Speake-Marin create The Rum Watch which containing a drop of the “oldest rum in the world”. Described as a combination of Swiss precision and the spirit of the Caribbean, the watch holds 1780 Harewood Rum inside an alcohol capsule on the dial. The rum itself was discovered in England in 2011, when Mark Lascelles, the […]
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Ulysse Nardin presents the new FreakWing for Artemis Racing team in the America’s Cup, dedicated to the high-tech AC45 catamaran. This watch is inspired by the internal structure of the rigid sail, while the texture of the rotating hours disc evokes the mesh net of the multihull. The bezel and case back are forged from […]
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From cameras to cars, the West has often looked to the Land of the Rising Sun for technological innovation. And Japan’s mammoth watchmaking industry is no exception. While Swiss watchmaking has built its name on heritage, skills honed over generations and jaw-dropping aesthetics above all else, Japan’s watch industry focuses on life-enhancing function more than […]
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The term ‘affordable’ has a very different meaning in the world of haute horlogerie (that’s French for ‘very well-made and usually quite expensive watches’). The brands that sit by Lake Geneva aren’t au fait with three-for-a-tenner deals; these are watches that individual craftsmen take weeks to make. Six figure price tags are not uncommon. But […]
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The Jaeger-LeCoultre Duomètre Quantième Lunaire White Gold is a refined but also unique watch, it reveals part of the watch’s movement to stand out in the haute horology world. Aside from the semi-open dial now being offered in 18k white gold for the Duomètre Quantième Lunaire model, there is a slightly revised dial for the […]
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I wear the Richard Mille RM 011 Felipe Massa Black Night NTPT Carbon watch every day while reviewing it over these past couple of weeks – much as how one would spend every last moment driving that convertible supercar parked in front of the house if finally given the chance… The irresistible force of sheer […]
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Jacob & Co. introduced a brand-new version of the crowd-pleasing Astronomia mega-watch at Baselworld 2016, this complicated watch named after Jacob & Co. Astronomia Sky Celestial Panorama Gravitational Triple Axis Tourbillon. Down from the 50mm-wide size of the standard Astronomia, the Jacob & Co. Astronomia Sky is “just” 47mm wide and 25mm thick. No one […]
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The Breguet Classique Hora Mundi ref. 5727 case with comes to classical design, a watch easy to use world timer in terms of functionality and one of our all time favorites. This time, instead of featuring a highly elaborated engraving representing land masses of the Americas, the European and African continents, or Asia and Oceania with […]
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Dior has unveiled some watches at this year’s Baselworld. These Dior watches are colorful, elegant for ladies. Ever so colourful, the Dior VIII Grand Bal family is continously growing and this year welcomes four new additions: Dior VIII Grand Bal Cancan, Dior VIII Grand Bal Coquette, Dior VIII Grand Bal Pièce Unique Ondine and Dior […]
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lately, Panerai presented the Radiomir 1940 Minute Repeater Carillon Tourbillon GMT. This watch case with the unusual combination of a decimal repeater – and the ability to chime the time for two different time zones. This remarkable feature can be activated by an ingenious design that works by slightly rotating the crown until a black […]
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