The trend of vintage-inspired watches is still going strong in 2017 and one of the most talked about watches at Baselworld this year was the Intra-Matic 68 by Hamilton. Not only is it inspired by a vintage Hamilton chronograph, it also has a reverse panda dial, which is in fashion right now. To me, this new Hamilton Intra-Matic 68 is a logical progression from the two-hand [...]

Earlier in 2021, Japans Citizen made big waves in the watch industry space by announcing a slew of new mechanical watches, including new automatic mechanical movements. While the Citizen Groups Miyota movement factory has been continuously making quartz and mechanical movements for some time, it has been over a decade since Citizen, as a brand, introduced a new [...]

With its bright white color shot through with dramatic darker streaks, white marble has caught the eye of sculptors, architects, and the general populace for millennia. Its a material almost intrinsically tied with feelings of power, authority, and luxury, so in theory white marble should be no stranger to the world of luxe horology. While the stone does make an occasio [...]

Youve just gotta hand it to Breitling. Sometimes awesome, sometimes baffling, but never lacking confidence, its clear that the independent brand is comfortable sticking to its guns by delivering watches big on personality-like the new Breitling?Avenger Hurricane. An unapologetic beast of a watch that comes on the heels of the release of the Breitling Avenger Bandit, the Hurricane enca [...]

The new white-faced?Parmigiani Fleurier?Tonda 1950 Meteorite watch joins two previous versions of the meteorite-dialed watches which came in darker colors of dark blue and black. This new version comes from a meteorite discovered in Sweden, which delivers a uniquely icy look to a product that certainly conjures the brooding darkness of the cosmos from which the celestial stone o [...]

Of the new crop of Breguet Marine watches, this simple three-hand Marine 5517 in titanium is my favorite option (here as the ref. 5517TI/G2/TZ0 with the matching bracelet). first covered the debut of the Breguet Marine 5517 watch here, and today I go hands-on with this interesting and high-end casual Swiss watch that has a lot of details to discuss.Breguet recently re-int [...]

This year at Baselworld 2017, the vintage reissue/vintage inspired craze hit its nadir, with most watches landing in the decent yet forgettable category. However, two standout vintage reissues were the first Seiko Diver Prospex watches and this, the Rado Captain Cook. A vintage replica of a watch from the 1960s, the Captain Cook stays true to the original 37mm watch but also int [...]

Boy, this would have been a very different story to write had the San Francisco Giants made better on their historic regular season by getting past the Dodgers, but thats a story for another time - and quite frankly, another website. So instead, heres a fun fact: Did you know the Golden Gate Bridge isnt actually red, but orange? Its red in all the postcards a [...]

Since its introduction in 2011, the Patek Philippe Ref. 5270 perpetual calendar chronograph has been a fan favorite among the brands more classic offerings, hearkening back to the classic 1941 Ref. 1518. While packing a stunning series of complications and maintaining a remarkably compact, classic aesthetic, those searching for a Ref. 5270 with a traditional yellow gold [...]

If you think about it, theres actually so much more we could do to a watch dial than giving it simple colors and textures and fussing over text, configurations, and date windows. Its a blank canvas waiting to be brought to life. It is a treat whenever a brand does something off the beaten track. And thats exactly what we have here with the [...]

It is well documented that Swiss watch brand Parmigiani was founded by antique watch restorer and brand namesake Michel Parmigiani with the financial backing of the Sandoz Family Foundation. The foundations activities are varied, but among them is a collection of horological works of art which influence Parmigianis c [...]

The newest Breitling Navitimer models are new GMT versions that sport quite beefy 48mm wide cases and also new 46mm wide Navitimer models debuted the 2014 Navitimer GMT watches here. Breitling makes watches for guys who like big watches. That might just be a good slogan for the brand moving forward. In fact, among the mainstream luxury brands, Breliting is among the few that routinely make [...]

Roger Dubuis (the brand) has had a very interesting history over the last 15 years or so and none of what I am referring to has anything to do with their watches. The man Roger Dubuis started it 1995. He was later ousted from his own brand by a guy who I h [...]

Bulgaris Bulgari-Bulgari is one of their most iconic designs, and for 2013 has received a deserved update. The history of the Bulgari Bulgari (Bvlgari Bvlgari) is over 35 years old and once again begins with Mr. Gerald Genta. The late watch designer is responsible for perhaps too many of todays top luxury watch icons. There is good reason why [...]

I am pretty happy that the new Rambo movie was as watch-centric as it was. Through the intensely blood-bathed action fest are numerous shots of watches on the characters wrists. Sylvester Stallones John Rambo adorns an interesting Panerai watch. It has been a Hollywood tradition for sometime that popular movie characters have a watch fitting their nature and status. We k [...]

There was a lot of controversy over the three-handed Below Zero watch that Hamilton released within the last year. I spoke about it here, and suggested that it had a subtle art deco styling. A good deal of people disagreed, while many saw exactly what I was talking about. I didnt realize a little bit of art deco was something to disagree over. Suffice it to say that the [...]

Each year we get a new stream of interesting Harry Winston Ocean watches. Many are cool, some are strange, and some like this Ocean Triple Retrograde Chronograph watch just seem to hit a sweet spot. Release of this watch coincides with the interesting news th [...]

At the Breitling Summit here in Los Angeles, the brand just announced a handful of new releases, with this new Aviator 8 Mosquito being one of the more clamored-over pieces. Youll recall the olive green Curtiss Warhawk version of this chronograph, while the Mosquito goes black in an ADLC (amorphous diamond-like carbon) case with red and orang [...]

I recently wrote about the new for 2011 ultra thin RM 033 watch here. My hands-on review showed you the version of the RM 033 (RM033) with the Roman numeral dial. As promised, here is an exclusive look at the RM 033 with an Arabic numeral dial. The face is cleaned up and large Richard Mille style Arabic numerals are placed at the 12, 3, 6, and 9 oclock placements. [...]

Baselworld, thank goodness, is not exclusively about the most complicated, the most exclusive, the super expensive. There are relatively much more affordable, fun, and cool watches too, and when we covered the Hamilton Khaki Navy Frogman release a few moons back, I put it on my list of must-see pieces at BaselWorld 2016. See it we did, as James and I got to go hands-on an [...]