Jaeger-LeCoultre is adding a blue colorway to their impressive Master Compressor Extreme LAB 2, a watch that impressed us in the past with its technical inventiveness. The Extreme LAB 2 was first introduced clad in red accents, and this year JLC is adding blue to the mix. Inside is the same manufacture movement setting the stage […]
In this week’s What’s Selling Where, we are bringing you some great watches coming up for sale at Antiquorum on March 15th in Geneva (full catalog here and virtual catalog here) as well as tons of other great watches available on eBay and through dealers. As a general reminder for our American readers (and everyone else, too), buying […]
With all the certified chronometers around these days, it’s easy to forget that the term originally was applied to the accurate clocks necessary for navigating the world’s oceans in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Those timepieces were heavy hand-wound clocks mounted on gimbals inside of rubberwood boxes, a far cry from the wristwatches that […]
We’re gonna call it like it is: there simply are not that many interesting new watches being made today for under $1,000. You know, where designs aren’t simply reinterpretations of more expensive, existing watches. Officine Autodromo is an exception to that, and while we wish more of them featured mechanical movements, we are big fans […]
Manufacture Royale Androgyne Pure Glacier Manufacture Royale is relatively new to the scene of independent watchmakers, having begun operation in 2010. Since then, the brand has positioned itself in the relatively crowded space by offering a number of models with brash aesthetics and, notably, beautifully designed in-house movements. One of these models, the Androgyne, distinctly symbolizes the brand’s […]
One of the greatest issues facing the mechanical watch industry today is a simple one – how to keep those millions of timepieces running into the next generation. The Swiss invest millions into hiring people to make watches, but seemingly very little into staff and resources dedicated to repairing them. With Swiss conglomerates offering parts to […]
It seems as if we can’t go a day without someone speculating on just what role smartwatches will have on our lives. Will they change the way we live and work, or will they be just another horological flash in the pan? In the middle of all the hyper-tech talk there is a giant living […]
There are a few stores around the world that any watch lover must make a point of visiting – Panerai’s flagship in Florence is certainly one of them. The historical home to Panerai dating back to 1860, the shop was just re-imagined and expanded in November of 2014. Here is a quick look inside. Located in […]
Stephen Forsey, co-founder of Greubel Forsey. Image courtesy Greubel Forsey. If you read the newspaper or watch TV, you know that we live in a profit-hungry world. Budget forecasts dominate discourse, and even our most innocuous diversions, platforms like Facebook and Instagram, are under pressure from shareholders to produce more and more revenue. What we […]
My first vintage watch was a Cartier Santos Dumont – a small, handsome, time-only yellow gold model from the 1960s that introduced me to the wide, wide world of vintage watch research. I became fixated on this watch for a myriad of reasons, but most certainly because I knew Cartier as a watchmaker and this particular watch harkened back to both […]