Casio recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the MR-G family of top-grade G-Shock watches. The story of the MR-G is part engineering, part marketing, and all passion from the dedicated designers at Casio who make durable G-Shock watches.
Forget for a moment that the Chairman of Hublot, and the man-behind-the-brand Jean-Claude Biver would look frighteningly Santa-like in a red jumpsuit, sans the paunch. Disregard also that he’s the only other man on earth with the kind of energy required to visit every single household in the world in one night, and just focus on the fact that the Big Bang Meca-10 All Black is basically living, ticking, time-telling Mecano, in a very adult form. Those old enough may recall getting it as a child – and building a train, or a bridge. This far more baller variant requires no assembly. Just a wrist, which, with this on it, is about to get a major renovation. Who should you buy this for: The adult that doesn’t want to grow up, but likes all the good things that come with it. What’s the damage: Under $30k
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Not that long ago, we reviewed the Victorinox I.N.O.X Paracord watch. Today, we have a look at the I.N.O.X Professional Diver. This is basically the bigger (45mm) brother of the 43mm I.N.O.X (Paracord) and comes with a uni-directional rotating bezel. I.N.O.X. Professional Diver This watch is very similar to the I.N.O.X. Paracord that we reviewed in this […]
It was a complete leap of faith. @thetiafox, Melbourne-based citizen of the world and curator of all things immaculate looks like she was born to work with a watch like the Cartier Hypnose. So, with a little help from Cartier Australia, we arranged for the two to meet. The plan was simple: get them together for a week, then get out of the way. The results were, well, romantic. The Tia Fox, or Melanie Liu to use her real name, not only took the watches to some of Melbourne’s most magnificent and romantic spaces – all with a classic, architectural bent to reference the design of the Hypnose, so thoughtful this one – she also built the photo shoot around a little love story; a narrative about a couple that meet when the female lead (Mel) drops a printed neck scarf in the docklands. To say any more would be to give the story away. To find out more, check in at The Tia Fox on Instagram where a couple of the images have already been posted, with another going up later today. So we’ll hold fire until Friday, when Mel will publish all photos from the shoot, and share her…
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Let us start off by saying that if we’d known just how busy Melbourne-based photographer Kristoffer Paulsen was when we arranged to lend him the Black Bay 36, we’d have said, “How about we raincheck this project?” Not only is Kris under the pump with his commercial work (there’s a good chance you’ve drooled over his pictures of food at some point), he’s also exhibiting at Tailfeather Concept Store and dealing with the end of the year like the rest of us. In addition, he’s also just bought a house (well done!) and got married (congratulations!). Let the boy have a lie down, please. Yet somehow, in the midst of all that, he managed to spend a week with the Black Bay 36, delivering a series of beautiful images that speaks to the watch as an object of pure design, as well as giving us a glimpse into Kristoffer’s life. My first impression was… that I really liked the watch – it has an understated look that really resonated. However the fabric strap took some getting used to – on reflection I think I’d have preferred a version on a steel bracelet or leather strap. Once I put it on, I felt… smarter. You know…
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Vacheron Constantin has a full suite of Métiers d’Art timepieces featuring lavish decoration in enamel and other artisanal techniques, but the Métiers d’Art Villes Lumières centres on an unusual theme: nighttime aerial views of New York, Paris or Geneva. Each of the Villes Lumières – which translates as “city lights” – depicts the cityscape with champlevé enamel in varying hues of […]
Tourbillons. It’s impossible not to have a conversation about Breguet without mentioning them, much less walk through that manufacture without seeing them. The tourbillon is Breguet. This two hundred year old mechanism is (and we have said this ad nauseam so please forgive me if you know this already) a mechanism that constantly rotates the balance wheel, balance spring and escapement, to counter the negative effect of Earth’s gravity on accuracy. It improves the overall precision of pocket watches, although the usefulness of the tourbillon in wristwatches is, to this day, very much a subject of debate.
Fonderie 47 uses metal from AK-47s that they decommission in Africa to create parts for its products; the idea is to turn a tool of violence into a symbolic and inspiring luxury object, giving clients not only the feeling they are doing something good for the world, but seeing to it that they are actually doing good for the world.
Here are five timepieces from Blancpain, Girard-Perregaux, Hublot, Jaeger-LeCoultre and Vacheron Constantin that are sure to make his eyes sparkle.
After first hearing about this new Divers Sixty-Five a few weeks ago, I was finally able to get some hands-on time and to get my first true impressions of the watch (because press images never, ever, do a watch justice). The watch was part of a special preview of the company’s 2017 collection, which took place last week in Zermatt, Switzerland. The new diver was in unfamiliar territory then, unlike the brand’s new mechanical Altimeter, and while I’d love to take it diving, the mountains provided a nice backdrop for this edition’s silver color scheme, the only real update to this version of the well-known Divers Sixty Five. And that’s certainly not a bad thing.