Top 10 big date watches 2018
The big date complication makes the date easier to see at a glance. There are not many watches of this type in production. This article lists 12 examples in increasing price order.
Time is life – Peter Speake-Marin on Stoic World
An interview with Peter Speake-Marin on his new brand Stoic World, which has presented three watches hallmarked by good design and affordable prices.
Top 10 new pilot’s watches 2018
Here is a selection of some of the most interesting new pilot’s watches launched for 2018. They are in ascending price order.
Stoic World pilot’s watch by Peter Speake-Marin
Stoic World is a new project by Peter Speake-Marin, and one of its first watches is this classic pilot’s watch, with a self-winding Seiko movement, and a 38 mm case with a 100-metre water resistance rating. All at an affordable price: $390.
Gareth Southgate and his watch at the World Cup
We know that Gareth Southgate is having a considerable effect on waistcoat sales in the UK – up 35%, say Marks & Spencer, official suppliers to the England team. His sharply-styled navy blue suit, worn with just the waistcoat over a light blue shirt and a regimental tie in the England colours – has made…
Watches and sex
What do watches have in common with sex? A semi-serious look at the different levels of watch sexiness, from the virtuous modesty of Rolex to the full-frontal nudity of Roger Dubuis.
Top ten hand-wound watches under €1,500
A mechanical watch is a throwback to a different age, the age before electronics, when watchmakers were engaged in the struggle to turn a heap of metal into a machine that would vibrate at a constant frequency whatever the position, temperature and circumstances. Today a mechanical watch is itself a distinctive product. Even more so…
Mansfield Time Automatica One
Mansfield Time, a young kickstarter company, makes a very eye-catching, large men’s watch named Automatica One, 43 mm in diameter with stainless steel case, which combines several themes. It has diving-watch water resistance, 200 metres, but its looks are those of a pilot’s watch. There is a lot of IWC, with the stubby sword-type hands,…
Interview with Pierre Berthet, CEO of Berthet
Berthet, French watchmaking company founded in 1888, celebrates its 130th anniversary this year. In addition to making its own watches, it supplies components to many other watch brands. The characteristics of its timepieces – hand-wound movements, original complications, in-house skeletonization, affordable prices – make Berthet a distinctive brand with a powerful identity. We had the…
Corum Big Magical Bubble Djibril Cissé
Bubble is an important part of Corum‘s heritage and every year many new versions of this watch are issued. With their big domed sapphire watchglass, they are always large and bold. With a 52 mm case, over 20 mm thick, it’s not the discreet dress watch that slides under your shirt. More than most, it’s…
Cartier Révélation d’une Panthère
One of the absolute highlights of SIHH – and the entire world of watchmaking – in 2018, Révélation d’une Panthère by Cartier is not so much a watch as a performance. Above the hands and the dial, instead of the usual sapphire watchglass, there is a flat sapphire capsule containing 900 tiny gold beads, in…
The new Santos by Cartier
Santos was the first pilot’s watch, possibly the first watch with a square case, the first watch with exposed screws on the bezel, and the first watch to have a leather strap.
Louis Erard Heritage Classic Chronograph
The new Heritage Classic Chronograph watches by Louis Erard are exactly what their name says: classic chronographs. This family of watches has a sober, discreet design, with two subdials for the chronograph minutes and hours, and the choice of no running seconds, or a cross-form subdial for running seconds at 9 o’clock. The dial is…
Bulova Aerojet 98A187
The Bulova Aerojet 98A187 was recently advertised with a full-page ad in an Italian newspaper, with the price displayed as €279. It shows that price is no longer a massive problem for people looking for an automatic watch: it’s affordable for most, and from a big brand. The new Aerojet 98A187 is based on a…
Berthet company profile
Company profile: Berthet was founded by Joseph Berthet, son of a teacher, born in Savoie. He learnt watchmaking in Switzerland over the course of about 12 years before returning to Charmauvillers, close to the Swiss border, in 1877, setting up his own watchmaking workshop in 1888. He was joined by his brother and his three…
Berthet Orbis Régulateur
The Orbis Régulateur H43 by Berthet is a 43 mm watch with a hand-wound movement, modified in-house to provide the regulator function.
Berthet Agilis reference H43RETRO with retrograde minutes
The Agilis by Berthet is based on a classic hand-wound movement that is modified in-house to create the retrograde minutes display at the top of the dial. Berthet perform an operation similar to that performed by Vincent Calabrese with his company Nouvelle Horlogerie Calabrese: they use standard ETA/Unitas movements and modify them to do something…
Berthet Vintage Aviateur H46
The watch named Vintage, reference H46, by Berthet is in the early aviator style, with large luminescent Art Deco style numerals, a hand-wound movement, and an attractive price.
Berthet Arte Noir Skeleton watch
Arte Noir by Berthet is a skeleton watch, 42.5 mm in diameter and 11.9 mm thick, with a hand-wound 6498 movement that is skeletonized in-house, to a design by house engineers Gérard and William Berthet. The watchmakers use a range of techniques to remove parts of the bridges, including CNC micro-machining, laser cutting and micro-cutting…
TW Steel Ace Spitfire
The Ace Spitfire is a new collection by Dutch brand TW Steel. It is a chronograph with the brand’s usual big and bold design style, and a Sellita SW510 movement.
Top five dress watches under €2,000
What is a dress watch? A watch that can be worn with a dinner jacket or other formal wear. Today, celebrities do what they like with the classic black tie format, but the rules still exist, and you can look good even with a suit that complies with the most rigorous standards. It’s as if…