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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The evolution of post-revival A. Lange & Söhne timepieces has been subtle yet palpable. While Lange watches possess a strong classical core, the illustrious German watch manufacture flirts with modern design frequently to attract younger clientele. Take for instance: this year’s biggest release so far – the Odysseus Chronograph – is a sports watch, with [...]

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The Lange 1 Time Zone is one of the most quintessential timepieces from modern-day A. Lange & Söhne. It is the only Lange 1 watch that is travel-themed, and the most specialised travel watch that the brand offers. Since its debut in 2005 – about ten years after the brand’s renaissance – numerous variations of the model have [...]

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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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The day Chopard cemented its place in modern-day fine watchmaking was the day it introduced the L.U.C 1860 and, with it, the now-esteemed L.U.C collection. The original L.U.C 1860 was highly acclaimed back in the day and remains a legend to this day. Since then, the L.U.C collection has blossomed to include models such as [...]

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You’ve heard the story before; the story of a wristwatch designed in 1931 that could survive a game of polo. That wristwatch was the original Reverso. For the longest time, the Reverso was time-only – no complications. In fact, it wasn’t until 1990 – as the 60th anniversary coincided with a renewed interest in mechanical [...]

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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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From sports watches to minute repeaters, world timers to perpetual calendars, Patek Philippe’s Ladies’ Collection has it all. Rather than relegating all its more feminine offerings to diamond-encrusted quartz purgatory, the brand caters to the ever-burgeoning ranks of female watch enthusiasts. Patek Philippe Aquanaut Luce Annual Calendar Ref. 5261R-001 In Watches & Wonders 2023, another [...]

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Grand Seiko’s Masterpiece Collection is pretty self-explanatory; it is simply a collection of the brand’s most artisanal pieces. Each member of the collection arises from the famed Micro Artist Studio located in Shiojiri, Nagano. The first Grand Seiko watch ever produced by the Micro Artist Studio was the SBGD201 in 2016. The watch was powered [...]

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Flight travel is back in vogue as nations look to put the pandemic behind them for good. More countries are dropping border restrictions in effort to boost tourism, with the most notable examples in recent months being Japan and Taiwan. There’s no better time for a watch manufacturer to re-introduce travel time watches than now. [...]

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Our writer, Frank, picks his three favourite watches from Watches & Wonders 2023 (that happen to be from three different countries). Armchair Picks: Frank’s 3 of the Best from W&W 2023 Another year, another Watches & Wonders successfully held. It’s always been the most exciting time of the year for the watch-crazed among us and [...]

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Patek Philippe presents a new Calatrava model featuring an original, 24-hour, central display of local and home time. The Ref. 5224R-001 is driven by the Calibre31-260 PS FUS 24H which comes with three patents. Press Release details with commentary in italics. Patek Philippe Calatrava 24-Hour Display Travel Time Ref. 5224R-001 The Patek Philippe Calatrava 24-Hour Display Travel [...]

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Patek Philippe presents the new Aquanaut Luce Annual Calendar Ref. 5261R, featuring the manufacture’s patented annual calendar mechanism from 1996. Press Release details with commentary in italics. Patek Philippe Aquanaut Luce Annual Calendar Ref. 5261R The Patek Philippe Aquanaut Luce Annual Calendar Ref. 5261R is a regular production timepiece, with a retail price of USD61,510. Commentary Patek [...]

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A. Lange & Söhne introduces a chronograph model to the brand’s sports watch collection. The new Odysseus Chronograph model features the German manufacture’s first automatic chronograph movement. Press Release details with commentary in italics. New: A. Lange & Söhne Odysseus Chronograph The A. Lange & Söhne Odysseus Chronograph is a 100-piece limited edition, boutique-exclusive watch. Price is [...]

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In 2020, the world bore witness to something off the beaten path from Grand Seiko: an openworked, concept movement which incorporates a constant-force mechanism and a tourbillon as one unit on a single axis. This was the T0 Constant-force Tourbillon concept movement. While impressive, the T0 was an uncased, unwearable movement; it was not a [...]

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In the same way that the Overseas is Vacheron Constantin’s flagship sports line, the ‘Chronograph’ is the flagship model of the Overseas collection. Since its introduction in 1996, the Overseas has always been about sporty elegance. Now already in its third generation, no other Overseas model captures this spirit as well as the Chronograph. The [...]

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The lives of human beings are heavily dictated by sunrise and sunset. For most of us, our day begins as the sun rises; we go to school, to work or to wherever it is we need to go. Then, as twilight approaches, we wind down, have dinner, relax ourselves, maybe have a nightcap before ending [...]

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Watch enthusiasts and non-watch enthusiasts see Bulgari pretty differently. The latter sees it as the brand that sells fancy jewelry while the former sees it as the brand that won’t stop breaking watchmaking records every damn year. The Bulgari Octo Finissimo line has been around for less than 10 years and already it has broken [...]

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They say that “watch guys are also car guys”. It may be a stereotype but it is a stereotype for a reason – watch guys generally do appreciate automobiles as well. These are mechanical marvels breathed into life by craftspeople and given a soul by the nerds/geeks/collectors/enthusiasts/connoisseurs who obsess over them. Inevitably, this bond has [...]

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Armin Strom, co-owned by Serge Michel and master watchmaker Claude Greisler, is a household name in high-end independent watchmaking. It’s hard to believe that the brand, in its current form, only presented its first watch 12 years ago. Since then, it has been responsible for some truly remarkable timepieces, such as the Mirrored Force Resonance [...]

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