Featuring a fold-away winding crank on the side that you wind to charge a super capacitor, the Urwerk EMC TimeHunter allows you to monitor the watch’s accuracy with a precision monitoring device as well as monitoring balance amplitude. Previous iterations were very cool, but the new Urwerk EMC Time Hunter X-Ray is so named because of its skeletonized dial which affords a look inside its fascinating mechanics.
Fusing traditional watchmaking and electronics, the latest iteration of the Urwerk EMC features a skeletonised dial that reveals the mechanics of the movement. First introduced in 2013, the EMC attempts to perfect the old fashioned mechanical wristwatch with high-tech: an electronic rate monitor powered by a hand crank, which indicates whether the movement is running fast […]
Under the leadership of Jean-Claude Biver, TAG Heuer has been making some moves that are helping to reenergize the brand. The TAG Heuer Aquaracer keeps getting better, and these new models improve on the previous version with cool black PVD titanium cases and hip, vibrant colors.
Chronographs Before we hit it with our top 10 chronographs overview, a few words about this list. A chronograph is one of the most popular complications (besides a date), and it is actually a very complex mechanism. It is the reason why some brands still don’t have their own chronograph movement and use one from […]
With the release of the Luminor 1950 Equation of Time 8 Days GMT Titanium Panerai is placing one of haute horlogerie’s most misunderstood complications into the classic Luminor package. Primarily known as one of the archetypal tool-watches, this latest release plucks the Luminor from the depths of the ocean and puts it in the planetarium.…
One of the hottest watches in the mid-2000s, the BR 01 has now entered maturity, and so has to go further to stand out. While keeping the aviation instrument-inspired watch case, the BR 01 Burning Skull is elaborately decorated with inked engravings. Covering all faces of the square case, the Burning Skull radically different look from the […]
Officine Panerai, celebrated the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge over the holiday weekend in Newport, Rhode Island. Winners of the event announced.
The technical development of the chronograph is a fascinating story, and there may be no one more qualified to tell it than Dr. Sébastien Chaulmontet, Head of Movement Design for Arnold & Son, Angelus Watches, and La Joux-Perret. At the September meeting of the Horological Society of New York, Dr. Chaulmontet will lecture on the history of the chronograph, from its predecessors to the creation of the so-called modern (pocket) chronograph.
In a press conference in Geneva today, Frederique Constant CEO Peter Stas announced that subsidiary MMT Swiss Connect has been spun off into its own independent company that was not included as part of the Citizen acquisition earlier this year. Stas also introduced MMT’s new CEO, its latest products, and its new business model. And we’ve got a lot to say about it all.
The Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris will host for the first time a thematic exhibition staged by the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie illustrating the history of watchmaking and the the tracing of the measurement of time.
