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 [...]

This is the Nomos Zürich watch, a supreme example of minimalist styling.  It has just been awarded the Good Design Award 2011 – proof that in an industry interspersed with complications and decorations, wristwatches with  pure and simple functionality are still meritorious.   Nomos are a Glashütte-based manufacture, founded in 1991 -  a youthful brand [...]

  The year may be young, but here’s a date for your diary – the upcoming Automates & Merveilles Exhibition which will run from April 28th to September 30th 2012.  This will be a co-operative event – three museums in three cities – the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Neuchâtel will host the Jaquet Droz [...]

    This is the Montblanc Villeret 1858 Vintage Tachydate.   Of course, Montblanc are one of the best known luxury brand names worldwide – it’s  difficult to believe that they have only been producing watches since 1997.  Marketing know-how and brand familiarity have perhaps been responsible in part for the brand’s ascendency into the [...]

  Details have just been released of the Blancpain Saint-Valentin 2012.  The Le Brassus manufacture have an excellent tradition – each year they pay tribute to the most romantic day in the calendar with a special limited edition ladies watch.   The Saint-Valentin collection is exquisite and thematic of all the amorous stuff you might [...]

    This is the Cartier Grand Complication Skeleton pocket watch which will be unveiled at SIHH 2012, a piece which in the true heritage of traditional watchmaking has its creation measured in the hours, days – weeks even, taken by the craftsmen chosen to produce it.   This is a timepiece with a compendium [...]

      Just released are details of the IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph TOP GUN Miramar.   Not everyone likes the fussiness of a decorated watch dial.  For some there’s nothing quite like the plain high-legibility of a classic Pilot’s watch.  IWC are more than accomplished in the creation of clean-cut aviation pieces – I [...]

    When Manfred Brassler founded MeisterSinger in 2001, he did so with a strong conviction to simplify time, to bring the indication of time back to its fundamental basics, therefore most, but not all, of his timepieces feature a large clean dial with a single long tapering hand.  With a MeisterSinger single-hand watch the [...]

  There are certain routines to be followed when the annual holidays are imminent.  Formal and informal get-togethers, the purchase and exchange of gifts, the ritual clearing of the desk – ceremonious traditions made all the more appeasing when you are informed that despite all the global pandemonium of 2011, sales are on the up. [...]