Snyper even makes diamonds seem tough and macho. Their Ironclad chronograph is massive, 53 mm in diameter, in stainless steel, and it has a bezel set with 48 diamonds, either black or white. In the case of black diamonds, the case has a black PVD finish. The watch has the brand’s trademark bars on the…
This piece by Frédérique Constant could be a nice chronograph at a relatively accessible price, €2,850, attractive for its uncluttered dial. It is a tribute to vintage motor sports with its perforated leather strap and the Healey logo below the central pivot, celebrating the NOJ 393 Healey racing car. The racing green on the two…
The chronograph watch is one of the most popular categories of timepieces. This selection is of course subjective and based on what I’ve managed to review over the course of the year, and it is designed to provide an overview of chronograph watches and their price range. The watches are presented in price order, from…
One of the things that I admire about Patek Philippe is what they don’t do. They don’t make metiers d’art watches with paintings on the dial. They don’t make weird and strange complications. They don’t make watches with monkeys (or buffalo or dragons) on the dial. In short, they are never running after the market.…
Italian brand Locman is moving upwards. Their new Montecristo Rattrapante is their most sophisticated watch produced to date, a limited edition of 100 pieces. In this piece, starting the chronograph sets the white chronograph second hand moving, along with the red hand that is exactly underneath, so that they are moving together. When you press…
This chronograph by Tissot is part of the Chemin des Tourelles series of very classical watches, which includes a wide range of variants for men and women. While the men’s three-hand watches start at about €760, this chronograph is attractively priced at €1,130. The name of the series, Chemin des Tourelles, comes from the company’s…
The holes in the strap of this watch by Tissot create a link to early motor racing, when steering wheels had holes in the spokes. This model has some nice details, such as the pushers resembling pistons, with red trim, and floating indices so that the chronograph seconds and the minutes hands pass underneath them.…
This chronograph by Tissot is all about motor sports, and it even comes in a helmet-shaped box that includes a winder. It’s a limited edition of 3,333 pieces, and no doubt it will appeal to young motorcyclists who can relate to the bezel suggesting brake discs, the pushers like motorbike footrests, a tyre tread design…
This chronograph by Mido is interesting, it has something of the IWC looks with its 316L stainless steel case, satin-finish sunray blue dial with touches of red on hands and subdials, circular guilloand the narrow bezel. The chronograph dial design doesn’t mess about with things like quarter-seconds or fifths of seconds, but in real life,…
This new chronograph by Rado should be in boutiques ready for the Christmas 2015 season. Its chocolate brown colour is attained through the brand’s mastery of high-tech ceramics, and it joins the other colours previously available for HyperChrome, the original black, then white, grey, and the metallic finish of plasma ceramic. The brown colour is…
This watch by Montblanc is the second, more prestigious watch in the new 1858 Collection presented at SIAR, Salón Internacional Alta Relojería, Mexico City, on 20 October 2015. It is a direct reference to the Minerva tradition, 1858 being the year of foundation of the watch company that Richemont Group purchased in 2006 and allocated…
It’s a quartz watch by Richard Mille, but not the sort of quartz watch disparaged by lovers of mechanical timepieces. In this instance the quartz is part of a new composite material used for the case, a combination of NTPT carbon and TPT quartz with an intense red colour produced by the red resin used…
The story of Omega and NASA is common knowledge, but there was another watch that went into space and was used on the moon. Dave Scott, commander of the Apollo 15 mission, took his own Bulova Chronograph with him as a back-up for the NASA-issue Omega Speedmaster, and used it during his extra-vehicular activities on…
This watch was developed from the Tutima Military Chronograph, also known as the NATO, reference 798, introduced in 1984, a chronograph with centre-sweep chronograph seconds and minutes hands, and the unusual feature, for a watch of this type, of the day as well as the date. The NATO had a Lemania 5100 movement, a calibre…
Longines are very active in the world of showjumping, and this watch was made specially to time the performance of a horse and rider in a showjumping competition. Its major characteristic is that it can measure lengths of time to the nearest one-hundredth of a second, by means of a quartz movement, which enables the…
All-black. Murdered-out. Blacked out. Black PVD-coated. Carbon fibre. DLC. Batman’s favourite colour. There’s no doubt that all-black watches are still very much in fashion, even though in terms of legibility they are inherently impractical. Who cares, all they have to do is look good. An all-black watch was an obvious choice for Jeanrichard, the brand…
Histoire de Tourbillon is one of the most technical watch series by Harry Winston, and it may continue even beyond this piece, number 6 in the series. The other Harry Winston series that intrigues watch-lovers all over the world, Opus, will possibly see the latest Opus 14 launched before the end of the year (as…
The Breguet Tradition Indépendant Chronograph was undoubtedly one of the highlights of Baselworld 2015, an innovative piece in which the chronograph function is kept completely separate from the time functions by means of two movements, each with its own balance wheel, and separate power sources. The time functions are powered by a conventional mainspring barrel…
The Project Z9 by Harry Winston belongs to the Project Z series of watches (in turn part of the Ocean collection), all technical and sporty, with certain instantly recognizable features such as the case in Zalium, a proprietary alloy of aluminium and zirconium, the three arches that in this piece are at the crown,…
Presented this year (2015), the Harry Winston Ocean Chronograph Automatic 36mm is an unusual combination, both a jewellery watch, while also being a chronograph with mechanical movement, with a strap and water resistance approaching diving watch status. At first glance, it presents the features that mark a prestige women’s watch: fairly small, rose gold case,…