A feat of technical mastery, the Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar Openworked dresses the artistic openworked sapphire dial and the movement’s visible pink gold components in black ceramics… More here. I shouldn’t like this, but I really do. The 20m water… Read More ›
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Xiaomi’s first (Apple) smartwatch
The watch has an almost-identical rectangular touchscreen face with rounded corners and a lookalike rotating ridged crown button for scrolling, which is also located above a similar-looking pill-shaped button on the right side of the watch. Those are all right… Read More ›
The 1969 Quartz Astron 50th Anniversary
Despite the technology inside, Seiko made sure also to use traditional skills by their artisans. The 18-carat yellow gold case has been hand-carved, just like the original watch from 1969. I can only imagine that this case had a futuristic… Read More ›
An Understated Omega Watch from 1947
Omega’s tourbillon movements were built to high standards and did well in the trials, but such competitions were essentially meant for R&D purposes as well as overall brand prestige — they were mostly never even put in watch cases. There… Read More ›
This is how a GMT should be done
With the GMT, the independent Glashütte manufactory Moritz Grossmann presents its first watch model with two time zones. This function is in great demand among watch connoisseurs who travel a lot. A glance at the GMT provides orientation in different… Read More ›
Five hours turning back clocks…
A pensioner who really loves clocks is set to spend five hours turning back the dials on his 5,000 timepieces. Roy West, 75, has been collecting clocks for almost 40 years and has covered practically every inch of wall space… Read More ›
Is this watch perfect?
But this small watch, with its dauphine hands, applied markers, and engine-turned bezel, held up fine, even through some harrowing moments. In one photo, we see Chichester, drill in hand, Rolex on wrist, making repairs to the damaged gunwale of… Read More ›
The Hublot Big Bang MP-11 SAXEM
Hublot used last week’s SIAR show in Mexico City earlier this month as a platform to debut its newest experimental timepiece, the Big Bang MP-11 SAXEM, which owes its vivid green hue to a material called SAXEM, shorthand for sapphire… Read More ›
The Oris Art Blakey
This watch celebrates American jazz drummer and band leader Art Blakey, who won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. The watch is based on the Oris Artelier and features a dial decorated with the eight claws of Art’s bass… Read More ›
Zodiac x Andy Mann Super Sea Wolf 68
The most interesting feature of the watch, without a doubt, is the dial. It’s a gradient dial, going from a pale blue at 12:00 to an inky black at 6:00. We’ve seen dials like this before, notably on the Rolex… Read More ›