Reading Time: 3 minutesAngelus is not a brand that courts casual attention. It builds instruments for people who understand that a complication earns its place on the dial only when it actually does something useful, something measurable, something real. Following the Chronographe Médical of 2023, the Instrument de Vitesse of 2024, and theContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesChopard Mille Miglia GTS Power Control Grigio-Blu 2026 Racing Edition Ref. 168566-3022 distils nearly four decades of partnership with one of the world’s most storied endurance races into a focused, purposeful object. Since 1988, Chopard has served as the Mille Miglia’s World Sponsor and Official Timekeeper, and Co-President Karl-Friedrich ScheufeleContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe new Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Tech, reference 5019A, is a particular kind of watch that does not ask for your admiration. It asks for your trust and understanding it properly demands that you first understand the world it was built for. I have always admired Blancpain Ocean Commitment initiative, andContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are watches that tell time, and then there are watches that make a declaration. The TAG Heuer Monaco Speed 12, unveiled at the Formula 1 Louis Vuitton Grand Prix de Monaco 2026 and limited to just 50 individually numbered pieces, belongs unambiguously in the second category. TAG Heuer andContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesJason Momoa – actor, filmmaker and craftsman – has commissioned a one-off Bentley Blower Jnr as a Hedley Studios client and is due to take delivery this summer. Momoa visited the Bicester atelier to meet the team, experience the Bentley Blower Jnr and other Hedley Studios creations, and begin shapingContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Hermès Arceau Cavalier en Formes is a watch that tell a story, and a piece that seems to exist in an entirely different philosophical register. Since Henri d’Origny conceived the Arceau in 1978, Hermès has used that round case with its signature asymmetrical stirrup-shaped lugs as a canvas forContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesBlancpain’s Ladybird Tribute is a carefully composed act of remembrance. It reaches back to a watch linked with Marilyn Monroe, then rebuilds that emotion through a modern jewellery watch that still carries real horological intent.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are anniversaries that prompt a brand to look backward, and there are those that sharpen the focus forward. The Girard-Perregaux Laureato Fifty, launched on 4 June 2026, belongs firmly to the second category. Fifty years after a Jura-born, Italian-named, Florentine-inspired octagon changed the course of an entire Manufacture’s history,Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn 2 June 1941, Lou Gehrig passed away at thirty-seven years old, leaving behind a legacy so vast that Major League Baseball now marks 2 June as Lou Gehrig Day. 85 years later, Oris chooses this precise date to release a limited edition that sits firmly at the intersection ofContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesZenith G.F.J. Calibre 135 Double Signed is a collaborations born of genuine passion. The Double Signed Programme originated from the encounter between Zenith’s Chief Product Officer Romain Marietta and Naoya Hida in his Tokyo workshop. Their shared reverence for the golden age of chronometry sparked an immediate connection, and theContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen Wristcheck, the content-driven Hong Kong watch platform co-founded in 2020 by Austen Chu and Sean Wong, sat down with Piaget‘s manufacture in La Côte-aux-Fées to imagine a shared piece, the result was always going to be the Altiplano Ultimate Automatic. After all, Austen Chu has been a credible voiceContinue Reading