On display at Baselworld 2012 will be the Konstanin Chaykin Mystery watch, the latest timepiece from the Saint Petersberg-based Master Watchmaker.  If you are lucky enough to view it, you may leave the booth a little perplexed…and with a few questions – What drives the hands…..?  Where is the calibre…?  How did he do [...]

  Roger Smith has been awarded the British Horological Institute’s Barrett Silver Medal, their highest honour, for his “Dedication to and successfully continuing the finest traditions of English Watchmaking”.   In his acceptance speech, Roger recalled his days spent as a student at Manchester’s School of Horology, where he quickly realised that he “had been [...]

  Due to be officially unveiled at Baselworld  2012 is the  Blancpain Villeret with Flinque Lacquered Dial.  With this piece, not only do you get the superb textured guilloché finishing with its waves and undulations, but also a neritic depth achieved by building up layer upon layer of applied blue lacquer.   The Villeret Collection [...]

Something special from Glashütte’s first watchmaking company is the A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar watch, unveiled at SIHH 2012.   Tourbillons are tricky little things.  Their creation requires the skills of a Master Watchmaker.  Their number of components can be counted in the hundreds.  Their construction can be measured in hours [...]

    Recently unveiled are images and details of the Vacheron Constantin Métiers d’Art – Les Univers Infinis series, inspired by the work of Dutch artist M.C. Escher, who was in turn inspired by Moorish art.  He favoured repeated graphic patterns indicative of order, symmetry and geometry.  Vacheron Constantin take inspiration from the repeated tiling [...]

    This is the Girard-Perregaux Laureato Tourbillon with Three Bridges – beautiful isn’t it?  It is a superb combination of titanium, platinum and lucent sapphire – reassuringly exclusive, only ten will be made.   The first piece in the collection, the  “Tourbillon Sous Trois Ponts d’Or”, designed by Constant Girard-Perregaux was awarded a gold [...]

  Just unveiled at SIHH 2012 is the Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 24 Secondes Contemporain.   Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey are perhaps best known for their development of the tourbillon.  Not content with its “traditional” arrangement, they stubbornly tinker with it, and in doing so have created some of the most innovative and exquisite tourbillon [...]

Hermès unveil two new, and very unique pieces at SIHH 2012, the Hermès Arceau Marqueterie de Paille.   The Parisian luxury goods brand launched its first proprietary movement in 2008, an indication that the brand were serious about watchmaking – a commitment which has paid off, at the Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix in November the [...]

    This is the Jaeger-LeCoultre Duometre à Spherotourbillon, one of the most remarkable new watches unveiled at SIHH 2012.  It features a compendium of indications, all beautifully arranged on the right side of the dial, but these pale to insignificance – what really draws you in is the superb tourbillon over on the left. [...]

    Just released are images and details of the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Jumbo for 2012, a piece which will mark the 40th anniversary of the Royal Oak collection.  For fans of the brand, and in particular the Royal Oak, it will come as no suprise – but will, perhaps cause much relief -  [...]

  New for SIHH 2012 is the Jaeger-LeCoultre Deep Sea Vintage Chronograph, inspired by JLC’s Memovox Deep Sea wristwatch – more “chronograph” than “deep sea”  … but don’t let than put you off, it’s very “vintage”.   In the 1950′s, deep sea diving was more a military than a recreational activity but a diver then [...]

  New for 2012 is the Bremont ALT-1 WT, the brand’s first World Timer watch.   When a watch company describes its new watch as “wonderfully over-engineered” you just know it will be something special…. and the Bremont boys know a thing or two about engineering.  In just ten years they’ve built a portfolio of [...]

News of the new for 2012 Linde Werdelin SpidoSpeed Steel Anthracite DLC blasted into our inbox without any warning this morning, scattering our other emails into oblivion and leaving our inbox in tatters with cyber plasterboard fluttering from the walls! Cloaked in satin-smooth Diamond Like Carbon the latest offering from Morten Linde and Jorn Werdelin [...]

  Details have just been released of the Speake-Marin Renaissance Tourbillon Minute-Repeater.  At The Watch Press.com we do not normally mention prices – it’s simply not good “watch-etiquette”.  However, when Peter Speake-Marin released his last piece, the Spirit Pioneer, a fine and handsome limited edition watch, we couldn’t help ourselves – at just a shade [...]

  New for 2012 is the Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra GMT.  This is the first time that the brand have added a GMT complication to one of their “proprietary” movements – and on the dial things look a bit different too…..   The textured dial pattern, characteristic of Aqua Terra models remains – there would [...]