As a pioneer in the field of diving watches, it doesn’t come as a surprise that Blancpain has a rich history in this area. While Blancpain’s diving watches were available to amateur divers, the brand ...
At the recent digital edition of the LVMH Watch Week, it was the Big Bang Tourbillon Automatic Orange Sapphire on which all the spotlights were aimed. This made it that the two other watches featuring ...
Carbon is a material that holds no secrets anymore for Richard Mille. The brand that loves to push the envelope with its technical and material innovations has mastered it completely and utilizes it in ways ...
In 1999, Patek Philippe surprised the world with the Twenty~4, a stylish manchette-style wristwatch for ladies only. In this watch, inspired by Art Deco design, Patek Philippe combined two materials rarely seen together in their ...
The story is one of the true legends of the watch world; how Charles Vermot, watchmaker at Zenith, got in the 1970’s the orders to destroy everything connected to the El Primero movement but instead ...
In 1988 watch designer Gérald Genta—the mastermind of Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak and Patek Philippe’s Nautilus—unveiled the Gefica under his own company shingle. Eschewing a case of fancy gold or cheaper stainless steel, Genta chose ...
El Salvador might seem a strange place to start a watch story. The Central American country, along with its neighbouring Guatemala and Honduras, is seen as the centre of some of the worst crime in ...
James Bond has always had a thing for the mountains.Roger Moore and his banana-yellow ski suit; George Lazenby and his white goggles and single ski; Pierce Brosnan and Sophie Marceau swooping around the Caucasus in ...
Just as hemlines go up and down, so the fashion for a different shape of watch is an ever-shifting landscape. For the last few decades two shapes have dominated – the classic round, and the ...
Don’t let the name put you off: it’s part of the charm of Ulysse Nardin that no one at the brand has thought to rename its radically innovative horological project in the 18 years since the ...
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