The Panerai Luminor Due Collection is more than three years-old, but the slimline branch of the famous line is definitely aging gracefully. This update to the Panerai Luminor Due Watch Collection brings together a series of navy blue sunray and matte ecru dials, which look fantastic alongside each other. There is, however [...]

It is ironic (and sad), that literally a week or two after I visited the Audemars Piguet Watch Museum in Le Brassus, it was burglarized! Yup, flat out heist. The thieves scaled the sides of the building with a ladder, broke into a window and ran off across the border into France with some watches. I am not sure what they were able to run off with. The mus [...]

Back in 2004,?Parmigiani secured a partnership with one of the worlds absolute best and most coveted car manufacturers, Bugatti. During these last 12 years, they have worked together on releasing a number of limited edition timepieces, from ones linked to the original Type 370 watch, all the way to the stunning Bugatti Super Sport watch that I [...]

It was in 2009 that A. Lange Sohne released the original Zeitwerk watch and, oddly enough, Ive never fully covered it on , despite having a great fondness for the piece. Five years later in 2014, and suddenly we have our first hands-on look at a timepiece Ive always loved. Better late then never, right? It just go [...]

The use of materials in innovative and beneficial ways is the current space race in contemporary mechanical watches, and Panerai wants to show that its no slouch in this arena. The brand-new-for-2017 Panerai LAB-ID Luminor 1950 Carbotech 3 Days PAM 700 watch utilizes different materials in its movement that have reduced friction to a minimum. In fact, t [...]

Pre-WWII chronographs built by Minerva are among some of the most criminally underrated vintage watches of that particular era, so it should come as no surprise that with Montblancs purchase of the Villeret-based manufactory in 2004, wed see plenty of subsequent visits to the archives, as well as implementation in Montblancs modern offerings. This has [...]

Originally released almost two decades ago now, the Breitling Aerospace is a wildly popular model that underwent a series of minor visual updates over the years. The watch has recently sort of been off the radar as Breitling focused on other watches ? especially those mechanical ones with [...]

When it comes to categorizing watches, we tend to organize them by the strict purposes their styles were originally meant for. That translates into a world of dive watches, pilot watches, racing watches, formal watches, business watches, etc A category that only loosely exists in the traditional sense but that is nevertheless extremely important [...]

Despite the long-standing popularity of the Big Pilots Watch series and IWCs status as one of the most prolific pilots chronograph makers in the industry, the brand has never brought a chronograph complication to the line-until now. Rather than simply introducing a chronograph complication to the familiar flieger-style IWC design, the brand en [...]

This skeletonized moonphase version of the Hermes Slim (Slim dHermes) is a particularly nice high-end timepiece that is also probably easy to miss. has reviewed versions of the Hermes Slim in the past, and it is among our favorite contemporary dress watches out there. The Paris-based luxury house does something really nice with these watches, and the Vaucher (which [...]

When met up with Omega to cover some of its new 2021 watch releases, it became immediately clear how important materials science was to the team in Bienne, Switzerland. For Omega, that means two things this year. First, it means new ways of finishing popular materials like ceramic. But it also means introducing new materials and te [...]

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New for 2019 is the Patek Philippe 5212A Calatrava Weekly Calendar watch, which debuts a new calendar function that displays the week number in addition to the day of the week. The watch comes in a steel case, which is always of note when we are talking about Patek Philippe. Its another quirky Calatrava wat [...]

The 9S family of movements represents Grand Seikos modern range of mechanical watches, and Seiko is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Following three-hand models introduced at Baselworld 2018, the newest 9S GMT limited edition watch has seemingly appeared out of nowhere. Seiko wants the new Grand Seiko GMT SBGM235G 9S Mechanical 20th [...]

I recently nominated a few key luxury watch brands for a reader poll on Luxist.com. The poll was to determine what brand people considered to be the top luxury brand. Not exactly a scientific study, but it is interested to see what people who read the worlds top luxury blog had to say on the topic. It wasnt too difficult to consider the nominees. It wasnt a matter of who n [...]

It is cool to see the Swatch Group fill out more of its brands affordable collections with upgraded ETA movements and COSC chronometer-certified versions at that. The Mido Multifort Chronometer is the latest to join the slowly expanding club with its Caliber 80 Si. This means the Mido Multifort Chronometer offers an overall package with [...]

Doing anything different that doesnt smack of trying too hard is really tough in the world of watch design. In 1978, Henri DOrigny did just that. And the Hermes Arceau Petite Lune is the perfect expression of that genius. Continue reading

There are more new Code 11.59 watches for 2021, including this particularly attractive (and high) skeletonized tourbillon version. What is the most immediately distinctive about the novel reference 26600CR.OO.D009KB.01 Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 Tourbillon Openworked is the two-tone case, which makes use of both 18k white and pink gold. Audemar [...]

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Easily the quirkiest and most entertaining-to-describe watch collection produced by German?A. Lange Sohne is the Zeitwerk. Originally debuted about a decade ago, the Zeitwerk collection is typified by its digital hour and digital minute display for the time, along with a traditional analog subsidiary seconds dial and power reserve indicator. The overall [...]