Hublot brand ambassador and all-around nice guy Usain Bolt just got his first limited edition watch. Usain Bolt is the fastest recorded runner and is often affectionately referred to as the fastest man in the world. Actually he is not from Africa but rather Jamaica. A little while ago (before this watch was released) I got a chance to interview him. I actu [...]
In a reinterpretation of their famous diving line, we see the?Blancpain?Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe in gray plasma ceramic for Baselworld 2016.?Blancpain has created various iterations of this iconic watch in the past, and this vintage-inspired piece is another hit youll likely admire.The ceramic dial is a gorgeous, [...]
Normally the introduction of yet another new Tourbillon would not be cause for announcement by me. Sure I have great appreciation for the complication, but in my opinion they are grossly over-priced and over lauded. On the other hand, when a tourbillon complication is tastefully incorporated in to a beautiful watch, it is worth noting. New f [...]
Leaving Baselworld each year is bitter sweet because I tend to have such a good time. I dont get to see even a third of what I would like to check out, and it is great to be among my friends and close colleagues for over a week. It is tiring however, and during final days you end up forgetting you are there for watches. I love it though, and am proud to be part o [...]
Easily my favorite new Panerai of SIHH 2010 is an unexpected model. The brand that made it a point to hide the tourbillon complication on their first tourbillon watch has now made an about face. This is the first skeletonized Panerai watch that I know of, and does not let down. It is actually the same movement from their normal tourbillon watch but skeletonized. Thi [...]
As I write this review I am actually freshly back from a visit of the Jaeger-LeCoultre manufacture in Le Sentier, Switzerland. In the watch industry the Jaeger-LeCoultre manufacture is considered a special place because it is a serious factory where both cases and movements are made which is a rare combo. I got to see a lot of Rev [...]
At the IWC watches booth at SIHH 2016, the theme will be all about pilot watches with two of the flagship limited edition models being the new IWC Big Pilots Heritage 55 and the related IWC Big Pilots Heritage 48. Each of these watches is directly inspired by the 55mm-wide IWC Big Pilots Watch (52-calibre T.S.C.) the company produced in 1940 for mil [...]
While it does not surprise me much, I cant say that I would have guessed Rado?would bring out a watch with the aesthetic of Tron. In a way I get it. Rado had a nice time in the 1980s when it started to popularize ceramic cased watches, and Tron came out in the 1980s. Both were futuristic in their own avant garde manner. The Rado R-One (R-1) isnt per se a Tron watch as there is no off [...]
Welcome back to an original interview series, 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 Peter Roberts, who is, well, is hard to pin down in a single sentence, in terms of his relation to the watch industry. Hes been in it [...]
Swiss independent brand Oris has been on a roll lately with bronze watches, a niche that it has found success in. Over the last several years, the watch industry has embraced bronze as a material for watch cases, and in some instances like these Oris watches, as a bracelet material as well. Today, Oris introduces a new collection of its Big Crown Pointer D [...]
You can tell by the title that this watch has a lot going for it. The?Montblanc Heritage Spirit Perpetual Calendar Skeleton Sapphire Dial watch is an aesthetic?tour de force, but is it all that it appears to be at first glance? It has the name, the look, the complication-clout, but does it tickle the pur [...]
Sometimes you just really want a big watch and, apparently, other times you want a huge one. Have no doubt that this 55mm-wide IWC Big Pilots Heritage Watch 55 timepiece is barely wearable in most instances. I mean, yes, you can rather easily (and surprisingly comfortably) attach the titanium case to your wrist on the plush leather strap but this is a pure novelty watch t [...]
The experimental designs of the 1960s and 1970s seem to offer a deep well of inspiration for watch companies, and apparently the perfect mix of distinctive originality and nostalgia to win over 21st-century consumers. While some of those yesteryear watches might be too far-out to be brought back, even as modern reinterpretations, Swiss Rado has never shied away from [...]
Sponsored PostIn 2014, we wrote a hands-on sponsored post of the then new Glashutte Original Senator Chronometer Regulator released at Basel 2013. It was the first new Chronometer model to come out since the original debuted in 2009. At Baselworld this year, Glashutte Original came out with a new variant of the Glashutte Original Senator Chronometer, a white gold piec [...]
In September 2019, Paris-based Bell Ross debuted its most ambitious watch in years: the Bell Ross BR 05 ( hands-on here). The BR 05 (BR05) was ambitious because, for the first time, Bell Ross was producing a watch simply designed to look and feel good, as opposed to needing inspiration from a particular world of sport or activity (such as flying, racing, or div [...]
Launched at SIHH 2019, the Cartier Santos Skeleton ADLC Noctambule is among the very, very few genuinely new watches of the fair, which I reckon has at least a long shot at raising the pulse of watch-lovers. So many regurgitations, misses, and/or flat-out unattainably priced watches have been launched that the humbly sized, yet boldly styled Nigh [...]
746 components inside a 52 millimeter wide, perfectly round case in red gold: this is the Montblanc Metamorphosis II in one sentence. As the name and those whopping figures suggest, there is a lot more going on, however-especially since we are talking about not one, but two watches here-so let us give [...]
Behold the Graham Fortress Monopusher Chronograph, a quintessentially Graham watch thats nevertheless been toned down just a bit so as to improve its chances. For many of us, Graham has been characterized by its massive, trigger-like chronograph pushers, novel use of colors and materials, grand proportions, underapprecia [...]
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