At Roger Dubuis, an impressively high percentage of the watches they sell include tourbillons in the movements. The perennially avant-garde luxury brand is a unique animal in the Richemont stable of watch companies that for the most part, are much more conservative in both design and execution. Roger [...]

I recently went hands-on with the Longines Spirit three-hand watch, one of two in the inaugural releases for this new pilots watch collection from the brand. Here, I go hands-on with the more complicated sibling with a chronograph and its own design touches. The Spirit Chronograph is another ideal example of what Longines does best - check off [...]

Breitling is going through a bit of a reinvention period for 2018. With a change of leadership under the new CEO Georges Kern, the brand has looked to its past and introduced models based on their vintage catalog to bring Breitling back to its roots, without losing any of the iconic style that Breitling has become known for. For Baselworld 2018, Breitlin [...]

Quatuor is a name I can hardly pronounce but represents a piece of fun from Roger Dubuis that is wonderfully and most exquisitely deranged. Day one at SIHH 2013 is over and I am trying to wrap my mind around all the people I saw and faces I inadvertently forgot. Always good to reunite with friends and have strangers who seem to know you c [...]

The horological highlight from Hublot this year was the long-named Cathedral Minute Repeater Tourbillon and Column Wheel Chronograph watch. In a King Power style case, this watch boasts a case formed out of carbon fiber and a very complex movement that has (Yup, you guessed it!) the time, a tourbillon, a minute repeater, and a chronograph.Presenting it [...]

Back in 2008 IWC released a collection called Vintage which was a bit of a misnomer. It was the beginning of the serious retro watch craze and IWC released a collection of stunning vintage themed versions of their contemporary collection. The kick was that each of the pieces actually did have a real history. So it was new watches based on original vintage watches, but [...]

Ah, now here is a slide-rule bezel complication that I can use. I tend to make fun of these as I am not about to do long-division or calculate fuel consumption on a tiny slide-rule, if I need to figure that stuff out at all But this one is actually handy. This new watch for 2012 from Hamilton is the Khaki X-Patrol and it has a metric to imperial conversion scale. That would prove us [...]

Ive always had a major soft spot for Cartier watches, especially high-end ones. The particular blend of technique, design, and a traditionally Parisian take on luxury makes them feel both conservative and full of personality. The Rotonde de Cartier Mysterious Hour Skeleton (debuted here) is a good example of what to look for when you want a Cart [...]

Sponsored post presented on by advertiserAs the now-official retail partner to the Watches Wonders watch show series, MR PORTER also offers some newly released 2020 timepieces you wont be able to get anywhere else. New timepieces from Watches Wonders member brands Vacheron Constantin, Roger Dubuis, Bovet, and HYT featured in this article are all currentl [...]

With so much of their brand recognition built upon the history of the Reverso, some of Jaeger-LeCoultres other pieces can often be overlooked. This is especially true with their sports watches, and thats a shame, as pieces like this Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Chronograph Ceramic watch are some of the most compel [...]

Jo?o Campos-Silva at Uacari, a sustainable development reserve. He is helping reverse the loss of Amazon wildlife.From the outside looking in, Rolex, the industrys ever-present force major, is about as closed a shop as one could imagine. Every aspect of the companys dealings is s [...]

To be honest when I first checked out this Saxonia Dual Time watch I didnt give it much attention. It was nice, but didnt really look like the A. Lange Sohne watches I was used to. I was frankly more interested in the Richard Lange Tourbillon Pour le Merite as well as the Zeitwerk Striking. It was only after returning to the watch later on did I realiz [...]

Continuing their partnership with the Williams F1 team, Oris has released a new motor sport watch for 2010 that is likely the nicest yet when it comes to a watch made for Williams. This is at least the fourth watch to come from the partnership, and it looks really nice in mostly black with a technical looking blue tr [...]

In a recent interview with Hublots CEO Jean Claude Biver he mentioned to me how Hubot will put a lot of focus into Asia (namely China) in 2012. Boy, he wasnt kidding and I expect a full of series of spectacle style events to ensue in the next few years that only Hublot knows how to put on. Hublot hasnt ignored China up to know. Starting in 2010 the [...]

After writing a few articles about this watch I wanted to step back and think about it a bit. To be the worlds most complicated watch, even for a short period of time is quite a feat. This is measured in terms of complications whi [...]

An interesting time at the various Audemars Piguet watch manufacture facilities leads to an interesting article I wrote in Haute Living. The full text of the Audemars Piguet manufacture article is here, but Ive gone ahead and put images from the visit in the gallery below. Enjoy, I think AP fans and general watch lovers will find it a good read. [...]

If you have a good sense of humor, like to laugh at Hollywood, and want to see some actually very impressive special effects (not to mention makeup) go see the movie Tropic Thunder. While it contains some controversial joking around (people will find issue with almost anything these days), it has a great cast, and some very good acting. Honestly, this is an excellen [...]

Since its birth in 1994, the A. Lange Sohne Lange 1 watch has been the brands most iconic watch. A real gamble at the time, it proved to be a very successful design. You can also thank it for the big date complication that they refer to as an outsized date. Here is a nice picture from A. Lange Sohne with the complete family of all the Lange 1 watches to-date. I tho [...]

SIHH isnt a time for watch brands to hold back and this year, weve seen more than a few jaw-dropping releases thatll certainly keep watch lovers entertained for a while. Some of our favorite models, however, are those that show just how capable brands are when it comes to breaking free from the chains of conservatism [...]

In this, the year of our Portugieser 2020, IWC also just released some new Portugieser Yacht Club watches as part of Watches Wonders 2020. The Yacht Club has always been an interesting sub-category of the Portugieser, intended to be a sportier breed with features like rubber strap an [...]