The Glashütte Original Senator Observer 1911 Julius Assmann is a sublime mix of the meticulous details only to be found in Glashütte mechanical watchmaking and that most enduring of boyhood heroes – the historical Polar Explorers.   The explorer involved in the creation of the Glashütte Original Senator Observer 1911 Julius Assmann is [...]

Fancy treating yourself to a gold watch?  Now even the most clumsy and blundering watch wearer can have one.  Hublot have created scratch-proof 18 carat gold, which they have very aptly named Hublot Magic Gold.   Metallurgy and Watchmaking are no strangers.  Hublot already have their own bespoke material, Hublonium, Rolex have “Rolesium”, a construction [...]

  This is the Jaeger-LeCoultre Grande Reverso 1931 Rouge with its superb red lacquered dial.  It is definitely less “rouge noir” and more “rouge sang”, nonetheless it is extremely tasteful and it’s deep hue is in complete harmony with the sharp definition of that iconic Art Deco case.   Jaeger-LeCoultre say that when the original [...]

  At SIHH 2012, the world’s thinnest self-winding skeletonised watch, the Piaget Altiplano Skeleton Ultra-Thin will be unveiled.  This watch will rest just 5.34mm high on the wrist.  Inside this watch will be a calibre which is  just 2.40mm thick. This is a ground breaking watch.  But how can something so slender be so substantial? [...]

    This is the Pierre DeRoche TNT Royal Retro RB, a watch which has an unusual feature on its dial – six retrograde seconds hands, fluttering in an ever-changing flurry of activity.  Minutes, hours even could be lost by the wearer in complete oblivion, as each hand ticks off its own ten second segment [...]

  The Watch Press.com are 300 articles old!  We are not too bashful to celebrate, and we’re certainly not too shy to blow our own trumpet.  Back in 2009 we set out to deliver original articles, news and watch reviews and we’re still doing it!  We don’t just copy and paste press releases like many [...]

    At SIHH 2012 Cartier will officially unveil the Cartier Rotonde de Cartier Cadran Lové Tourbillon, a striking piece with a three-dimensional dial so deep that you could become instantly immersed – images won’t do this one justice, it simply has to be seen on the wrist.   Cartier are a worldwide symbol of [...]

In the build up to SIHH 2012 comes pre-show details of the Richard Mille RM037, a piece with a new in-house Calibre, the CRMA1.   Technical advancements and innovations are the norm at Richard Mille.  There is a methodological process involved in achieving the end product of all Richard Mille watches, one which is often [...]

  This is the Jaquet Droz Petite Heure Minute Dragon Majestic Beijing, a piece designed to celebrate the Chinese New Year.  Timepieces produced by Jaquet Droz have a few common features – each piece is flawless, each is exquisite, each is an art form and somewhere in each collection is the fortuitous number 8.  Many [...]

  As a pre-SIHH treat, details have just been released of the Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda Retrograde Annual Calendar watch.  There is a certain voluptuousness about the timepieces produced by Parmigiani – curvesome shapes, convex silhouettes, generous hands, tactile tear-drop lugs and that unique oval logo – none are more curvy than the satisfyingly rounded case [...]

  Here is a look-see at the Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Traditionnelle 14 day Tourbillon which will be officially unveiled at SIHH 2012.  For the styling of the piece Vacheron Constantin’s Master Watchmakers dig deep into the classical pieces of the brand’s history …..  and quite a history it is too, Vacheron Constantin have  been continually [...]

    Audmars Piguet celebrate their continued patronage of Russia’s historic Bolshoi Theatre with the Audemars Piguet Jules Audemars Extra-Thin Limited Edition “Bolshoi” wristwatch.  The release of this special edition coincides with the re-opening of the Theatre after 6 years of extensive restoration.   Historic Russian buildings have featured in horology before – in 2010 [...]

  English Watchmaking has a new brand, Schofield Watches, and their first piece, the Schofield Signalman GMT PR has just been presented to the industry.   To launch a new series, never mind a new watch brand during such challenging economic times requires equal measures of optimism, courage and self-belief.  It also helps if your [...]

    Girard-Perregaux have created a new edition of their world timer series, the Girard-Perregaux ww.tc Cabinet de Curiosités Thomas Erber.   I have said it before and I’ll say it again, Girard-Perregaux make the best world timer wristwatch – 24 time zones instantly readable + date + a fly back chronograph – it is [...]

    The Grand Théâtre de Genève was the setting on Saturday night for the lavish Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) ceremonies – the watchmaking world’s more refined and infinitely less vulgar answer to the Oscars.   The great and the good (and industry personality extraordinaire, Laurent Picciotto) descended on the sumptuous setting in [...]