Oris Hammerhead Limited Edition Watch
For 2017, independent Swiss watchmaker Oris is ushering in a new generation with its core sports watch collection, the Aquis, and doing so with a series of subtle case and dial updates.
Historical Perspectives: Van Cleef & Arpels And The Unusual Cadenas Wristwatch
When you think about Van Cleef & Arpels, what do you think of? The Alhambra necklaces and earrings? The experimental poetic complications watches? If your answer to either of these was “yes,” then I invite you to take a closer look at the Cadenas (or “Padlock”) wristwatch. What started out as a simple appreciation for a cool vintage ladies’ watch turned into a deep interest in the heritage and success of the haute joallerie maison Van Cleef & Arpels and the research led me to some pretty interesting places.
Grand Seiko: Already Big In Japan And Getting Bigger Near You (Archive)
Seiko’s story is much more complicated than most people might think. This is a manufacturer that doesn’t follow trends, but has created a few of its own, capitalizing on various types of expertise and knowledge that were the mother of necessity for a manufacturer located so far away from the established centers of watchmaking in Europe. Grand Seiko is the most appealing line to connoisseurs of fine watchmaking, and we look at it in some depth here.
Omega Launches Online Catalog Of 60 Iconic Omega Speedmaster Moonwatches
Today Omega launched what is a very comprehensive, neatly detailed and, of course, free online catalog of 60 iconic Omega Speedmaster Moonwatches.
The Horological Halfwit: An Unquenchable Obsession With Eberhard
When I was a kid, my father used to call me “Johnny One Note.” Why? Because I would become obsessed with one particular thing, and that’s all I’d talk about for weeks, until the mania finally ran its course. It was a very appealing trait, I’m sure. Amongst my odd and varied childhood obsessions, one of the strangest was an intense romance with a hand-engraving tool (I just realized how that sounds). I had expansive dreams of hand-tooling assorted leather goods with the names of my friends, or customizing glassware with ribald phrases. Really, when I look back, it’s a miracle I had any friends at all.
Elegance in Purity – Up Close & Personal with The Laurent Ferrier Galet Micro-Rotor “Montre Ecole”
“Purity” is, to me, a very desirable notion. This word has a great echo in my books and really is positively oriented. Nothing like “clean” or “uncluttered”. I personally have a soft spot for minimalistic design, for the beauty of a shape and of proportions, for the delicate curves and angles that create an object and that makes it bold, unique and desirable. I love minimalistic and simple approach in design, in furnitures, in architecture and, surprisingly (or not…), in watches. To me, purity also goes along the word detail; because purity and simplicity doesn’t mean void. And that’s where purity becomes beauty… and this where the Laurent Ferrier Galet Micro-Rotor “Montre Ecole” caught me.
Haute Complication: Breguet Tradition 7087 Minute Repeater Tourbillon
Few complications are as prestigious as the tourbillon. While many brands have one in their collection, there is still something special about getting it from the brand that invented it: Breguet, especially when it is not just a tourbillon, but they add something to it!
Hands-On: The Blancpain Villeret Annual Calendar GMT In Steel
The Blancpain Villeret Annual Calendar GMT was a Baselworld 2016 novelty, and when it was introduced at the show it generated a lot of interest thanks to the combination of its case material (steel), its user-friendliness (considerable), and its delivery of bang for the buck (lots, at least, in relative terms). I finally managed to get my hands on one and spent a few days with it, to find out whether or not the initial positive impression stands up to longer exposure.
Review: The Ressence Type 1 Squared – Thin & Dressy
Founded in 2010, Ressence is a brand which satiated an underserved segment. Taking a very mechanical, very analogue method of time keeping and displaying time in a thoroughly futuristic almost digital way. As a result, Ressence is to watchmaking what Pebble was to Silicon Valley, an innovative horological start-up with industrial…
Hands-On with the Urwerk UR-T8, the Reversible Metal Beast
Urwerk has been making remarkably avant-garde watches for two decades now, but it did not produce a reversible watch, until SIHH 2017. That’s where the watchmaker took the covers off the UR-T8, a limited edition to mark its 20th anniversary. Made of titanium, the front and back plates of the case are covered in an […]