To say that Jean-Marie Schaller, the founder of the modern Louis Moinet brand, is passionate about meteorites is an understatement: he has been studying and collecting them for more than 20 years. Now Louis Moinet take a darker look at the night sky with the Black Moon.
Few watches released in the last three decades have been as revolutionary as the Ressence Type 5. And now with the Type 5 L, Ressence increases legibility even more by the abundant application of Super-LumiNova.
Armin Strom launched the ‘First Edition’(launch edition) of the One Week a year ago in a limited edition of just 25 pieces. The good news for those that missed out the first time round is that Armin Strom have now launched the Manufacture Edition in a limited edition of 100 pieces.
When you think of Albania, a small Balkan country on the Adriatic and Ionian seas north of Greece, it’s likely that, 1. You can’t remember if/when you last thought of Albania and 2, If you did, you weren’t thinking high-end artistic watchmaking. Pirro Artistic Jewelry has a mission to change that.
Independent Chinese watchmaker Qin Gan has over thirty years of experience in antique watch restorations and has crafted numerous prototype watches with complex features such as flyback, tourbillon, automaton, and repeater mechanisms. He now launches his second model under his own brand, the sublime Pastorale II.
As an Australian, Ian Skellern is partial to the magical changing colors of opals. While there have been quite a few watches with fantastic opal dials, none are a match for showing the incredible range of hues as the Louis Moinet Geopolis Opal.
Marco Borraccino began working on Singer Reimagined’s first model back in 2014. He launched the Track1 in 2017, which won the Prize for the Best Chronograph at the 2018 GPHG.
Since then, three more collections of timepieces have been added to the Singer Reimagined portfolio: 1969, FlyTrack, and in 2024 the Divetrack.
In an interesting twist, Stephen McDonnel, the developer of the MB&F LM Sequential, initially envisaged the left side chronograph as a flyback chronograph, however, due to the number of technical issues to resolved, decided it would be safer to save that for a later version: and here it is. And with two flybacks!
Armin Strom’s Gravity Equal Force collection continues to grow with the 2024 launch of the Ultimate Sapphire Purple model.
In low light conditions, the De Bethune DB28xs Purple Rain seems to have a nice, deep hue, but when taken into the light, preferably sunlight, it really comes to life.