High Beat, Deep Waters: The New Defy Extreme Diver Puts Zenith Back In The Dive Watch Business
High Beat, Deep Waters: The New Defy Extreme Diver Puts Zenith Back In...

I have always felt that if you are going to call something “Defy Extreme” it should ideally defy something, and preferably in...

The New Patek Golden Ellipse 5738/1R Brings Back A Classic Gold On Gold Configuration
The New Patek Golden Ellipse 5738/1R Brings Back A Classic Gold On Gol...

The Golden Ellipse is an enduring classic, but the addition of an updated chain bracelet brings its past alive. Patek Philippe introduced...

Grand Seiko Debuts New Hand Wound Hi-Beat Caliber In SLGW002 And SLGW003 With White Birch Dials
Grand Seiko Debuts New Hand Wound Hi-Beat Caliber In SLGW002 And SLGW0...

The caliber 9SA4 is Grand Seiko’s first hand wound Hi-Beat movement in over 50 years. Grand Seiko has always been known to enthusia...

Back(wards) To The Future: The Method To The Madness Of The Cartier Santos Dumont Rewind
Back(wards) To The Future: The Method To The Madness Of The Cartier Sa...

There’s more than meets the eye to running time in reverse. There is always a certain amount of controversy associated with the int...

Imperial Hue: De Bethune Introduces The DB28XS Purple Rain
Imperial Hue: De Bethune Introduces The DB28XS Purple Rain

The latest De Bethune celebrates a color with a royal heritage. If you are of a certain age and background, and I am, when you hear the w...

Good As Gold: The Tudor Black Bay 58 GMT
Good As Gold: The Tudor Black Bay 58 GMT

Thoughts on why the GMT is mechanical watchmaking at its best – and why Tudor’s becoming the complication’s flight leader. Th...

Million Year Moon: The IWC Portugieser Eternal Calendar
Million Year Moon: The IWC Portugieser Eternal Calendar

A new addition to the small family of secular perpetual calendars has a moonphase display accurate to one day in 45 million years. Trade ...

Return Of The King: The Bulgari Octo Finissimo Ultra COSC
Return Of The King: The Bulgari Octo Finissimo Ultra COSC

Bulgari takes back the world’s record for the world’s thinnest mechanical watch – and it’s a certified chronometer. Bac...

Introducing The De Bethune DB Kind Of Grande Complication
Introducing The De Bethune DB Kind Of Grande Complication

Being two-faced has never looked so good. There are many examples over the years of De Bethune’s ability to think outside the box, ...

One Rattrapante To Rule Them All: The A. Lange & Söhne Triple Split
One Rattrapante To Rule Them All: The A. Lange & Söhne Triple Spl...

The rattrapante chronograph assumes its ultimate form. There are three complications – call them the Big Three – which are considered mor...

A Look Under The Hood: The Calendar Complication Of The Parmigiani Fleurier Hijiri Perpetual Calendar
A Look Under The Hood: The Calendar Complication Of The Parmigiani Fle...

A world of hidden beauty is underneath the dial. One of the most interesting calendar watches currently produced by any brand, is the Par...

F.P. Journe Complications: The Chronomètre À Résonance, How And Why It Works
F.P. Journe Complications: The Chronomètre À Résonance, How And Why It...

One of Journe’s most famous complications is also one of his most mysterious. The problem of creating what F.P. Journe calls a reso...

100 Years Of CITIZEN: The Latest Watch From A Technical  Powerhouse Is An Old School Pocket Watch
100 Years Of CITIZEN: The Latest Watch From A Technical Powerhouse Is...

An homage to the past, and a window to the future, and a very rare example of a modern, high grade pocket watch. Citizen is celebrating a...

Design Revolution: The De Bethune DBSPS5 Moonphase
Design Revolution: The De Bethune DBSPS5 Moonphase

A radical rethinking of the wristwatch is now a modern classic. It is I suppose the fate of all revolutions in art to become, if theyR...

Pure Moon: The Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda ‘Hijiri’ Perpetual Lunar Calendar
Pure Moon: The Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda ‘Hijiri’ Perpetua...

A wristwatch-wearable perpetual Islamic calendar, based on the phases of the Moon. The ubiquity of the Gregorian calendar in civil timeke...

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