Not everybody likes their watches served on the rocks, and it’s evident that Piaget has been listening closely to market trends. With the return to more compact case sizes that
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MONOCHROME and Austrian independent watchmaker HABRING² are proud to announce the completion of a project that is dear to our hearts. The result is the creation of a unique, highly collectable
The name Pilot’s Watch at IWC has long meant more than just watches made for military purposes. In fact, it also stands for the long-standing connection of IWC to motorsport.
While Nomos started its life with a collection of discreet, almost minimalist watches inspired by Bauhaus, the brand is now, without a doubt, the most daring company of Glashütte. It
French watchmaking company Yema has been on the resurgence in the past few years, with a range of historically inspired and very well-built tool watches. Add in the factor of
To kick things off, this will be a very personal story, and yes, it is about a mechanical watch. When I first got into watchmaking, I knew very little about
A complex, delicate device that aims at counteracting the negative effects of gravity on the regulating organ of a watch (and an invention of Genius A.L. Breguet), the tourbillon is
Alpina was created to craft strong, robust watches capable of resisting the challenging environment of the Alps. Inspired by this vision, Alpina specializes in rugged watches for outdoor use, as
The Streamliner collection marked H. Moser & Cie‘s incursion into the luxury sports watch segment in 2020, represented by an impressive Flyback Chronograph. With its fluid and sophisticated design, the
Despite the breakthrough in materials, engineering technologies and manufacturing equipment, the new millennium has yet to produce much innovation in mechanical chronograph movement design. Still, upgrades to how chronographs function
Independent watchmaker Czapek launched its first luxury sports watch – the Antarctique – with an in-house movement in 2020, with the inaugural Terre Adélie edition. Sporting different dial colours and
When looking at the brand’s presence and the already extensive collection it proposes, it is hard to believe that Independence Wild One was founded only 5 years ago. Indeed, the brand
In business, some might argue there is no such thing as “No!”. Yvo Staudt, the passionate young man that’s the driving force behind Staudt Chronometrie, likes to think so at
Claude Greisler is the co-founder and Head Watchmaker at Armin Strom, one of the few brands producing resonance watches. His early background as a restorer of vintage timepieces led him
Abraham-Louis Breguet is famous for many horological innovations, including his successful perpetual watches of the 1780s that were equipped with an oscillating weight to capture the kinetic energy of a
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