In the world of vintage watches, Patek Philippe’s chronographs with perpetual calendars occupy a category of their own. They are benchmarks in the industry, and that goes especially for the Reference 2499, which we examine here.
When Ressence announced it was making a dive watch in December 2015, there were more than a few furrowed brows and puzzled glances here at HODINKEE HQ. However, the Type 5 ended up being every bit the high-tech, high-design watch that we’d come to expect from Ressence, just with a sporty twist. Now we’re getting another iteration of the Type 5, the Type 5G, a greyed-out version with more colorful markings and an all-matte finish.
When Ressence announced it was making a dive watch in December 2015, there were more than a few furrowed brows and puzzled glances here at HODINKEE HQ. However, the Type 5 ended up being every bit the high-tech, high-design watch that we’d come to expect from Ressence, just with a sporty twist. Now we’re getting another iteration of the Type 5, the Type 5G, a greyed-out version with more colorful markings and an all-matte finish.
Ressence is one of the lesser known, very small independent watchmakers who have been making waves within the cognoscenti. The watches are catagorised by Types – the Type 1, the Type 3 and the most complicated (to date) the Type 5. This release for SIHH 2017 is the new grey dial for the Type 5. …
There are few watches like the Ressence Type 5. Actually, there are exactly zero watches quite like it – as the Type 5 continues the Ressence tradition of manufacturing the world’s first and still only oil-filled mechanical watches.
First introduced in titanium with a black dial, then in a functional black-on-black guise, the Ressence dive watch is now given a restrained palette with the Type 5G that matches the face and the watch case, in keeping with the minimalist approach of the Belgian watchmaker. The dials and bezel of the Type 5G are in […]
With Hublot, the word Fusion is not just the name of a watch. It is much more than that. it is a motto, a proper guideline for the design. Fusion refers to the concept of mixing materials, something that has always been in the DNA of the bold manufacture. Fusion of gold and ceramic, fusion of metals and rubber, fusion of gold and patinated leather, fusion of everything that you can imagine and more… Hublot dares to integrate in watches materials that you would have never thought about. And they did it again, with the Hublot Classic Fusion Italia Independent, using authentic fabric dials & straps, the result of a collaboration with the highly creative enfant terrible Lapo Elkann.
Delivered in 2010 after six years of work, the Roger W. Smith Tourbillon Commission No. 1 is a bespoke timepiece. Equipped with both a one-minute flying tourbillon – an unusual feature for an English timepiece – and an oversized date display, the watch is a departure from the archetypal Roger Smith wristwatch. In fact, the Tourbillon Commission No. […]
Last year, in 2016, we announced to you a new partnership between Parisian brand Bell & Ross and Formula One Team Renault Sport – a partnership that we didn’t expected at first but that CEO Carlos Rosillo explained to us in details, just to avoid any confusions. Indeed, the brand was usually focused on military and aviation timepieces but this move to F1 and sports cars certainly opens new horizons. Talking novelties, and while the 2017 F1 season will soon begin, Bell & Ross just revealed their new Renault Sport F1 collaboration piece, the BR03 RS17 Chronograph, the new flagship of this race-oriented line of watches.
To discuss Bulgari grand complications and their dedication to high end watchmaking is to return back to the very start of its founding in Rome, 1884. That is not to imply that Bulgari and their history of watchmaking extends to such a distant past but rather the planting of a seed of insight into the innovation and creativity which has…