Reading Time: 4 minutes Just a few months after launching its UR-210 “final edition” model, the independent watchmaker, URWERK, has put into orbit a newcomer in its UR-Satellite collection: the UR-220 “Falcon Project”. With its manually wound movement and control board on its back, the new UR-220 goes back to URWERK’s earlier technologies in aContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s good to know where light comes from; it’s better to know where it leads. In the boldly dynamic FLOW timepieces, HYT takes the craftsmanship of mechanical watchmaking into a new age of enlightenment. Mechanics replace electronics as the unexpected catalyst of illumination, with a proprietary new complication generating lightContinue Reading
Reading Time: < 1 minute Geneva, September 15, 2020. The Foundation of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) is publishing today on its gphg.org website the list of 84 watches nominated by its Academy.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Ocean Star Decompression Timer 1961 reproduces the irresistible vintage charm of the Ocean Star Skin Diver Watch, a popular 1960s Mido model that remains one of the brand’s most sought-after original timepieces to date. Dedicated to the underwater world, this watch also served as a precious diving tool thanksContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ulysse Nardin has good news for world travellers – Ulysse Nardin 42mm Dual Time. The Swiss Manufacture comes with a reworked version of the celebrated Dual Time, a watch for the voyager who spends as much time in the air as he does on the ground. For those constantly onContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes At the Watches & Wonders exhibition in Shanghai, IWC Schaffhausen presented the iconic Portugieser Chronograph on a stainless steel bracelet for the first time. Thanks to this new bracelet option, the elegant and sporty chronograph becomes even more versatile and apt for a whole new range of adventures. The high-qualityContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Piaget’s Possession collection is turning 30 this year! Thirty iconic years of joy, luck and happiness! Possession was first unveiled in 1990 with a yellow gold ring that featured a central turning band that could be swivelled and twirled on the finger in a ritual gesture that created a specialContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Its looks are chic, its temperament sporty. A symbol of escapism and exploration, the 41 mm Vacheron Constantin Overseas self-winding model, unveiled at the Watches & Wonders Shanghai 2020 exhibition, combines for the first time its sleek silhouette sculpted in pink gold with a blue Overseas dial.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes Pride, along with excess, are part of Roger Dubuis’ mindset, a duality that allows unfettered exploring of new territories and the ability to demonstrate the other side of its “personality”: dramatic singularity. Indeed, powered by an obsessive quest for pleasure, freedom, and hedonism, all these characteristics are inherent to itsContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes A contemporary take on tradition: The Swiss Haute Horlogerie manufacturer evolves the Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet collection with a new Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon Chronograph. For the first time ever, Audemars Piguet dares to combine the classicism and prestige of the flying tourbillon with the modernity of the flyback chronographContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes TOURBOGRAPH PERPETUAL HONEYGOLD “Homage to F. A. Lange” – Like no other watch, this special model shows how A. Lange & Söhne has evolved the tradition of precision watchmaking and repeatedly infused it with fresh momentum. Five classic complications are combined in a unique masterpiece of technology called TOURBOGRAPH PERPETUALContinue Reading