Two weeks ago we brought you details of the most precise chronometer ever certified by the Besançon Observatory since 2006, and it wasn’t an outwardly flamboyant timepiece neither was it flashy.  It was the classically understated, plain almost, Laurent Ferrier Galet Classic.  Now it’s back in the news with an ivory Grand Feu enamel dial [...]

  Recently I read on another watch blog that the “DLC Thing” was over, out of date, and sooooo last year.  That maybe so, but watches with pitch black cases, shadowy dials and inky inner workings just keep on coming.   As far as blacked-out watches go, the Richard Mille RM 016 Black Night is [...]

    This is the Jaeger-LeCoultre Deep Sea Auto Chronograph which continues the brand’s retrospective into their rich historical portfolio.   Perhaps there should be a new category of Dive watches, which are perfectly capable of safely timing a dive but do so quietly.  Without jagged edges, with bezels which conform and remain in proportion [...]

    This is the Chopard Grand Prix de Monaco Historique Chronograph for 2012.   It is a formula that works – a prestigious Motorsport event + a renowned watch brand = a desirable chronograph with mandatory automobile-inspired styling, usually produced in a limited edition.  The brand in this equation is Chopard and the event [...]

  This is the Hublot  Skull Bang developed by Hublot for Laurent Picciotto – and in an almost “guilty pleasure” kind of way it is strangely appealing.  Laurent Picciotto is the founder of Chronopassion, but he is not just a retailer – he is a vanguard for the industry, unafraid to offer patronage to the [...]

  Mmmmm – the Girard-Perregaux Vintage 1945 Tourbillon With Three Gold Bridges in pink gold?  If you are a GP enthusiast this may sound just a little bit familiar, it is more or less the same model presented in 2009.  But it matters not, if you flutter like a moth towards the flame that is [...]

  This is the Chopard L.U.C. XP Skeletec unveiled earlier this year.   It was a good day at the office when Paul-André Chopard met with Karl Scheufele, because although it marked the end of the founding family’s control of the brand, in Mr.Scheufele he had chanced upon an individual who would evolve the business [...]

  When Hublot’s ebullient Jean-Claude Biver stepped onto the deck of one of Ernesto Bertarelli’s super-yachts to promote the latest Hublot/Alinghi timepiece last week, he must surely have done so with a little swagger. Although it has been 3 years since Hublot nipped-in and wooed Alinghi, from their previous timekeeping partner, Audemars Piguet, no watch [...]

  The Panerai Radiomir Black Seal 3 Days 45mm – Panerai’s in-house P.9000 Calibre makes its debut in a Radiomir case.   Panerai. Love them, love them not.  So often the case with the most instantly recognisable, historic models – they are either loved or loathed, there is no middle ground.  The Radiomir, which began [...]

  No headline, no tag line, just WOW …. the MB&F Moonmachine.       When Maximilian Büsser dreams he has visions of watches – not as you and I imagine them to be, but as fantastical, whimsical triumphs of haute horlogerie – and these are just his day dreams.  By night he slumbers soundly, [...]

  Perhaps you are familiar with the Only Watch Auction, held in Monaco every two years?  – the one, which last year raised over $6 million for the AMM (Against Muscular Dystrophy).  For the same worthy cause,  Blancpain have put forward for auction a mighty and meaty Lamborghini Gallardo LP 600 GT3.  And ’tis not [...]

Dent London have released details of a new limited edition watch, the Dent Ministry Evolution Chronograph.   Open the home page of the Dent website and you will be bombarded with facts, names and dates.  This is a company which in stating that their watches have “Two hundred years of British history packed into every [...]

  Perhaps you are unaware that Laurent Ferrier’s Galet Classic has achieved a watchmaking technological achievement.  It has not been attached to a submersible travelling to the deepest point on Earth.  It has not been strapped to a Jetman’s wrist.  It has gained a much more “traditional” accolade bereft of sensationalism – it has been [...]

  In honour of their continued partnership with the Biennial Le Mans Classic Race, Richard Mille announce two special editions – the Richard Mille RM 008 LMC Tourbillon Chronograph and the RM 011 LMC Automatic Chronograph.     Of course, given a choice you’d choose the tourbillon model and it is superb – microblasted titanium [...]

  Linde Werdelin have added to their 3 Timer Collection with the Linde Werdelin 3 Timer Microbillé and the 3 Timer Gold Accents, pictured here.     Linde Werdelin are only ten years old, yet in that time they have become the darlings of the watch media with their fresh, energetic and original approach to [...]