Automotive Timing, Part III
Watchmakers have been multiplying their automotive and motorsports collaborations in recent years. Here, we review a few prominent timekeeping/racing alliances. By Y-Jean Mun-DelSalle In this Part...
View ArticleUrwerk and Collective Horology Honor Space Shuttle
Urwerk has teamed with Collective Horology and the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum to create a special edition Urwerk UR-100 that pays tribute to Space Shuttle Enterprise on the 40th anniversary...
View ArticleA. Lange & Söhne Revives Cabaret in Limited Edition
Among the four summer A. Lange & Söhne debuts launched last week, the German watchmaker’s new Cabaret Tourbillon Handwerkskunst certainly stirred the most interest. While all the previous six...
View ArticleBomberg Celebrates Mexican Spirit
By Steve Huyton Over the years I have written about many brands that sadly haven’t stayed the course. The watch industry is a very competitive environment and only the fittest survive. By that, I mean...
View ArticleFrom Dash to Wrist
Porsche Design echoes its dashboard clock with a set of chronometers. To complement the Sport Chrono Porsche Design clock designed for Porsche Panarama and the Porsche Taycan car interior, Porsche...
View ArticleAutomotive Timing, Part IV
Watchmakers have been multiplying their automotive and motorsports collaborations in recent years. Here, we review a few prominent timekeeping/racing alliances. By Y-Jean Mun-DelSalle In this final...
View ArticleJunghans Trio Celebrates Max Bill Minimalism
Among the watches Junghans debuted this year to celebrate its 160th anniversary is this set of three 38mm Max Bill minimalist-style watches. Each of the three steel-cased timepieces – a Max Bill...
View ArticleMy Silberstein Smiles
By Stu Gleich In 2005 I became aware of Alain Silberstein, “Architecte Horloger.” With Silberstein you need to throw everything you think you know about watches out the window. Alain Silberstein’s...
View ArticleThe AOS Feline Frenzy
By Steve Huyton Roland Stampfli founded a watch brand in 2010 called AOS Watches to honor his father’s memory. AOS is located in the picturesque Swiss town of Cressier in the district of Neuchâtel,...
View ArticleBulova Updates Classic Designs
In recent months my inbox has been a repository of reminders about classic American watch design. And while plenty of digital missives arrive from the encouragingly high number of youthful watch...
View ArticleLuminox Expands Bear Grylls Collection
To emphasize its broad collection of adventure watches, Luminox launches the Bear Grylls Limited Edition Rule of 3 Sea Series watch (333 pieces for the world) that includes a special removable sleeve...
View ArticleBulova Celebrates Apollo 15 With New Chronograph
Bulova celebrates Apollo 15 with the 50th Anniversary Lunar Pilot Limited Edition, a new quartz chronograph from the storied brand. Bulova will make 5,000 50th Anniversary Lunar Pilot watches. Bulova...
View ArticleHermès Debuts Lunar Skeleton
We’ve seen open-worked designs among Hermès watch collections in the past, most notably with the recent, very sexy smoked-dial Arceau Squelette. But until this month, this famed luxury house hadn’t...
View ArticleOmega Goes for Gold with Final Seamaster ‘Tokyo 2020’ Watches
Omega, the watchmaker that has officially timed the Olympic Games twenty-eight times, is currently timing its twenty-ninth at the summer games in Tokyo. And in case you missed it, Omega announced that...
View ArticleIWC Adds Smaller-Cased Chronograph to Portofino
IWC expands its Portofino collection this week with the Portofino Chronograph 39 (Ref. IW3914), a new design debuting as a set of three 39mm steel-cased chronographs. One of three 39mm steel-cased...
View ArticleRado Sows a Ceramic Garden
Rado’s high-tech ceramic True Thinline Collection, first seen in 2011, this month debuts the Great Gardens of the World collection with three models featuring dial designs meant to recall natural...
View ArticleChronoswiss Darkens an Open Gear ReSec
Chronoswiss offers multiple shades of black on a new model within its Open Gear ReSec regulator collection. The Lucerne-based independent watchmaker combines a range of technical finishing techniques...
View ArticleTutima Commando Goes Green
Tutima recently added a green dial to its M2 Chronograph Commando collection. When it debuted late last year, this watch was available only with a black dial. The relatively new addition to this...
View ArticleShinola Teams with Lincoln for Aviator SUV Concept Design
Shinola has teamed with another high-profile Detroit-based company, luxury automaker Lincoln, to create the Lincoln Aviator SUV Shinola concept, an automotive design that blends Lincoln signature...
View ArticleSeiko Collaborates with Rowing Blazers
Seiko’s partnership with the U.S.-based sports clothing and accessories brand Rowing Blazers, announced earlier this summer, resulted in three colorful automatic Seiko 5 Sports watch designs. Two of...
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