In what I believe is its second year, the Roger Dubuis Hommage collection receives its most impressive piece to date, with the Roger Dubuis Hommage Minute Repeater Tourbillon Automatic watch, now close to the end of 2014. The original goal of the Hommage collection was to evoke the o [...]
Slim dHermes Titane (or Hermes Slim Titanium, for us English speakers) is a new-for-2019 version of the acclaimed?Hermes Slim watch (full review here) in titanium. We covered the?Hermes Slim Titanium after its initial release a few months back when Hermes asked to debut the product. Much of the background and technical details of this Slim Titane can be found there and, for th [...]
As official timekeeper for the Olympic games on 27 occasions since 1932, Omega certainly has earned the right to get a little carried away with its commemorative, Olympiad-themed limited editions. Coming once every two years, these colorful offerings have typically been re-skinned versions of Omegas most popular sport watch collections, with details p [...]
Aviation has always been at the core of the Bell Ross brand ethos. From its very earliest pilot watches onward, the marque has always turned its eye towards flight, and nowhere is this inspiration more literal than in the cockpit instrument-themed BR 03 series. For the latest interpretation in the series, Bell Ross has taken aim at one of the centerpieces of the modern figh [...]
When I first saw this Piaget watch almost a year ago it was safely put away behind glass, teasing me with its no-so-thin charms. At 43mm wide and just 5.25mm thick, this is a dream come true for people who want a stately looking watch in diameter, but also one that offers an extremely thin profile on the wrist. So thin in fact, that this watch holds the [...]
Japans Citizen watches is a fortunate group because it has one of the most valuable licensing agreements around - with Disney and all of its brands. This allows Citizen to produce Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and more styles of watches. The design universe available to them is enormous. Many of these watches are for more mainstream appeal [...]
The old-new?Da Vinci collection from IWC made its return at SIHH 2017, ditching the not very successful angular case from some ten years ago in favor of a classical, round design. As safe-play as that may sound, the?IWC Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Chronograph has, sort of unexpec [...]
It was back in 2009 when first debuted the original Perrelet Turbine watch collection. The whimsical spinning-dial-based timepiece was a hit for the brand, which, at the time, was undergoing a major visual refresh and semi-rebranding. Perrelet is a high-end brand that is part of the Spanish Festina group. (The same entity also owns the Swiss movement maker Soprod.) Per [...]
There are some watches out there that, one might feel, appear to have always been around. The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Diver Chronograph works so well as a natural extension to the Diver collection that, to me, it is certainly such a watch. A couple weeks ago at SIHH 2016, Audemars Piguet finally enhanced th [...]
From a strictly military?perspective, wearing a white dial dive watch on a mission would possibly cause your fellow commando soldiers to smack you in the back of the head. But what the Panerai Luminor Base 8 Days Acciaio PAM561 lacks in historical accuracy and stealth capabilities it makes up for [...]
Remember all your friends and coworkers who tried to get you to buy into bitcoin about a year ago, and when you heard the term blockchain at least once an hour? Well, Hublot does, and theyve released the Hublot Big Bang Meca-10 P2P watch for the all savvy and successful bitcoin investors of the world. The Hublot Meca-10 P2P is a limited e [...]
Tuesday, September 29th 2015, saw the official opening of Hublot 2, Hublots new workspace that adds a massive 8,000 m2 to their operational space. Located in Nyon, a literal stones throw from Hublot 1 (built in 2009), Hublot 2 will enable the brand?to delve deeper into the manufacturing process, conduct more essential research and development, and increase their assembly and after-sales pro [...]
Episode three of the quickly evolving podcast how HourTime (starring myself and John Biggs) is now online.We discuss some winners of the watch industry version of the Oscars, the Grand Prix dHorlogerie de Geneve 2009. Winners included Richard Mille, Greubal Forsey, the Hublot Black Caviar $1 million watch, Audemars Piguet and A. Lange Sohne. We [...]
Parked in front of the booth for watch- and jewelry-maker Jacob Co. at Baselworld 2019 was a sleek, black Bugatti supercar. Bugatti is one of the most powerful names (and engines) in the automotive world, as well as one of the most exclusive. The German-owned, Italian car maker was previously associated with watchmaker Parmigiani, but this year we s [...]
Omega, as a sponsor of the PGA, is rather excited about the upcoming golfing event. Golf is a serious sport for many people and whether or not you are into the game, you cant deny the power it has over many peoples lives. For years, the worlds biggest watch brands such as Rolex, Omega, and TAG Heuer have all had [...]
To commemorate the inauguration of their new boutique in Caesars Palace Forum Shops in Las Vegas, Hublot launched the Vegas boutique-exclusive Hublot Big Bang Las Vegas Edition timepieces. While there are technically four different references, they are all functionally the same watch offered with different case materials and diamond configurations.< [...]
The Omega Seamaster 300M Co-Axial Chronograph 41.5mm sure has been around for a good while now, and it admittedly is not the sort of Omega thats been taking headlines in recent years, but boy, have I grown to love it for all these-and a variety of other-reasons. It is not without its own quirks either, so lets see how it fares in th [...]
Italian watch and fashion brand Bulgari has collaborated with Italian car maker Maserati on special edition watches since 2012. The latest fruits of that collaboration were released at the Frankfurt motor show, and they are a pair of Bulgari Octo Maserati Mono-Retro watches that despite being individually named are essentially different material versions of an Octo with a dial design based [...]
Not to be outdone by Audemars Piguet and their claims to Formula 1 racing, Hublot, the official watch brand of F1, has announced the F1 King Power Austin as a tribute to the United States Grand Prix which was held in Austin, Texas this past weekend. Limited to just 250 units, this titanium cased chronograph boasts a carbon and titanium bezel which has been styled to look like a cross-drilled? p [...]
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