1936 and 1938. The fourth car built, Jean Bugatti’s private vehicle, disappeared without a trace around 1938. It is notContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesPiaget unveils two Altiplano Blue limited-edition timepieces in 38mm, showcasing its love for ultra-thinness and the magic of the colour blue.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor the very first time, Piaget presents an Altiplano Tourbillon in a 38mm size, in a Limited Edition, offering one of watchmaking’s finest complications in a smaller diameter. Piaget unveiled in 2017 its first Altiplano Tourbillon powered by a 670 movement in a 41mm case size. High complications for womenContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesFranck Muller Vanguard™ Lady Moonphase – Poetic complication, the moon phase, naturally found its place at 6 o’clock to harmoniously complete the Vanguard ™ Lady collection.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesParmigiani Fleurier is one of those brands close to my heart that I have always enjoyed meeting in the wild. The independent has a strong brand language that makes the watches stand out for those “knowing”. Otherwise, the watches are pleasant and subtle. These properties I mostly enjoy at theContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesLa Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland – 8 October 2020: Swiss luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer presents three new Monaco models, the TAG Heuer Monaco Chronograph 39 mm Calibre Heuer 02 Automatic, continuing the new chapter in the collection’s history that began in 2019 – a year in which the brand celebrated the iconicContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes55 years ago, Seiko introduced its, and Japan’s, first-ever diver’s watch. With an automatic movement and water resistance to 150m, it proved its reliability when it was used by members for Antarctic survey in the 1960s. In the years that followed, Seiko created many other diver’s watches that found favorContinue Reading