Movado Museum Classic WatchMovado recently began quietly shipping this new Movado Museum Dial Classic watch collection to its retailers. The new watch model is a slight revision on the longstanding Movado Museum Dial watch collection that has been around for what feels like ages. In the early 2000s, the ap [...]
The Swatch Groups Mido has been aggressive as of late, releasing a slew of thoughtful and fairly affordable watches-watches like the Multifort Chronometer and the Commander Big Date. Thats good news for all of us because god knows we need more affordable watches to get more people excited about the hobby. Just in time for the holidays, Mido has just announced a new dive wa [...]
One of the surprise hits for me at Baselworld 2016 was the new Mido Ocean Star Captain V in titanium (reference M026.430.44.061.00). Mido is one of the less well-known Swatch Group brands, at least in the United States, but it has some cool watches such as the Commander and Multifort. I understand that Mido watches do particularly well in South America, actually Anyhow [...]
How much over retail do you think this Breguet Ref. 5157 watch will go fetch for charity? With a retail price of $16,200 the 18k gold Breguet watch is currently on eBay awaiting January 9th, 2011, when the auction will end. The proceeds are said to go to the New York Philharmonics School Partnership Program. When the money is eventually delivered, [...]
Black, as designers say, is timeless. Reinventing an existing sports watch with a black coating has become an easy way for brands to give a design a more modern, aggressive flair in the current watch market, but the black watch trend dates all the way back to 1972. Porsche Design was the first to create a black-coated design with its inaugural Chron [...]
In recent years, as fierce competition between high-end brands and luxury groups has further intensified, watch certifications have stepped up as a favored weapon of choice, functioning as yet another quality-differentiating factor, if you like.?The problem, though, is that these certifications [...]
The 158-year-old Montblanc Manufacture (that you probably recognize more easily when I call it by its former name,?Minerva) in Villeret, Switzerland, is where the brands halo products come from, and you can always look forward to their cutting-edge work. The Montblanc TimeWalker Pythagore Ultra-Light Concept watch released toda [...]
Sponsored Post written for by advertiser.Our last few Grand Seiko events at Topper featured Grand Seikos legendary Japanese craftsmen performing impressive demonstrations disassembling and reassembling their esteemed calibres. This Thursday, May 11, 2017, will be a different type of event. Our good friend, Seiko USAs Rusty Rowlands, will present prototy [...]
It is part of Cartiers strategy to suspend production of products like watches when they are still popular - only to reintroduce them some years later in a new form. Cartier has done this with a number of its iconic models, and it performs the admirable task of making something old look new again. The latest watch collection to get a fresh treatment by t [...]
Breitlings most iconic and famous model is the Navitimer. Ive reviewed the Navitimer 01, which included for the first time the in-house manufacture Calibre 01 movement.Continue reading
A?watch designers job is to create a relationship between the wearer and their watch. The new Roger Dubuis Excalibur Knights of the Round Table II watch does this is a clever way. By decorating the dial with a culturally significant diorama, the wearer is not only comfortable with an image they have seen many times before, but they are also s [...]
Vintage-inspired sports watches have grown to encompass a massive segment of the current luxury watch market, with no signs of slowing down in the near future. Although the the concept is ubiquitous today, one of the first brands to explore the possibilities of vintage reissues beyond limited-run specialty models was Longines. In 2007, the Swiss marque first released the [...]
The rear of this Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean GMT Orange Ceramic watch has a curious phrase that Ive never seen on a timepiece before.? According to Omega it is something theyve never placed on a case before either. A promise of World Premiere appears on the case back of this dive watch adjace [...]
While theyve grown in popularity and arent quite as rare as they once were, ceramic watches are still uncommon and pretty costly, all things considered. I first handled this Longines HydroConquest All-Black Ceramic watch back in 2019 at Couture in Las Vegas, and I felt the execution was largely satisfying and worthy of a bran [...]
While the made-for-retail novelties tend to occupy most of the spotlight during the tradeshow cycles, my favorite announcements are routinely found among the concept pieces-stuff thats not commercially viable or even remotely attainable for the vast majority of us. What makes these releases particularly fun or compelling isnt the wild design (though this is all but a g [...]
Being both a full-on watch and?car nut, you can imagine my surprise when in season 22 of British motoring show Top Gear I saw an entire challenge featuring a Breitling?Emergency II watch. Sure,?it is not unusual for watch enthusiasts to be car nuts as well-I have met countless watch nerds over the last few years who, after a bit of conversation,?showed thei [...]
Well, would you look at that the folks over at Richard Mille, known purveyors, of all things, to make crazy lightweight watches, have just come up with a new material to incorporate into their timepiece designs. ?Then again, I say (type?) that with tongue firmly in cheek. While this is certainly a new material in the world of luxury watche [...]
At Baselworld 2016, Breguet debuted a new line extension of their Type XXI with the reference 3817ST/X2/3ZU 2016 Breguet Type XXI 3817 that bears a vintage-style dial with light tan coloring accents. This is my favorite line of watches from Breguet at this time, and like sister brand Blancpain at The Swatch Group, I continue to u [...]
In the context of Richard Mille watches, the RM 011 collection needs little introduction. Originally released several years ago, the Richard Mille RM 011 Felipe Massa collection is arguably the brands original breakout model that helped the ultra-high-end sports watch brand reach its current status in the luxury watch community. For 2015 [...]
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