At the moment, the new range of watches by Trussardi includes just one mechanical watch (the chronograph on the left in this photo), with all the others powered by quartz movements. The watches are the result of a deal between fashion brand Trussardi and the Morellato group, the latter a company based near Padua, Italy,…
In my experience, one of the practical problems with many conventional chronographs – the ones with two or three subdials for minutes and hours, which often end up looking a bit like a gas meter – is that they are often partly obscured by the minute or hour hand. These hands are usually much larger…
This post on the best day-date watches 2014 looks at one of the most universal and practical types of watches, with just time indications, plus the date, and the day written in full at the top of the dial in a segment-circular window. All the essential information, shown clearly and legibly. There aren’t all that…
This is an idea that you would have expected from Swarovski, a watch with a sapphire crystal cut so that the sides of the watchglass resemble a gemstone, but in fact it was thought up by Dolce & Gabbana. The case in pink gold, 24 x 24 mm, is also faceted, and likewise the crown,…
This watch has a case design dating back to 1945, but its style looks back even further to the Art Deco period. It has now been released in a new version with sapphire dial that provides a look into the in-house GP 03300-0105/0062 movement. The neat function is the jumping date, with two wheels that…
Actually not twenty, but a few more: how can you resist adding as many as possible of these incredible machines! A tourbillon is one of those watch categories that separates the sheep from the goats. It’s not a third-party movement that you can buy from a manufacturer and assemble into your own case. And its so…
The Opéra is a watch by Saint Honoré, a women’s watch in two sizes, 33 and 37 mm, with mother of pearl dial set with six diamonds, stainless steel case, and a quartz movement. In the Opéra “Piano Edition” launched at Baselworld 2014, it has a feature that I think is a good idea and…
This watch is an indication of the increasing attention dedicated to mechanical movements with complications for women. In fact, the Rendez-Vous Ivy Minute Repeater is the first minute repeater in Jaeger-LeCoultre’s collection for women, and it was was presented at a “sound lab” at SalonQP in London, 6-8 November, in which customers were introduced to…
Vacheron Constantin continue their 12-year journey through the Chinese zodiac with this watch dedicated to the year of the goat, which begins on 19 February 2015. This limited edition is available in two variants, pink gold and platinum, with 12 pieces for each. So definitely a piece for Chinese collectors, presumably with a price tag…
I was excited when I saw news about the Longines Conquest 1/100th Horse Racing, a chronograph with a hand that indicates elapsed time to the nearest one-hundredth of a second. Then I saw that it’s a watch with a quartz movement and I was less excited, but even so, it’s a piece with an attractive function, designed…
It’s something that’s been seen before in fashion, the idea of coordinated garments for him and her that reinforce the “couple” idea. Shanghai Tang, for example, in the image below, have done it with subtlety, so that they are not exactly matching, but complementary. A.Lange & Söhne are doing it in watches. The Lange 1…
Van Cleef & Arpels turned their gaze upwards, towards the planets and the sun, with their Midnight Planétarium, and with another piece, they continue their voyage of what they describe as “Poetic Astronomy.” The Lady Arpels Heures Filantes is a 38-mm watch in white gold, with a circular section on the front of the dial…
It’s not surprising that watches appear in a lot of films. They are accessories that we use in everyday life and so in films they sometimes play a significant role. Just think, for example, of Apollo 13, and the Omega Speedmaster used by the astronauts during their journey home. Or Drive, in which Ryan Gosling…
With their latest model in the Pilot’s Watch family, IWC Schaffhausen continue their series of watches that are tributes to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The Big Pilot’s Watch Edition “Le Petit Prince,” reference IW500908, confirms IWC’s status as one of the few high-end brands still making watches that recall the German wartime B-Uhr watches that have…
The Tonda 1950 Squelette by Parmigiani Fleurier is interesting because the same watch is made in two different versions for men and women. The men’s version has a completely transparent dial, revealing the skeletonized movement and even enabling the rotor on the back to be glimpsed, while the women’s version has a frosted dial so…
It’s outlandish, different, intriguing, magnetic. Maximilian Büsser describes the initial idea for the Horological Machine No. 6 Space Pirate, a spaceship from a Japanese manga TV series called Captain Future, in the form of a large sphere with a long connecting tube, and four arms. He and his team combined this with influence from the…
I am always interested in new functions for watches, and so was intrigued to come across this piece, the Reconvilier Hercules Golf Master. It looks like a normal watch, 44 mm in diameter, albeit a bit thicker than most, with an automatic movement providing hours, minutes and seconds. But it hides a transformation: the watch…
I would say that Ferrari is definitely a luxury brand, and so I was puzzled when I received an email with the latest Scuderia Ferrari watches. No problem with brand extension as such, but I find it hard to understand why such a brand links its name to a whole series of watches that look,…
For those who like watches with more than just the date, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Calendar and the Montblanc Star Quantième Complet could be an interesting choice. They fill the gap between watches with just a date window and perpetual calendar watches that start at a much higher price. Both these models have the date shown…
This piece won the prize in the Ladies’ Watch category of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG), for which the results were announced on 30 November 2014. Personally I think it is a lovely piece and a good choice on the part of the GPHG Jury. In terms of appearance, it blends sophistication with…