Reading Time: 3 minutes During SIHH 2019, Ulysse Nardin launched a “simpler” version of the Freak. Received with enthusiasm but also with disappointment, the Ulysse Nardin Freak X is a much affordable version compared with the previous model, the Freak Out. A year after the launch, I intend to refresh your memory of thisContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes “Look ma’, no hands…” – There are only a few brands that disrupt the classic horological canons of displaying the time. Urwerk is one of them. No wonder that the brand’s pieces get to be featured as wrist companion for Marvel heroes – URWERK with the Avengers in the end game.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Vacheron Constantin launched last year at SIHH 2019 two new pieces in the FIFTYSIX® Collection. The FIFTYSIX® Self Winding and the FIFTYSIX® Complete Calendar received the new petrol blue dials. Vacheron Constantin FIFTYSIX® Complete Calendar is a dial colour variation of the past models remaining unchanged on the technical side.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutes A. Lange & Söhne Datograph Perpetual Tourbillon Ref. 740.056 was launched last year at SIHH 2019. Part of the Saxonia Collection, the watch is the second version of Datograph Perpetual Tourbillon. The first version, Ref. 740.036 in platinum was launched in 2016 and it was the most complicated Datograph toContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Hémisphères Rétrograde Slate was launched at SIHH 2019. It is the third version of the 2017’s GPHG winner. So a year ago, plus or minus a few days, I had the pleasure to have it in my hands. This multi complications timepiece stand out in elegance andContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes Roger Dubuis Excalibur Huracán Performante is a high tech timepiece created in partnership with Lamborghini Squadra Corse. The result is a watch recalling the Lamborghini Huracán supercar: a calibre designed to resemble the car’s V10 engine, a rotor weight depicting the alloy rims, Alcantara leather from the car interior andContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes During the SIHH 2019 days, the independent Louis Moinet launched two “fairytales” pieces (pun intended) celebrating 150 years of Jules’ Verne Around the Moon. Louis Moinet Moon is available in steel or in 18k gold. Besides the obvious appearance depicting the Moon’s surface, the Louis Moinet Moon watch contains aContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes Audemars Piguet launched this year at SIHH a new line of watches, the Code 11.59. I don’t remember, in the recent years, to see so much controversy when it comes to a new release like it was for this collection. The hate that the collection received at the beginning ofContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes Revealed at the SIHH 2019, the Récital 26 Brainstorm® Chapter One was developed to specifically showcase BOVET’s Engineering Brilliance “writing slope” case, which was designed by Mr. Raffy in 2016. The premier of this patented case in sapphire enables the architecture of this exclusive movement to follow the angle ofContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes My encounter with the IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Constant-Force Tourbillon Edition “Le Petit Prince” Ref. IW590302 happened during the days of SIHH 2019. I knew about this watch from the pre-SIHH press release but having it in hands changed my perception of it. With the occasion of GPHG Nomination ofContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes De Bethune launched this January an interesting piece – the DB28GS Grand Bleu. The name maybe is not suggestive enough but this watch is the first piece with diving characteristics: higher water resistance, rotating bezel, illuminated dial and bezel. Instead of using the now-classic SuperLuminova, De Bethune uses micro-led technologyContinue Reading