Watch Stops: BaselWorld 2012: Ulysse Nardin Makes Waves with New Marine...
Last year, Ulysse Nardin announced the brand’s newest in-house-made caliber, the UN 118. It was not yet finished and housed in a case. Now, it is – and this is one sweet looking piece that is loaded...
View ArticleBaselWorld 2012: Chanel’s Haute Horology Premiere Tourbillon
It’s been more than a decade now that Chanel has been creating tourbillon timepieces. The newest one unveiled this year may take the cake. It is a one-minute flying tourbillon. Naturally, Chanel...
View ArticleTrend Report: Today’s Affordable Ceramic Watches
photo by Kenji TomaToday’s fashion-forward watchmakers have jumped on the engineered ceramic bandwagon – making affordable ceramic watches that look sleek and cool. Of course, it was Rado that first...
View ArticleOff the Cuff: The Bold Beauty of Blacksand
Since just before BaselWorld ended on March 14, I have been wearing a very new watch brand on my wrist: Blacksand Geneve. This brand, first unveiled to the world at Basel last year and covered by...
View ArticleAffordable Watch Week: JBW Touts Steamy Moments with its Hot New Watches
A modern and edgy new brand, JBW Timepieces offers new men’s and women’s collections crafted in stainless steel, leather, rubber or ceramic with Swiss movements and diamonds. According to the brand’s...
View ArticleWatch Stops 2012: LAS VEGAS — US Exclusive: Girard-Perregaux Launches Limited...
Aptly named the Dark Night, the newest Girard-Perregaux ww.tc watch is a stealth and mysterious timepiece that will only be available in the United States. Created in a limited edition of just 25...
View ArticleTime Capsules: Commentary – IWC Pilot’s Watch in The Bourne Legacy
Just recently, Universal Pictures released the next film in the “Bourne” series of espionage thrillers, “The Bourne Legacy,” starring Jeremy Renner as the leading man, Aaron Cross. Now, if you are just...
View ArticleAround the World: Rado Celebrates Release of HyperChrome
Last week, Rado paid tribute to its cool new HyperChrome Monobloc cased watch – on a sail in New York’s Harbor, taking privileged guests pretty up close and personal with the Statue of Liberty and...
View ArticleAround the World: Franck Muller Unveils 5-Second Tourbillon Thunderbolt, AKA...
Last week at the World Presentation of Haute Horlogerie (WPHH) 2012 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, Franck Muller unveiled a host of exciting new products. Among them: the Tourbillon Rapide, Calibre...
View ArticleThe Power of the Press: Meet the Rolex Pepsi (original pics, prices)
It happened before the BaselWorld Fair even opened to the public. Just a couple of days before, a few members of the watch press got the first look at the new Rolex Oyster Perpetual GMT Master II...
View ArticleA Moment in Time: Actress Nicole Kidman, Omega Ambassadress
Academy Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman, an OMEGA brand ambassador since 2004, is the face (and wrist) behind the newly launched Ladymatic line of sophisticated mechanical watches just unveiled in...
View ArticleTime Capsules: News – Omega Launches Ladymatic
Picture the mid 1950’s – a time of what some called the Easy Life … While there were fears of atomic bombs and the start of segregation in America, it was also a time of growth and movement. Playboy...
View ArticleTime Capsules: Product – Panerai Pioneers into the Composite World, Again
Known for its daring spirit and adventurous soul – not to mention its worthy Swiss craftsmanship and bold Italian heritage – Panerai has created watches for the Italian Navy, underwater frogmen, and...
View ArticleWeekend Sojourn: Celebrities and what they Wear
This Thanksgiving week was filled with family visits and mingling with watch aficionados on a more comfortable, easy level, as we all just relaxed and enjoyed good food and wine. One evening in...
View ArticleTrend Report: Pilot’s Watches
Alberto Santos Dumont ©CartierTaking to the skies isn’t as easy as it looks. It took Orville Wright many attempts more than 100 years ago before he got his first biplane to fly over Kitty Hawk, NC in...
View ArticleTime Capsules: Product –Ulysse Nardin Engineers Time for Women
This bold Executive Dual Time watch from Ulysse Nardin is marks another great stride for Ulysse Nardin in its mechanical watches for women move. Following the success of its women’s Caprice and Lady...
View ArticleTime Capsules: News – Jaeger-LeCoultre Celebrates 80 Years of the Reverso
In 2011, which is just around the corner, Jaeger-LeCoultre will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the famed Reverso watch. This watch – one of my all-time personal favorites – was developed in 1931 at...
View ArticleTime Capsules: Product – Hublot’s UNICO Chrono on Bracelet
When Hublot bought the machinery and certain technical rights of BNB movement manufacturer over a year ago, along with bringing in some of its top watchmakers, the watch world waited with baited...
View ArticleTime Capsules: News — Watch Design Contest Yields New TAG Heuer Monacos
TAG Heuer and Parsons The New School for Design revealed the winners of a 10-week competition called the “Art of Watchmaking,” that charged eight teams of Parsons product design students with...
View ArticleTrend Report: High-Tech Ceramic Watches
Today, more and more timepieces are made of high-tech ceramic. What’s more, this non-metallic compound is being used in the ultra- high-end for superb looks in colors that range from black to white to...
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