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Wrist Check: The Louis Vuitton Tambour, Steel On Steel

Wrist Check: The Louis Vuitton Tambour, Steel On Steel

Sleek, steel, and stealthily sophisticated. When Louis Vuitton launched the latest Tambour watch earlier this year, it represented a majo...

The Vacheron Constantin Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra Thin Skeleton

The Vacheron Constantin Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra Thin Skeleto...

A perpetual calendar that’s an aristocrat among its peers. Innovation can be a wonderful thing. It can bring us untold practical an...

Introducing The Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar In Platinum

Introducing The Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar In Platinum

The Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar’s movement is one of the most ingenious Lange has ever made. The Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar is not t...

The De Bethune DB25 Starry Varius Aérolite Tourbillon, With Meteorite Dial

The De Bethune DB25 Starry Varius Aérolite Tourbillon, With Meteorite ...

The dial of this masterpiece from De Bethune has been on a billion year journey to your wrist. Every watch dial tells a story, but some t...

Why Audemars Piguet’s New Jumbo Extra-Thin Has A Glass Bezel

Why Audemars Piguet’s New Jumbo Extra-Thin Has A Glass Bezel

Metallic glass may be the ideal material for one of the biggest scratch magnets in watchmaking. If you have ever owned, or know anyone wh...

Hands On With The 41 Day Haute Rive Honoris I

Hands On With The 41 Day Haute Rive Honoris I

A thousand hours of power in a surprisingly wearable case. One of the watches I was most excited to see at Geneva Watch Days was the firs...

Freddie Mercury’s Plastic Seiko Hits £15k at Auction

Freddie Mercury’s Plastic Seiko Hits £15k at Auction

And there’s still 48 hours to go… If reports are to be believed, Apple — who, as much as we may not like to recognize or admi...

Geneva Watch Days: The URWERK Space Time Blade

Geneva Watch Days: The URWERK Space Time Blade

A Nixie tube-lit cutting edge spacetime clock. If you bet on there being some unusual and even outlandish watches at Only Watch you are a...

The F. P. Journe Vagabondage II

The F. P. Journe Vagabondage II

A rare jumping time display in an even rarer watch. When you think of F. P. Journe, you probably think of a watch with a round case and w...

Geneva Watch Days: Is Bigger Better?

Geneva Watch Days: Is Bigger Better?

The biggest ever edition of Geneva Watch Days may be the shape of things to come. It was not all that long ago that the tradition of mult...

Rexhep Rexhepi for Only Watch 2023

Rexhep Rexhepi for Only Watch 2023

The Akrivia founder unveils his third Only Watch submission. Few watchmakers have garnered as much attention in recent years as Rexhep Re...

Stop Wearing Stainless Steel

Stop Wearing Stainless Steel

As the end of summer approaches, allow me to offer some belated advice. This summer has been, in a word, hot. Very, very hot. In fact, it...

Introducing The 1000 Hour Honoris I, From Haute Rive

Introducing The 1000 Hour Honoris I, From Haute Rive

Ulysse Nardin’s former Research and Innovation Director launches his first (amazing) watch. Stéphane von Gunten’s name is not...

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar In Titanium

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar In Titanium

Certain complications become identified with particular brands for a reason. Of the great classic watch brands in Switzerland, probably t...

Introducing The Grand Seiko ‘Katana’ US Exclusive Spring Drives

Introducing The Grand Seiko ‘Katana’ US Exclusive Spring D...

An ode to the alchemy of steel. The first time I visited Japan, it was on a trip organized by Grand Seiko for press just after the brand ...

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Limited Addiction: The Best of Limited Editions

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Limited Addiction: The Best of Limited Editions

Let’s face it, acquiring a watch that only a select few others will own is always an appealing proposition. We live in an industry satura...

8 Things to Know About IWC

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8 Things to Know About IWC

There’s a lot we all know about the beloved International Watch Company. Famed for their iconic pilot’s watch collection, the longstandin...

Diving Deeper: Dive Watches For the Record Books

Diving Deeper: Dive Watches For the Record Books

When it comes to dive watches, depth rating is always a talking point. Though recreational divers never breach the 100m mark, every dive ...

The Power of Necessity | Innovation in Watchmaking

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The Power of Necessity | Innovation in Watchmaking

As the world remains at home, we are forced to come together—remotely, of course—to find a new way to work and solve novel problems. The ...