This watch review is going to be a bit different than how I usually do them. Why? Because shortly before the review I was actually able to visit the manufacture making the movements of this watch. That experience offered me some special insight that allowed me to understand this timepiece more.I know there is a lot of talk on the manufacture movement. In fact, a [...]
For me the most interesting watch I saw from Jacob Co. this year was this Ghost G5 timepiece. The Ghost is a brand new collection for 2011 designed by Jacques Fournier (Horology Design Ltd.) in cooperation with Yvan Arpa who is now a figure at Jacob Co. The Ghost will comes in a few forms and is called the G5 and GT5 as well (Ghost 5 time zon [...]
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While vintage-inspired reissue models form the backbone of many brands across the modern watch industry, perhaps no company has embraced its back catalog as thoroughly and extensively as Longines. The Longines Heritage series is a meeting place for vintage designs of nearly every stripe from early pilot chronographs to classic naval deck watches. The super compressor style Lon [...]
Just a few days ago, A.?Lange Sohne?released the?1815 200th Anniversary F.A. Lange watch,?celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birthday of Ferdinand Adolph Lange. The latest release in anticipation of SIHH 2016 is the new A. Lange Sohne?1815 Tourbillon Handwerkskunst. Handwerkskunst is the german word for artisanship, and for a watch from Lange?to [...]
My primary attraction to watches has always generally focused on tool watches. I buy a lot of divers, I like pilots watches, and in my eyes, nothing beats a good chronograph. However, one of the purest forms of watch complication for my use remains a GMT (or a second-time-zoneCmore on this later) function. GMT watches have a lo [...]
Like all industries, the world of timepieces is an ecosystem. Watches are designed, produced, and eventually purchased. That latter part of the necessary cycle is one that is complex and difficult to understand especially for watch writers and enthusiasts who typically have only their own experiences to reference. Most of the time, the relationship that brands have with journalis [...]
Perrelet watch companys new marketing message is that Perrelet watches are for non conformists. That is easy to say, but I like the message. It says me that they dont want everyone wearing their watches (Rolex) they want just a select few who really feel when they experience what the brand has to offer. It is an interesting approach, but [...]
Back in early 2009 I visited A. Lange Sohnes manufacture in Glashutte. It was actually the first watch manufacture I visited, and now almost three years later I have much to compare it to. It is actually a shame that I saw Langes manufacture so early in my career because I did not properly know how to appreciate it at the time. Dont get [...]
With another year comes another Harry Winston Opus watch. As we eagerly anticipate the result per annum, 2011 reveals itself as being a shockingly good season for the collection. Back in 2000 the Opus collection started as a series of limited edition timepieces that were a collaboration between Harry Winston and a single famous watch ma [...]
Coinciding with the start up of Baselworld 2017, Maurice LaCroix has just announced two new models in their Masterpiece Retrograde series of watches one with dual retrograde registers, and one with a moon phase complication. Officially named the Maurice LaCroix Masterpiece Double Retrograde and Masterpiece [...]
Blancpains Fifty Fathoms family of high-end dive watches has been one of my favorite luxury sport watch collections for a while. At Baselworld 2018 Blancpain introduced a few new models in the Fifty Fathoms collection including my favorite, which is this Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Automatique Grande Date 5050. Lets compare the Fifty Fathoms 5050 with the [...]
In the competitive, ultra-hyped space of Genta-influenced luxury steel sports watches, the Piaget Polo line has been a perennial dark horse. Without the pop culture visibility and endless waiting lists of some of its competitors, the Polo has built its own loyal following among enthusiasts over the years thanks to the series lithe styling and solid sporting credentials. Piagets [...]
Geneva Watch Days 2020, first announced earlier this month as a brand-led replacement for the cancelled Watches Wonders 2020 show in Geneva planned for late April 2020, has been rescheduled to August 26 through August 29, 2020 due to the continuing global COVID-19 pandemic. The event, planned as a decentralized alternative to the traditional trade show model of Baselworld and Watch [...]
Is it a good or bad thing that while wearing the Parmigiani Tonda 1950 Tourbillon I more or less forgot that there was a $100,000 plus timepiece on my wrist? On the one hand, it is probably heretical (to the watch gods) to wear such a valuable horological item on my body and treat it with the delicate deference it is due. Its true, I just wore the Tonda 1950 Tourbillon [...]
When Cartier released the previous generation Santos 100 collection in 2004, it was in honor of the 100th anniversary of what is one of the first original watch designs ever created. I reviewed the Cartier Santos 100 here on a couple years ago and still feel very fondly about that model?C but more on that later. Today my focus is on the new Santos de Cartier Large Model t [...]
Out of Casios multitudinous offerings, the G-Shock line always tends to garner the most attention among watch enthusiasts. No question that attention is well-deserved; yet, theuber-tough G-Shocks aesthetics arent for everyone. Thats where the G-Shocks two sister lines, the ProTrek and Edifice, come in. If ProTrek is G-Shocks flannel-clad, outdoor-adventuring sibling, then [...]
How do you create a classic? The statement in and of itself shouldnt make sense as classic things develop over long periods of time. Such instant classics are merely good designs that appeal to many people. What I am talking about is literally making a bona fide classic in the time it takes most people to simply develop a product. I c [...]
Bell ?Ross has made a name for itself with its aviation-inspired timepieces. The brand proudly proclaims that on-board aviation instruments are its guiding force, and it has been very successful in incorporating the theme into wristwatches. Today, the square case and round dials of its [...]
Omega De Ville 424.20.40.20.58.001
Zenith Defy 49.9000.9004/78.R782
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