The “Battle Of your Queen Cows” will not be a bullfight – the cows will not attempt to gore one another with their horns and also a battle, when it takes place, is for dominance inside the herd as opposed to to inflict injury. Typically the way in which it operates, apparently, is that a […]
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Here at aBlogtoWatch, we have covered our fair share of chronograph watches, and oftentimes they can be bunched into the “sportier” side of life. This isn’t to say that there aren’t chronographs out there that can be seen as dressy; in fact, with so many brands evolving their lines to include new materials and classier touches, […]
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The 2017 Blancpain St. Valentine’s Day Special Edition. When it comes to fine watches, it sometimes seems like every day is Father’s Day. No need to create a special watch to celebrate men, since most mechanical timepieces are already geared to male aficionados. Blancpain, however, thoughtfully singles out women once a year for a special-edition […]
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My absolute favorite watches are pretty-looking sport models. There is a significant volume of these watches around, but really attractive ones are hard to find. Probably the biggest challenge in making a beautiful-looking sports blancpain bathyscaphe chronograph is to first make sure it is a great utility watch, and only then ensuring it is visually […]
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Some major watch brands seem to really think highly of ceramic as a case material and Blancpain is among them. Previously a closely guarded field of expertise of Rado and Chanel, ceramic technology and production techniques have only recently evolved to a point where more brands are entertaining the idea of a ZrO2 case, since a […]
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The past few years have seen the launch and steady expansion of Blancpain’s Bathyscaphe line up. In 2013, we saw the original three-hander, 2014 gave us the Bathyscaphe Chronograph, and then the beautifully blue Bathyscaphe Ocean Commitment Chronograph came in 2015. This year, Blancpain completed the family portrait with the latest iteration of the Bathyscaphe, […]
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Considered one of the nicest issues regarding the layout from the watch, and one thing which genuinely adds to its daily-wearableness, is that Blancpain has omitted just about everything pointless through the layout; most conspicuously, there’s no “annual calendar” written anywhere as well as the blancpain calendar is much better for it. George Daniels famously […]
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TAG Heuer has just unveiled its second smartwatch, and this time it’s officially “Swiss Made.” The new electronic watch’s finally assembly is tackled in TAG’s La Chaux-de-Fonds workshop, qualifying it for the official designation, and it also introduces a new modular concept that hopes to eliminate the issue of obsolescence that plagues smartwatches, no matter […]
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From now until the end of April, TAG Heuer is showcasing a small collection of historically important watches, most of them chronographs from the 1960s and ’70s, in one of its Paris boutiques. If you find yourself in the French capital, you should definitely head to 12 Boulevard des Capucines and pay the boutique a […]
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A Link IN TIME. To celebrate its 30th birthday, TAG Heuer’s Hyperlink collection returns with a new appear, far more noticeably a bigger diameter. Back in 2015, TAG Heuer unveiled the Carrera 01, setting a whole new direction for the famous line of racing chronographs. The Carrera Heuer-01 is big, it’s a little brash, and […]
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