Vacheron Constantin has gone big on retrograde displays this year, with no fewer than three novelties featuring this charming technical complication. If anyone knows retrograde displays, it’s the grand dame of watchmaking. It is thought that the earliest Vacheron Constantin wristwatch with a retrograde hand was from 1940, the ‘Don Pancho’, which achieved the second [...]

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‘Tis the season for retrograde date displays here at Vacheron Constantin, a functionality that has been in the family since the 1920s. This year, no fewer than three new models were introduced at Watches & Wonders celebrating the spritely complication, one of which was the Traditionnelle Tourbillon Retrograde Date Openface. Review: VC Traditionnelle Tourbillon Retrograde [...]

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‘Tis the year for the retrograde display here at Vacheron Constantin. The grand dame of watchmaking has released no fewer than three models with the mechanism at Watches & Wonders 2023. The first model is the Traditionnelle Tourbillon Retrograde Date Openface, the most complicated of the lot. The next one is the Patrimony Retrograde Day-Date [...]

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Calendar complications and timepieces have been synonymous since the bygone era of pocket watches. These complications include the basic date and the sophisticated perpetual calendar. There are also those of middling complexity, the most recently invented of which is the annual calendar. Officially making its mark in the world of watchmaking in 1996, the annual [...]

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The limited edition Harry Winston Project Z14 is the brand’s answer to the modern timepiece. It uses an untraditional alloy, Zalium, hence the Z name; has a sporty design with a rubber/textile strap; and it is openworked. To complete the algorithm, it’s a limited edition of 300 pieces. Harry Winston Project Z14 Retrograde Seconds The [...]

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It is hard to separate one’s love for cars and watches together. It is certain that if you love one of them, you will inevitably fall for the other as well. That is the reason behind the how these two interests are also synonymous with each other. It still holds true today, where many watches [...]

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Breguet Tradition Quantième Rétrograde 7597 To most, the Tradition watch appears to be Breguet’s outlet for being modern and edgy – something different to the brand’s, well, classical Classique line. If you think this, then you’re half-correct. From a design perspective, the watch is anything but dressy or traditional. But the indisputable fact is, Breguet’s [...]

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Jaquet Droz updates its Grande Seconde Off-Centered Chronograph with a new Black Onyx dial and it looks exceptional. Perhaps not the most sought after brand in today’s obsession with brand equity and residual value, Jaquet Droz provides another proposition in the line of its products. The monopusher chronograph with retrograde date is one such timepiece. [...]

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Twenty years after the launch of the first Maurice Lacroix model featuring a retrograde display, the new Moonphase Retrograde is announced. Here are the details. Press Release Inside its steel case, a new combination of complications are united together: a retrograde day, a retrograde date and a moon phase indication. For the first time, these [...]

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Phenomen’s first model, Axiom, seeks to highlight the brand’s French creativity, in a blend of technical prowess and style. As the debut watch for the brand, it demonstrates the design foundation that marks Phenomen’s collections to come. The Phenomen Axiom: The Automotive inspiration     The first watch from the brand, the Axiom is in [...]

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Harry Winston Project Z12 For the past fourteen years, Harry Winston’s Project Z timepieces have stayed true to its identity of being avant-garde. Many of the Project Z creations have relied on asymmetry as a core design element. This year, the esteemed New York-based jewellery and watch brand presents a new take on Project Z, [...]

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Voutilainen 217QRS Retrograde Date Mention Voutilainen and one’s mind wanders towards an imagery of the Vingt-8. The watch, with its open-tipped hands, guilloché dial, and teardrop lugs, has become synonymous with the Voutilainen brand and its creator, Kari. So iconic is the Vingt-8 in independent watchmaking that oftentimes, we forget that Voutilainen makes other watches [...]

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Blancpain Villeret Tourbillon Volant Heuere Sautante Minute Rétrograde Almost 30 years ago, Blancpain broke new ground by equipping a flying tourbillon in a wristwatch, an industry first. The precision device has since been an integral part of Blancpain’s collections. This year, the brand has not only introduced a novelty that would feature the flying tourbillon, [...]

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Blancpain released the new Villeret Grande Date Jour Rétrograde at Baselworld 2018. As its name in French suggests, it contains a large date indicator, and a retrograde day pointer. The classic design is straightforward and the complication useful for everyday wear.   The Case and Dial The overall case design is what one would expect [...]

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Bovet is synonymous with horological poetry. Their watches can be described as mechanical rhymes where everything fits harmoniously together. Bovet gets over the conventional watchmaking style and pushes the boundaries of the classic watchmaking design with fabulous pieces. Over the years, we were impressed, here at Deployant, by the Bovet Fleurier Tourbillon Virtuoso III Perpetual Calendar, [...]

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Bovet Récital 20 Astérium The new Bovet Récital 20 Astérium continues the scene previously set by its acclaimed predecessor, the Récital 18 Shooting Star, by reprising the characteristic shaped case to display a wealth of indications, astronomical or otherwise. What is more, the two timepieces form the two faces of a coin that represents time and [...]

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In a recent 2016 BBC news story, it was reported that Chimpanzees had entered the stone age for some 700 years now: Excavated ancient stone tools used by monkeys had given scientists a glimpse into the evolutionary process of simian technology. Analogously, there has been some grumblings amongst industry insiders that Swiss watchmaking has grown lethargic [...]

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Aside from Vintage Ebay Finds, we at Deployant thrive on finding fun watches which don’t break the bank. This Friday, we take a look the fun, affordable Tissot PRS516 Small Triple Seconds. Most of the time, a novel approach to watchmaking can either be found in a combination of either prohibitively expensive or independently produced in [...]

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Louis Moinet releases the new 20-Second Tempograph, a self-winding mechanical timepiece with a twist. Founded in Saint-Blaise, Neuchâtel, in 2004. The fully-independent firm was established to honour the memory of Louis Moinet (1768-1853): master watchmaker, certified inventor of the chronograph (1816), and pioneer in the use of very high frequencies (216,000 vibrations per hour). While the [...]

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Having won the 2011 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève prize for Best Design Watch, the UR-110 is at the forefront of watchmaking excellence, continuing URWERK’s radical tradition of telling the time using orbiting satellite complications. Just 4 years later, an update of the UR-110, the EastWood has come into fruition. Urwerk reworks its famous UR-110 [...]

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