MB&F HM4 Kittyhawk
Maximilian Büsser and his MB&F celebrate the 10th anniversary of Horological Machine N° 4 with a one-off piece named HM4 Kittyhawk.
IWC Schaffhausen Big Pilot’s Watch Big Date Edition 150 Years
As part of the celebrations for the brand’s 150th anniversary, IWC have done something rather unusual. They have given the classic pilots watch a big date display. Pilots watch purists probably won’t like this. A pilot’s watch should have just hour and minute hands, a central second-hand, Arabic numerals and virtually nothing else on the…
Zeppelin 7060-4 GMT Power Reserve
The Zeppelin 7060-4, part of the LZ 129 Hindenburg Ed. 1 series, is an unusual watch, with classical looks and enough quirkiness to set it apart from most others. In addition, it has an interesting price, by virtue of the Japanese-made self-winding Miyota movement. Dial design Where you would normally see the numeral 12, there…
Beauty fuel by Vincent Calabrese / NHC
Vincent Calabrese is a watchmaker who can create movements in the shape of letters, starting from the straight line of his classic Golden Bridge, to the Cs, Hs, Ys and so forth of his spatial watches (read more about Calabrese and his company NHC here). So it comes as no surprise to find that he…
Grand Seiko Spring Drive 8-Day Power Reserve
The Grand Seiko Spring Drive 8-Day Power Reserve is a beautiful watch with Seiko’s innovative spring drive system, three mainspring barrels providing an eight-day power reserve, and superb finish by Seiko’s highest-end manufacturing unit, the Micro Artist Studio. It was introduced in 2016 as an 8-piece limited edition in platinum, and then in rose gold…
Top ten power reserve indicator watches
In some watches, a notable feature on the dial is the power reserve indicator. This is a useful feature in the case of a hand-wound movement, but it is increasingly appearing on automatic watches, where it can be helpful as a reminder to put the watch on, or wind it, if you’ve left it in…
Rado DiaMaster Power Reserve
The DiaMaster Power Reserve by Rado is distinctive for the power reserve display on the dial. The case is in high-tech ceramic, which has a very high scratch resistance, five times higher than a comparable stainless steel. It is also 25% lighter than steel. The watch is fairly large at 43 mm, 12.3 mm thick,…
NOMOS Glashütte Lambda 42mm
Wow, I fell in love with this as soon as I saw it. The NOMOS Glashütte Lambda 42mm is one of the piece currently featured on the men’s style website Mr Porter, which has recently launched a selection of Nomos Glashütte watches. With a rose gold case, it is higher-end than most of the brand’s…
Limes Pharo Big Date with Power Reserve
German brand Limes makes some watches that have something of Breguet’s looks, but in a very different – much lower – price range. The brand’s Pharo collection includes the Big Date with Power Reserve, now back with a new design. The Breguet looks come from the Roman numerals, the silver-colour dial with different types of…
Carl F. Bucherer Manero PowerReserve
This year, Carl F. Bucherer have introduced two new limited-edition versions of the Manero PowerReserve, with blue and green dials. The Manero PowerReserve was first presented in 2013, in the classical colour schemes, silver and black. The two new blue and green pieces are enhanced by the leather straps in colours matching the dials, and…
A. Lange & Söhne Lange 31
In 2007, when it was introduced, the Lange 31 was the world record holder for power reserve in a mechanical watch, reaching 31 days, 744 hours. Since then, other watches have exceeded this, but the Lange 31 is still the watch with a classic case design having the highest power reserve. It’s large, 46 mm…
Bulgari Octo Finissimo Skeleton
The Octo Finissimo Skeleton by Bulgari is slim and modern, with its sleek black movement finished in black DLC and rich in contrasts provided by steel, gold and rubies. The hand-wound BVL 128SK movement is just 2.35 mm thick, hand wound, with seconds, minutes and hours, and power reserve indicator. This is a useful indication…
The power kings – watches with high power reserve
Power reserve is important in two ways. In a self-winding watch, when you’re wearing it, you don’t need a long power reserve because you’re constantly winding it with your own movements, and even the minimum power reserve of 38 hours is plenty enough to keep it going when you take the watch off to go…
Emporio Armani Swiss Made ARS3200 Limited Edition
When high street fashion brands diversify into watches, they are generally quartz pieces, as in the case of brands such as Tory Burch and Michael Kors, even Versace, but some brands are showing interest in mechanical watches. An important player in this area is Fossil Group, an American company who make watches for a wide…
Mühle-Glashütte Robert Mühle Zeigerdatum
Glashütte is a small German town with a large number of watch manufacturers working independently one from another, but bound together by the town’s turbulent history. Their shared DNA can often be seen in certain design characteristics that go beyond just the words “Glashütte” and “Made in Germany,” and lots of umlauts. The Robert Mühle…
IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Spitfire IW500917
The IW500917 is the luxury version of the Big Pilot’s Watch IW500912, IWC’s interpretation of the Type A B-Uhr watch. The 46mm case is in red gold, and likewise hands, conical crown and back. The watch is powered by the in-house 51111 calibre, running at 21,600 vibrations per hour, 3 Hertz. Power reserve is over…
IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Edition Le Petit Prince IW500916
The IWC IW500916 is one of the versions of the IWC Big Pilot’s Watch IW500912, the brand’s classic pilot’s watch with in-house movement. It has a double-riveted strap by Santoni, a conical screw-in crown, and a dial with the blue colour hallmarking Petit Prince models. The case size has been reduced from 48 to 46…
IWC Big Pilot’s Watch IW500912
This is perhaps the closest (along with the Pilot’s Watch Mark XVIII) that IWC gets to the Type A B-Uhr watch in their pilot’s watch collection launched in January 2016. It has a double-riveted strap by Santoni, a conical screw-in crown, and a simple dial design with just date and power reserve subdial added to…
Parmigiani presents the Senfine movement – two months power reserve
Watchmaking brand Parmigiani Fleurier revealed that it is working on a new watch movement that could produce a revolution in the mechanical watch industry. Normally a mechanical watch has a power reserve – the time that the watch will keep running from when its mainspring is fully wound – of about 40 hours, with some,…
Cartier Panthères et Colibri
This watch, one of Cartier’s new pieces to be introduced at SIHH later this month (January 2016) shows that there is still plenty of room to invent new functions and new styles of display, as long as you have the capability of designing your own movement. This is a watch for women by Cartier, and…