Only Watch revealed 62 lots for the 2023 season, marking the 10th edition of this biennial charity auction of unique watches. We sieve through the lot, and pick six of the best. This year, the theme is to celebrate bright and colourful stories by including all colours of previous editions and adding the colour green [...]

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Have you ever looked at a beautiful watch movement and thought to yourself how brilliant it would be if one can wear his or her watch on the movement side? Today’s article addresses exactly that. In this week’s article, we are looking at watches which were produced with that idea in mind. We will be [...]

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For many, dress watches are an essential part of any gentleman’s wardrobe, let alone a collector’s watch collection. In this week’s article, we will be exploring the universe of dress watches, and select six exceptional examples across different price points. There are quite a variety of definitions that determine what exactly a dress watch is. [...]

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In an amazing turn of events, we are happy to report a new and unprecedented collaboration between Philips and Voutilainen and Zenith to restore and hand decorate a batch of Zenith Calibre 135-O movements. Press Release information with commentary in italics. New: Zenith collaborates with Phillips and Kari Voutilainen to create a masterpiece chronometer – [...]

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For the fourth instalment of this series, we will be taking a look at some of our favourite (and sometimes, lesser-known) watches from independent watchmakers. In the first three instalment, we covered six watches that were priced below S$25,000, S$60,000, and S$125,000. For today, we will be looking at an even higher price point of [...]

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Now that you’ve climbed to the top of the corporate ladder, or you’ve made a fortune for yourself. How are you going to tell the others that you’ve made it, without being too brash and loud about it? Enter the world of dress watches. Dress watches, in our opinion, are some of the nicest and [...]

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We carried the press release of the Tulloch T-01 First Edition Regulator earlier, and recently had the opportunity to meet up with Shane Tulloch and were able to spend a day to examine and photograph the watches. Here is our detailed review, with Watchscapes. Please note: As with all our large format Watchscapes, some of [...]

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Voutilainen Vingt-8 with Black Enamel Dial The Voutilainen Vingt-8 needs no introduction. In the industry, it is known as one of the most finely crafted watches and certainly, one of the most well-known watches to have risen from independent watchmaking. The brainchild of ultra-talented master watchmaker Kari Voutilainen (and all-round nice guy), the Vingt-8 made [...]

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For this week, our Throwback lists six hand-wound watches which we commend for your consideration. Enthusiasts, especially hard core ones seem to prefer to manually wind their watches, instead of relying on a rotor’s movement to wind the movement. So for this list, we take a look at our archives to recommend six. The base [...]

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When it comes to watches with complications, most of the people would like to be seen wearing one that shows people the functions and complications that he or she had paid for. After all, he or she must have probably spent quite a fair bit of money on the timepiece. However, we do think a [...]

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One of the more interesting releases this Baselworld from the Independents is the new Voutilainen 28 Ti aka “Inverse”. The watch is an re-interpretation of the venerable Vingt-8 by flipping the movement inside out…or front to back…but its more complicated than that. Details in this review. The Voutilainen Vingt-8 is the base movement which has [...]

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New from Kari Vingt-8 Inverse. The case 39mm Ti, 13.5mm (up from 11.5mm in the regular). To inverse the movement is redesigned. 269 components compared to 140+ in the regular. And more than 40 are new. Bridges are in rhodium plated German Silver. On the front only two hands. The back is the small seconds [...]

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Kari Voutilainen introduces 6 new pieces with different dial variations this year. We highlight two which caught our eye. In Ti, gold, plat and SS. Case sizes 37, 39, 44. First the Vingt-8 in 39mm In rose gold with an amazing black grand feu enamel dial made in-house. CHF 89,000. The special execution is the [...]

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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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When watch collectors venture into the realm of high horology, some never really looked beyond aspects like brand recognition, avant-garde-ness or multi-complications of a timepiece. Today, appreciation for hand finishing is still not widely understood by collectors. Granted, high horology does not strictly necessitate hand finishing but the emphasis on craftsmanship has always been a [...]

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I have been following the career of the illustrious Finnish watchmaker, Kari Voutilainen for a while. He makes interesting pieces, quite well finished. Take for example the decimal repeater…where instead of striking the quarters and minutes, the watch actually strikes the same way as we read the time…in tens of minutes, then minutes. Brilliant. His [...]

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Kari Voutilainen’s simple time only watch…a la Dufour’s Simplicity is the Observertoire. I had the oppportunity to photograph this masterpiece in Motiers in January, after the SIHH when I visited with some good friends. The dial shows great restraint, and looks extremely handsome. The rose engine turned dial is made onsite at Kari’s premises. I [...]

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