Introducing: The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar Now In A Full...
I'm calling it right here and right now, this is the hottest watch of SIHH 2017. I'm not saying it's the best, or the most innovative, or even the most universally loved, but it'll be the hottest,...
View ArticleHands-On: The Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda Métropolitane Sélène
Let me introduce you to the Tonda Métropolitane Sélène. It's an automatic ladies’ piece by Parmigiani Fleurier that was released almost a year ago. I was finally able to spend some time with this...
View ArticleIntroducing: The Greubel Forsey Signature 1 Now In Platinum – Is This The...
It was this week last year that Greubel Forsey, makers of arguably the most high-end watches on planet earth, made their most low-end watch. But their most low-end watch turned out to be, in fact, the...
View ArticleHow To Follow HODINKEE At SIHH 2017 (We've Got Lots Of Awesome Stuff Coming...
It's almost here. SIHH 2017. Monday starts one of the biggest weeks in watches for the entire year, with 30 brands from Audemars Piguet to Vacheron Constantin and Christophe Claret to Urwerk showing...
View ArticleIntroducing: The Montblanc TimeWalker Chronograph UTC
Montblanc is revamping the TimeWalker collection this year, and as a part of the reimagined collection has released the TimeWalker Chronograph UTC. The new chronograph is a welcome addition to the...
View ArticleIntroducing: The New Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph, An Update On A...
We sensed something special would be coming from Le Brassus this year, but we were a little unsure about the exact model, since there are a number of Royal Oak–related anniversaries this year. What we...
View ArticleIntroducing: The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Extra-Thin And Royal...
Watchmakers regularly introduce existing watches in new colors and new metals. Sometimes this feels like incremental news, and sometimes it feels like you're getting a whole new watch. These two...
View ArticleIntroducing: The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Extra-Thin Openworked,...
The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Extra Thin Openworked first debuted at the 2012 SIHH in platinum, and at the 2016 SIHH HODINKEE's Cara Barrett introduced us to the yellow gold version. This...
View ArticleIntroducing: The Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 24 Secondes Vision In Platinum,...
All of the novelties we are about to see at the Palexpo this week take roughly the same amount of space inside the exhibition hall, but some of the watches will have a little more presence than...
View ArticleIntroducing: The Vacheron Constantin Les Cabinotiers Celestia Astronomical...
Very big news last year, in every possible sense of the word, was Vacheron Constantin's launch of the ref. 57260 pocket watch, the most complicated watch in the world. It had myriad complications,...
View ArticleIntroducing: The Vacheron Constantin Les Cabinotiers Symphonia Grande...
It might seem strange to you that despite its very long history as a maker of very complicated watches (including last year's supercomplicated pocket watch, the ref. 57260) Vacheron Constantin has...
View ArticleIntroducing: The Vacheron Constantin Copernic 'Celestial Spheres' Metiers d'Art
Vacheron Constantin is one of the rare manufactures to have its own true in-house Métiers d’Art department with experts in a variety of crafts like engraving, gem-setting, and enameling. But...
View ArticleIntroducing: The Audemars Piguet Diamond Outrage (Yes, Really)
When you hear "Audemars Piguet," you likely think of a Royal Oak. Or maybe a vintage minute repeater. What you probably don't think about is a diamond-encrusted spikey thing that somehow fits on a...
View ArticleIntroducing: The A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk Decimal Strike, The Third Chiming...
The Zeitwerk family of watches is one of Lange's most distinctive, even if perhaps it's not as truly iconic as the Lange 1. Two chiming versions have been produced: the Zeitwerk Striking Time, which...
View ArticleIntroducing: The A. Lange & Söhne Little Lange 1 In Pink Gold With A...
The A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 is kind of a cult favorite (at least of the cult I am in), so I am pretty excited to announce the new pink gold Little Lange 1 with a guilloché dial. Last year, we saw...
View ArticleIntroducing: The A. Lange & Söhne Tourbograph Perpetual 'Pour Le Mérite,' The...
The A. Lange & Söhne "Pour le Mérite" watches go way back with the modern incarnation of A. Lange & Söhne; the very first was the Tourbillon "Pour le Mérite," which at the time of its...
View ArticleIntroducing: The MB&F HM7 Aquapod, The First Aquatic Horological Machine
MB&F launched the first Horological Machine in 2007, positioning itself as an independent watchmaker primarily interesting in futuristic design. Ten years and eight Horological Machines later,...
View ArticleIntroducing: The A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Annual Calendar
The annual calendar is an interesting complication for A. Lange & Söhne. It is both greatly respected by Lange aficionados and yet it hasn't seemed a huge priority for the manufacture itself over...
View ArticleIntroducing: The Baume & Mercier Clifton Club, A New Collection Of Dive Watches
Baume & Mercier has just released a new collection of sports watches for the "gentlesportsmen" of the world. I give to you the Clifton Club. The Clifton Club is a nice addition to one of the more...
View ArticleIntroducing: The F.P. Journe Vagabondage III, The World's First Mechanical...
The F.P. Journe Vagabondage III is the third in Journe's series of tortue-case shaped jumping time Vagabondage watches, and it's the most exposed, with much of the mechanism for advancing the time...
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