Spending just a couple of days with an Aston Martin is not enough. When it came time to hand over the key – an actual key that you use to turn on the ignition – to the beautiful Stratus White 2016 Aston Martin Vantage GTS, I felt like I’d only just begun to bond with the car.
Here at Quill & Pad we are quite smitten by Romain Gauthier’s award-winning Logical One. But one thing that often gets glossed over somewhat is the subject of one of this watch’s four patents: the incredible high-precision chain made of synthetic ruby links. Combined with the snail cam, it is this element that provides the ingenious movement with constant force.
Daylight Saving Time (DST) is upon us. As you probably know, that means that starting tomorrow, everyone in a time zone that follows the practice of setting clocks ahead an hour at the beginning of Spring will be waking up, and doing everything else, an hour later than usual. What you might not know is that the first modern proposal for Daylight Saving Time came, over a century ago, from an amateur entomologist, who wanted more time after work and before nightfall to catch insects.
Parmigiani released their latest Tonda 1950 variation at SIHH, now with a white meteorite dial. The elegant dress watch has a slim profile, complete with an attractive looking movement.…
I have no doubts that the new Intra-Matic 68 will be one of Hamilton’s most popular new releases this year. Check out this new vintage-inspired chronograph here.
In a pleasant surprise, Longines invited us for the presentation of a new quartz movement that marks the return of their Very High Precision (“VHP”) watches. It is so important to the brand that Longines wanted to get ahead of the Baselworld 2017 rush.
Omega celebrated the legacy of its iconic Seamaster collection together with the ambassador and James Bond star Daniel Craig at a VIP dinner in NYC.
BASEL BUILDUP: We’re counting down, NASA-style, to Baselworld 2017, the world’s biggest watch fair. It’s 10 days until we launch from Australia on Etihad Airways flight 463 and for the first Basel Buildup post we’re revisiting the Time+Tide team’s top 10 picks from last year’s fair. Read on for Breguet, Nomos, Bell & Ross, TAG Heuer and more. Basel is over, let the lists begin! Not really (spare us) but the memories are still fresh, the passions linger and, frankly, we want to get this done before we board the plane back to Melbourne, leaving this afternoon. Who knows what we’ll remember on the other side of that 24-hour time warp? So I sent out an email to get the wider team’s wants and desires. This is what they came back with. While we’re on the topic of the team, this handsome bunch (there’s just too much cheekbone in Time+Tide, seriously) I’d like to thank them all for their creativity and commitment this last week, it’s been incredible. Group hug. Michiel Impulse buy: The decision for the Nomos Metro neomatik is based purely on design. I like clean and simple interiors. It’s a watch I would buy for myself and not to show…
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Mechanical watches are very important to me. Not only are they the way I earn my living, they’re also a real passion. So it was with a sense of very real unease that I prepared for this review. Not because I have a fundamental aversion to quartz, connected or smart devices, but because I was concerned, deep down, that what the Apple Watch offered might be more compelling to me than the bridges and barrels I love so much. You see, while I’ve been a ‘watch guy’ for the past decade or so, I’ve been an ‘apple guy’ for far, far longer. I learnt to type in ClarisWorks, to create in Paint. And later, the covetable objects of my teenage years were iPods, iBooks and (later) iPhones. I’m typing this right now on an iPad, surrounded by a sum total of five Apple screens, so it’s fair to say I’ve drunk deep from the Cupertino Kool-Aid. And if any smart watch can win me over, it’s likely to be the Apple Watch. The hardware From its launch in 2015, the Apple Watch has evolved from a few products into a fully-formed ecosystem. Now offered in two sizes, numerous case materials and finishes as well…
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The now legendary El Primero from Zenith was presented in January 1969 after seven years of development. It still takes nine months to make one today, but that comes with the territory when you are an icon.