Debuted at SIHH 2016 is this new and truly awesome (in both price and design) aviation watch from Richard Mille designed in collaboration with Airbus private jet division. ACJ stands for Airbus Corporate Jets and this arm of the French airplane company produces jetliners for usually 20-50 passengers for the ultra-we [...]

A few days before Christmas 2014, invited a group of Los Angeles watch lovers to visit the Beverly Center Omega watch boutique and then to Jackmond, a special store in Los Angeles started by Jack Khorsandi and dedicated to displaying, servicing, collecting, buying, and selling vintage Omega timepieces. Then, after some deep watch appreciation, whiskey (thanks to Ja [...]

Despite the recent trend toward vibrant color in the luxury watch industry, there are still certain segments of the spectrum that remain under-represented. Purple is a perfect example of this. The color of kings rarely gets attention in watchmaking, but the bold hues long association with power and wealth makes it a dramatic choice for a luxury t [...]

The word tresor means treasure in French, and it is the name of Omegas new collection of ladies watches. The sub-collection, actually, of the De Ville family isnt new in name, but they are new in some other ways for Omega. The Omega De Ville Tresor ladies watch comes in a couple of sizes and a range of styles with different case materials, dial colors, and straps. All include diamonds, but options in sta [...]

For some reason, all of 2012 went by without us posting a single article on Corum on . I personally covered the brand on other sites such as Departures-International.com, during that year, but it was all quiet on this front. So here is a piece I should have covered last year but at least I am getting to it now. This is probably the most int [...]

As global vaccination rates for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continue to climb and travel restrictions around the world begin to loosen, in-person watch industry trade shows are re-emerging in the wake of a year of event shutdowns. The latest trade show to announce its return for 2021 is Geneva Watch Days, which has laid out a schedule for a phygital hybrid event taking [...]

I will continue to say that Jaeger-LeCoultre makes some of the best sport watches around and Jaeger-LeCoultre will continue to communicate very little about them. For the last several years with remarkable consistency, Jaeger-LeCoultre has released one or two new sport watches that offer a great style, interesting and useful complicated move [...]

What is a fashion watch? Well it can mean a couple of things, but in this instance it means a company that mostly makes clothes or other fashion accessories, and then embarks on releasing watches. The nicer the underlying brand, the more expensive the watch. French Hermes not new to this game, but in the last 10 years or so have stepped up their watch offerings. Releasing more mechanica [...]

As a high-end sub-brand of Japanese watchmaking giant Seiko, Grand Seiko has always stood apart. Now, however, it does so formally, as President CEO Shinji Hattori today announced that Grand Seiko will be presented as an entirely separate brand from Seiko. This, in essence, should be interpreted as more of a rebranding exercise and not to mean that the company is now completely independent [...]

This pretty awesome collection is going to make a lot of Depeche Mode fans angry. Not because they are bad homages to the band, but because there will only be one set of them made, which will be auctioned off for charity. Each of the 12 piece unique watches will be auctioned off separately (February 8 24, 2010 [...]

SIHH 2016 was an uplifting watch trade show experience for the team this year as well as the watch industry, in my opinion. From the perspective of watch journalism and editorial, there was a lot to be excited about, as well as many interesting stories to cover. Compared to the last few years which tended to be quite slow the brands displaying at SIHH this year in 2016 had a larger quantity o [...]

In this era of steel-sports-watch madness, it is such a pleasure to see a new collection of high jewelry watches, particularly one with options for men. There are two types of high jewelry watches: the design-focused sort that look like and are made like jewelry, and there is no mistaking that they are for women; and the fully set jewelry watch that usually is a li [...]

New for 2019, Breitling releases an all-new Navitimer with some interesting influence and aesthetic changes. The all-new Breitling Navitimer 1 B01 Chronograph 43 Swissair Edition seems to be the first of an Airlines collection that Breitling promises to expand. Last year, Breitling made a bold move and released an updated [...]

Scattered in this article and in the image gallery below are some images from Roger Dubuis 2012 ad campaign for the Excalibur collection. I dont know who they hired for this and other ads, but when I saw them I was like whoa.! The fantasy loving Tolkeinist inside of me was like holy crap, finally a wrist watch for Middle Earth denizens. With a name lik [...]

With Baselworld 2017 here,?Omega is releasing fourteen new 38mm Speedmaster watches. Some refer to the automatic Omega Speedmasters that come in this size as reduced, and the brand is noting that these Omega Speedmaster 38mm models will be both mens and womens watches. Sized the same, materials and color choices will separate the mens and wom [...]

This is it-the Omega Speedmaster Apollo 11 50th Anniversary watch weve all been waiting for since Baselworld 2018 and before, knowing full well that the 50th anniversary of the most important moon mission in human history was coming in July of 2019. Well, despite plenty of dealers seeing it just a few short days before Baselworld, whispering h [...]

Although special and limited edition watches are incredibly common these days, few brands make these offerings so aesthetically tempting as Grand Seiko. Many limited-edition watches are married with an event or brand partner and branded accordingly. While these models are pitch [...]

Among fans of Formula One, the name Michael Schumacher is spoken in hushed, reverent tones, for it belongs to a man who, even in this modern age of hyperbole, can rightfully be called a racing legend and, perhaps, the greatest driver of all time. Active from 1991 to 2006 and again from 2010 to 2012, the German driver won seven Formula One (F1) World Championships, holds [...]

It aint easy getting excited about dress watches these days, but thats not to say they dont still have their time and place in a thoughtfully assembled watch collection - and its great to see Omega sticking to its guns on the ultra-classic De Ville Tresor watches, which have been refreshed with a new 40mm stainless steel case option, and fitted with [...]

Harry Winston will soon launch this new collection of watches called the Ocean Sport. While I dont think the name sounds particularly high-end (though the Ocean is a long standing Harry Winston watch), they are interesting are relatively simple and satisfying sport versions of the iconic Harry Winston Ocean watch fare.The Ocean Sport will [...]