Top 20 Watch Brands by Geography: What Your Region Says About You
Raman Kalra enjoys exploring different trends within the watch market. One topic he hasn’t considered until now is how geography plays a role in tastes. And here he does just that.
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Joshua’s Ultimate ‐ If Money is No Object ‐ 10 Watch Collection: 2022 Edition – Reprise
/0 Comments/in Highlights, Collectors and Collecting, Thoughts & Opinion/by Joshua MunchowWhile we are now looking forward to the 2024 releases, Joshua Munchow looks back at 2022, which was a pretty tremendous year for watchmaking.
Watch Market Predictions 2024: Is the Tide Turning?
/2 Comments/in Highlights, Thoughts & Opinion/by Raman KalraMany of the trends that we have experienced happening slowly over the last few years have continued. These include more dial colors, case materials, and a shift to smaller case sizes. However, it feels we have also hit a turning point where some changes are coming about.
Larcum Kendall and K1: The Greatest Watchmaker and Watch You have (Probably) Never Heard Of – Reprise
/3 Comments/in Watch Brands & Horology, Highlights, History/by Ian SkellernYou may have heard of a few or more of the following historical people and events: Thomas Mudge, George Graham, John Harrison, the Longitude Prize, Captain James Cook, and the mutiny on the ‘HMS Bounty.’ However, you are less likely to have heard the name of a horologist who played a pivotal role in all of the above: Larcum Kendall (1719–1790). Come with me on a worldwide adventure involving timekeeping and history.
Why I Bought It: A. Lange & Söhne Pour Le Mérite Tourbillon – Reprise
/0 Comments/in Highlights, Collectors and Collecting, A. Lange & Söhne/by GaryGWhen the hammer came down at the Phillips auction and GaryG became the new owner of an A. Lange & Söhne Pour Le Mérite Tourbillon, the feeling was one of complete joy, representing the culmination of a multiyear chase. What makes this particular watch so special in so many ways to him?
Time Travel at Sea: How the SS Warrimoo was in Two Different Days, Two Different Months, Two Different Years, Two Different Seasons, and Two Different Centuries – All at the Same Time!
/2 Comments/in Highlights, History/by Ian SkellernThe SS Warrimoo would be long forgotten but for an unusual story of how the ship managed to navigate to a position in which it simultaneously existed in four different hemispheres and two different centuries. Ian Skellern shares the ships story here.
Professional Diver Nigel Band and the Unusual Rolex Sea-Dweller and Oyster Perpetual Models that Plumbed the Depths and Scaled the Heights – Reprise
/0 Comments/in Highlights, Rolex, Vintage/by Colin Alexander SmithNigel Band is a professional diver with over 30 years’ worth of commercial and teaching experience. He also owns two rather unusual Rolex watches: a 1986 “triple-six” Rolex Sea-Dweller Reference 16660 and a Himalayan mountain climbing 1952 Rolex Oyster Perpetual. Put on your breathing apparatus as the fascinating stories of these two watches are told by Colin Alexander Smith here.
Trends: Not All Watches are Created Equal – Reprise
/0 Comments/in Highlights, Thoughts & Opinion/by Martin GreenTrends rule a larger part of our lives than many of us wish to admit. Sometimes we follow trends consciously, but often we are subconsciously influenced in the choices we make. All brands perform a delicate tightrope walk, but they differ in how successful they are. Martin Green takes a look at how trends affect or don’t affect now-iconic timepieces.
Girard-Perregaux Neo Constant (Force) Escapement: The Evolution of a Revolution
/0 Comments/in New for 2023, Highlights, Girard-Perregaux/by Martin GreenWhile it is remarkable how Girard-Perregaux made the movement, it is even more astonishing how they turned it into such an incredibly good-looking watch. Compared to its predecessor, the Neo Constant Escapement has a very wearable size of 45mm in diameter at a thickness of 14.8mm. It sits nicely on even a smaller wrist thanks to relatively short lugs, while the titanium case keeps the weight down.
30th anniversary of the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore: Celebrity Collaborations
/2 Comments/in Royal Oak Offshore, Highlights, Audemars Piguet/by Alexey KutkovoyIn this fourth article commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore (following: 4 New 2023 Releases, Here Come ‘The Beasts’, and ROO F1s, High Octane Fairy Tales of Super Star Racing Drivers), here is the topic that initially interested Alexey Kutkovoy the most, i.e. the annals of the Royal Oak Offshore limited and special editions.