New brand Artego Watch Company has recently unveiled a collection of retro-styled automatic stainless steel diver’s watches.  Simply named the Artego Diver, it is available in a variety of colour combinations, and with prices starting at only $350, they have to be good value. What we have here is a new company entering a competitive [...]

Perrelet present a new addition to their portfolio – the Perrelet First Class Collection. The collection is based on a 3-hands-date movement and is described as being a kind of entry level piece for “young dynamic executives” and it would indeed be a grand piece to start with even for an upwardly mobile bloke.  With [...]

From charismatic Cuban watchmakers, Cuervo Y Sobrinos came a rather unusual press release today, in that it contained news on the release of a stunning limited edition of luxury writing instruments in honour of the legendary Mille Miglia motor race which was contested competitively between 1927 and 1957 and which now winds it’s (now significantly [...]

Chronoswiss add a new piece to their Timemaster collection – the Chronoswiss Timemaster Chronograph GMT. There are two versions of the piece, stainless steel or stainless steel with a DLC coating.  DLC is diamond-like coating, rumour has it that the Russian military used the process of DLC on their helecopter blades for its extreme resistance [...]

Parmigiani add to their portfolio the Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda Hemispheres watch.   The latest piece in the Tonda Hemispheres series features the usual dual timezone complication, however in this case the second timezone can be set to the minute which is unusual because normally only the hour hand of the second timezone can be adjusted [...]

Hamilton present a new unconventional piece – the Hamilton Time Player. It’s always refreshing to take a look at something a bit quirky and avant-garde and the latest piece by Hamilton certainly falls into this category.  Taking influences from the lines of longitude and latitude the piece forms a large nine square composition a bit [...]

One of my own personal favourite discoveries this year has been the Rebellion watch company, a young watchmakers based in Lonay on the shores of Lake Geneva. Rebellion have entered the fiercely competitive high-end watch market but their watches are, to say the very least, distinctive and stand-out pieces and as with their . Recently [...]

Hublot present the Official Watch for the upcoming World Cup tournament – the Hublot Classic Fusion FIFA World Cup Watch. With a watchcase, dial and bezel crafted from pink gold, the 45mm piece is a celebratory tribute to the FIFA World Cup Trophy which is sculpted from 5kg of 18 carat solid gold. A mini [...]

Graham celebrate their continued partnership with the Isle of Man TT races with a new release -The Chronofighter Oversize Tourist Trophy Bi-compax chronograph. George Graham is said to be the inventor of the chronograph, so it is pehaps appropriate that the Graham brand which was revived by The British Masters SA should feature a portfolio [...]

Vacheron Constantin present a new piece – the Overseas Dual Time Steel and Titanium. Vacheron Constantin are the oldest continuous manufacturer of watches in the world, although in recent years its classically refined portfolio has been revised to include the more contemporary sporty Overseas collection first introduced in 1998. The latest addition uses both steel [...]

I was recently impressed with how Tudor watches had upped their game with a plethora of new and very interesting pieces over the last couple of years such as the Hydronaut, GranTour and the Glamour collections. Rightly or wrongly, I had somehow been raised with the perception of a brand designed to stand in the [...]

From the relatively youthful Rado brand comes a new piece – the Rado Sintra Skeleton Automatic Limited Editon. Rado are experts in research, development and construction of the ultimate scratch-proof watchcase, research which has earned them over thirty patents in this field.  If sleek, shiny watches are not your thing then look away now………… The [...]

IWC present a new watch celebrating the legendary French footballer – the IWC Big Ingenieur Edition Zinédine Zidane. This is the second watch which celebrates the legendary French footballer, the first, released in 2008 featured the colours of the French National team i.e. blue dial, blue strap and was a pleasing enough piece, after all, [...]

Angular Momentum are never going to be the world’s biggest watch manufacturer. You won’t settle into your seat in your local restaurant, look around and notice that half of your fellow diners are sporting various examples of Angular Momentum watches. In fact, if you do own one, then it is quite unlikely that you will [...]

Girard-Perregaux release a new piece to add to their highly successful Worldtimer series, the ww.tc Shadow New York.  The manufacture has recently opened its first American boutique at 701 Madison Avenue New York and the new piece celebrates this historical event for the brand. The ww.tc Shadow was first presented in 2008 featuring an aesthetic [...]