Reading Time: < 1 minute Happy New Year 2019! First of all, best wishes for the new year. Hope for the best, expect for the worst! 2018 was a hard year but also fulfiling year. I know for sure that 2019 it will be a full year too. I will be on my own toContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes D. Dornblüth & Sohn is a name relatively unknown in the world of watches, although the small independent brand has more than twenty years of experience. Dieter Dornblüth and Son have interesting pieces, customisable with the client’s wishes. I would like to present you one of the most “simple” watchesContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes Schaffhausen, December 2018 – IWC Schaffhausen has been ranked as the best-performing company in the Swiss Watch and Jewellery sector in a WWF Switzerland report examining the environmental impact of 15 brands.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Created as part of Breguet’s time-honoured tradition, the Reine de Naples is adorned with mother-of-pearl in hues of pink and mauve, encircled by diamonds. The timepiece ticks to the rhythm of a self-winding calibre with moon phases.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes Upon its release in 1953, Fifty Fathoms, the first modern diver’s watch, immediately appealed to professional divers and soon thereafter to their civilian counterparts. It has since become the archetypal watch in this genre. As relevant as ever six decades on, its main original technical and aesthetic characteristics, revisited andContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes For the 20th Anniversary of the Chronomètre à Résonance, F.P.Journe proposes a version with a special dial that will be produced only during the year 2019. The hour dial at 3h maintains an analogue 12-hour indication while the dial at 9h features for this edition an analogue 24-hour indication. TheContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes In 2017, Parmigiani Fleurier unveiled the Toric Chronomètre, a contemporary reworking of the first watch designed by Michel Parmigiani. In November 2018, the brand revisited the aesthetics of this flagship model, introducing an eye-catching dial decorated to evoke the spiral pattern of a pine cone.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Edouard and Maurice Sandoz Foundation collection is a resource showcasing the genius of watchmaking’s “old masters”. Parmigiani Fleurier wanted to pay tribute to this unique collection of horological works of art by recreating some of these mechanical wonders in its own manufacture. The unique Parmigiani Toric Capitole Rose GoldContinue Reading
Reading Time: < 1 minute In a remote area, high in the Alps, French freediving champion Morgan Bourc’his gets out of his comfort zone, by exploring waters under the ice, in the extreme cold with almost no light. He is a specialist in unassisted and equipment-free diving, considered to be the purest and most demandingContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Stuttgart. Porsche Design honours the next generation of the iconic Porsche 911 with a limited edition timepiece: the 911 Chronograph Timeless Machine Limited Edition. Like the renowned sports car, the chronograph evokes emotion through its purist design, functionality and high level of performance. Since 1963, the 911 – synonymous withContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Master Ultra Thin charms any watch-enthusiast or devotee with its round shape and pure lines. Featuring an extremely thin case, this models highlights the arts of guillochage and enamelling, two of the Rare Handcrafts (“Métiers Rares®”) which have been kept alive for generations at the Manufacture in the ValléeContinue Reading