Business News: Rolex To Build New Manhattan Headquarters
A new tower will replace the brand’s long-standing Midtown home.
In Partnership – Inside The Line: Citizen Promaster Air
In the second installment of our look at the Promaster, we take to the air.
Happenings: WatchTime And Windup Fairs Make For A Fun Watch Lover’s Weekend In New York City
Three days of events, cocktails, and exhibitions for the horologically inclined.
Review – Glashütte Original Sixties Panorama Date Annual Edition “Fiery Orange”
This is something we’ve already said in the past, but it appears that Glashütte Original is becoming more and more… original. By that, we mean that the brand tries new designs, creates things that we clearly didn’t expect from a German watchmaker and comes out with bold, colourful designs. What started in 2015 with the […]
In The Shop – Vintage Watches: A 1968 Rolex Submariner Ref. 5513 Full Set, A 1969 Yema Yachtingraf Croisiere ‘Three Register’ Ref. 93012, And A 1960s Breitling Cosmonaute Gold-Plated Ref. 809 With 24-Hour Dial
Vintage is back! This week’s round-up features a number of classic models as well as some more uncommon ones.
Introducing: The Zenith Chronomaster El Primero C.01 x Collective
A new version of the El Primero, for a new kind of watch club.
The Cartier Santos-Dumont is a lesson in distilled elegance
Cartier is a brand that doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but instead gradually evolves their designs over decades, refining and purifying their core look with each year that goes by. For their latest collection, released at SIHH 2019, the focus was the Cartier Santos-Dumont, a dress watch that is both classically sized and slim, offering one of the most refined pieces of Cartier design we have seen in recent years. The new Cartier Santos-Dumont is available in two sizes (38mm x 27.5mm for the small model, and 43.5mm x 31.4mm for the large model) and both have managed to stay rakishly slender at 7.3mm. This is made possible by the high-autonomy quartz movement (with a strong battery life of six years), which not only keeps the watch well under the cuff, but also makes it available at a price point that is pretty uncommon for Cartier. Inevitably, there will be some who won’t have their pulse quickened by mention of the word quartz, but for others looking for access to an icon not just in the Cartier archives but the history of watch design, it is now easier than ever. In terms of design, the Santos-Dumont is distinctly Cartier with a…
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Introducing – Louis Moinet Only Mexico and Metropolis Mexico for SIAR 2019
Mexico City’s Salon Internacional Alta Relojería (SIAR) is Latin America’s most important annual watch fair. As such, this major horological event has become an opportunity for brands to release special editions celebrating Mexico and its culture. Among the watches presented in 2019 are two Louis Moinet pieces, the “Only Mexico” and “Metropolis Mexico”. Louis Moinet […]
RECOMMENDED READING: History of the Must de Cartier Tank
Editor’s note: I think most people reading this fully appreciate just how dire things were in the 1970s as a result of the notorious “quartz crisis”. Myriad Swiss watchmakers seemed to just disappear overnight, succumbing to a battery-powered onslaught led by Seiko, who inundated the wristwatch market with inexpensive, accurate timepieces. It was an interesting time in horology to say the least, and perhaps one of the most fascinating things about the quartz crisis, looking back at it now, is studying how the established Swiss marques dealt with the problem and tried to keep their proverbial heads above water. Cartier, in particular, were quite innovative in their solution to the crisis – create a range of inexpensive timepieces to pay tribute to its most popular timepiece, the Tank, but use more economical materials to produce it. The result was the Must de Cartier Tank, and a range of wristwatches that went a fair way to saving Cartier from a particularly calamitous era in watchmaking. Writing for troisanneaux.com, George Cramer chronicles the history of Must de Cartier, and if you’ve got the time, hit this link – it’s definitely worth a read.
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Introducing – Van Bricht Old Mind, a Handmade Tourbillon Watch from Belgium
Two young Belgian watchmakers got to know each other at the watchmaking school of Namur. After one of their long midnight conversations about watches, they decided to start their own brand (I’m sure you can picture the scene). By 8 o’clock in the morning, the first sketches were ready. Now that watch has become a […]