The annual calendar chronograph is a thoroughbred Patek Philippe product, a testament to the brand’s impressive talent for combining complications and inventiveness. Invented and patented by Patek, the annual calendar complication debuted in 1996 and ten years later, it was married to a flyback chronograph (with the reference 5960). More robust than a perpetual calendar […]
Just last year we visited a fascinating young independent watchmaking company, set up in an old carpet factory in Glasgow, Scotland. This brand goes by the name of anOrdain and has made a name for itself through a series of well-crafted and fun time-only watches. Things started with the Model 1 and vitreous enamel dials, […]
In 1837 founder Thierry Hermès began making harnesses and saddles to cater to the equestrian locomotion requirements of the day. When Emile Hermès took the reins of the Maison in 1920, and horses and carriages had been replaced by automobiles, he had to find a way to channel his craftsman’s skills into new products. Harnessing […]
Two years after the introduction of the Octa movement, F.P. Journe presented the Octa Divine in 2003. With its combination of time, moon phase, large date, small seconds and power reserve indications, the Octa Divine’s automatic mechanism was capable of delivering 160 hours of power reserve with 120 hours of precision timekeeping. Initially introduced in […]
It’s not often we figuratively get to cross the Atlantic Ocean to discover the work of a young and upcoming watchmaker. But recently we did just that to bring you the Ref. 119C, the stunning debut watch by Canadian independent watchmaker Aaron Sarauer. Under the name of Sarauer Horology, he produces this very good-looking time-only […]
Roughly four and a half billion years ago, a burning meteorite hurtled through space at 28,000 km/h before crashing on Earth and scattering its iron masses across the Kalahari Desert in Namibia. The distinctive crisscrossing patterns of the meteorite are produced during the melting and cooling stage and have caught the eye of several watch […]
The passion for music can run just as deep as the passion for watches, or anything else for that matter. I have yet to come across someone who absolutely dislikes all kinds of music, as there’s always something that resonates with you. Delbana captures the spirit of music with its Recordmaster, created to celebrate the […]
The German single-handed watch manufacturer MeisterSinger was founded in 2001 and revolves around a more relaxed take on the passing of time. Instead of relying on hours, minutes and seconds hands to indicate time, MeisterSinger strips this back to the essentials only, with just one single hand. This simplified display dates back to the earliest […]
To kick things off, this will be a very personal story, and yes, it is about a mechanical watch. When I first got into watchmaking, I knew very little about the history of the industry or the different regions in the world that dominate it. My knowledge came from magazines, movies and TV shows, billboards […]
Abraham-Louis Breguet is famous for many horological innovations, including his successful perpetual watches of the 1780s that were equipped with an oscillating weight to capture the kinetic energy of a wearer’s wrist movements and wind the mechanism. Often equipped with a calendar mechanism, these models were also the first to be christened with his signature […]