My First Grail Watch: Michele Sofisti Of Gucci Watches, Girard-Perregaux, And JEANRICHARD

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Welcome back to the original feature, My First Grail Watch. In this series, we ask prominent people in the watch industry about the first timepiece that they lusted after. Today, were speaking with Michele Sofisti, who has been in the watch industry since the mid-90s, and has be at the helm of a number of luxury watch brands which as of today in [...]

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IWC Pilot's Watch Worldtimer Review


IWC likes to focus each year on one of its watch families. While we now know that 2013 is the year of the Ingenieur, with various models already announced, last year was the year of the Pilot.? With that came various small changes and updates to its iconic Big Pilot, Mark XVII, Top Gun, and Spitfire series, as well as a new perpetual calendar Big Pilot with ceramic case, and a new Pilot Chr [...]

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Breitling Ambassador & Watch Collector Brad Pitt Makes The Pursuit Of Precision Cool


Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for BreitlingIf youve seen Brad Pitt on-screen (and Im not sure I know anyone who hasnt), you have a pretty good idea of what Brad Pitt is like in real life. At least that was my experience when I had a rare opportunity to interview the megastar actor in Los Angeles. Pitt also happens to be a known wristwat [...]

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IWC, The Plastiki, And A Limited Edition Adventure Ecology Ingenieur Watch


The wind speed was brutal. It was almost unfair. I was out in what felt like a gale for literally seconds before my expensive European umbrella was trashed and I was soaked. The wind warped it like aluminum foil in front of my eyes like it was a sick marionette puppet performance. In the past I had trusted its apparent durability to the elements with much confidence. In one f [...]

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Hands-On With The Double Chronograph A. Lange & Sohne Triple Split Watch


The people at A. Lange Sohne get their kicks by doing things that others in the world of horology havent yet. To some who arent familiar with such competition between mechanical watchmakers, this pursuit of technical novelty at any cost might seem anywhere from quaint to queer. Does the world need a roughly $150,000 chronograph timepiece because it contains two sets of [...]

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First Look: Cartier Prive Collection Renews The Tank Chinoise With Rectangular Dial & Skeleton Movement


Cartier unveils the Tank Chinoise as the sixth chapter in the Cartier Prive Collection, highlighting the iconography of Chinese architecture and interior design. The Tank Chinoise had not been re-envisioned since 2004 when it was redesigned during the CPCP (Collection Prive Cartier Paris) era. The new release unveils the 9627 MC skeleton movement spec [...]

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Breitling Revives The Legendary AVI Ref. 765 With Three New Limited-Edition Models


In the long history of pilot watches, there is perhaps no more visually iconic chronograph than the 1953 Breitling AVI Ref. 765 Co-Pilot. While its Navitimer stablemate may be more famous, the clean simple forms and external rotating steel bezel of the AVI ref. 765 became the de facto template for pilot chronographs for decades, influencing designs from the likes of Dodan [...]

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