Easy Looking At The Easy Diver, Dive Watch Series By Roger Dubuis

On a few instances I have dedicated discussion to the world of luxury diving watches. To some, it seems a contradiction, why imbue a tool meant to be exposed to harsh elements with a luxury facade? To others, it seems like the perfect combination of things they love. I fall into this latter category. The [...]

Classic Complication & Beauty In The Maitres du Temps Chapter One Watch

New watch brands are appearing more frequently these days, and I am not sure what that means. Have existing brands run their course? Or does starting a new brand give a special value to a watch? The reality is that many brands have the same (or some of the same people) behind them. If you [...]

Finnishly Styled ‘Wearfone’ Is Another GSM Phone Watch: Low Blips On The Dork Radar

From Finland comes the Wearfone, a GSM based watch phone, that is more than a concept. This production ready (with pricing) watch with built in phone paves a new direction for watch phones everywhere. Last week I talked about Chinese watch phones that follow a similar principle here. While the Chinese watches are designed with [...]

Piaget Creates Rare Beautiful Skeletonized Thin Mechanical Watch In The Altiplano Squelette

Skeletonized watches are popular right now, and named for the view (complete or partial) of the watch movement in the dial. Some skeletonized watches provide glimpses all the way through the watch, while others provide mere hints of the gears and mechanism which together power the watch. The reason skeletonized watches are popular is because [...]

Archimede Has Two Classic Pilot Watches You Want At Good Prices

Classic pilot watches were designed to be legible in all light conditions and worn over a flight jacket. They needed to be tough and really clear to someone who was wearing goggles. Companies such as IWC and Glashutte pioneered the designs, and since then many others have taken the look in many directions. Those that [...]

High Quality Spy Gadget “Q” Watches From Veldini To Arrive Soon; Three Versions For The Spy In All Of Us

No one that likes watches doesn’t like cool gadgets. Gadgets are little morsels of functional goodness. Items designed specifically for the purpose of doing one or more things (aside from sitting there). Gadgets can be tools, but can also be so much more. So if you don’t like cool gadgets, then stop reading. But if [...]

New Angular Momentun Eglomise Portait Watches: The Imperial Russian Collection

Did you know that watches make a good place to put paintings, other than just the plebeian task of telling the time? Thats right, don’t waste valuable art real estate when you could be toting around portraits of dead aristocrats on your wrist.
Knowing this obvious fact, Swiss watch company Angular Momentum has been making [...]

Romain Jerome Builds A Nostalgic Wrist Borne Machine For Alchemists With the Cabestan Titanic DNA Vertical Tourbillon Watch

The machine you see before you represents a new offering from Romain Jerome, which looks amazing with their special treatment, although its creation cannot be credited to them. In fact the Cabestan vertical tourbillon watch was a collaborative effort between master watch makers Vianney Halter and Jean-François Ruchonnet. The Cabestan was offered through the Vianney [...]

Sinn Now Places Impressive Diapal Technology In 757 UTC Watch Series

When you consider what goes on inside of a watch movement, it is impressive that they even work at all. I mean really, have you ever considered the delicate dance of components harmonically beating and gyrating to the rhythm of the balance wheel which must maintain a strenuously high level of consistency? To think such [...]

Patek Philippe - The Complication Of Time

When it comes to grand complications, there are very few watch makers that can raise the bar quite like Patek Philippe. Yet, what really sets them apart is their ability to create pieces with timeless appeal that can actually be worn by their owners. For example, the new MECCANICO dG from those masters of time [...]

New Jorg Hysek X-Ray Perpetual Calendar Leaves Me Luke Warm

In the watch making world, Jorg Hysek is a bit of a celebrity, having a large number of famous watches under his design belt. Notable are the Tiffany & Co. Streamerica and the Patek Philippe Nautilus. A few years ago he started his own brand (aptly named), with a number of novel watch designs [...]

Novel Omega Olympics Speedmaster Watch Is Charming: Five Counters And Classically Styled

Omega has been in bed with the Olympics committee for a long time, being the “official time keeper” for most of the events. What this basically means is that Omega gets to put their name on the clocks and such that time events. But it is possible that Omega is actually making some of these [...]

Helix: New Brand Brings Cool And Rugged Okto Deep Black Diving Watch On The Cheap

2008 sparked the launch of many new watch brands. The reason for this is the drastic increase in success of the world watch market. While the economies of most places are struggling, the watch market continues to see growth. Part of the reason for this is greater diving between the wealthy and poor. Those with [...]

In Two Fell Strokes Chopard Nods To The Past And Future With Two New Mille Miglia Styled Watches

The Mille Miglia line of watches is likely to be Chopard’s best selling men’s line. The broad model line continues to evolve over the years, but maintains a wonderful following due to highly recognizable looks. A few years ago, beginning with the XL line of models, the Mille Miglia line began to grow up, literally [...]

Zenith Mega Port Royal Tourbillon: Expensive Answer To Question No One Asked

Say, why don’t they have a jumbo sized square tourbillon watch with cage bars on the crystal? Oh, well Zenith does, and this odd homage to goth time-telling befuddles my sense of association. On the one hand, you have the underpinnings of a high-quality Zenith Port Royal watch. This handsome tank watch is a modern [...]

Well Done Double Retrograde From Pierre DeRoche: New Brand On The Scene

I have to applaud a new grand that releases relatively sober and legible timepieces. The Double Retrograde from the new Swiss watch brand Pierre DeRoche is an obvious “homage” to Gerald Genta, but well done nonetheless;making for a legible watch that strays from the norm.
A retrograde watch is one that has a hand that [...]

New Linde Werdelin Sea Instrument: Luxury Computer Diving Instrument

As if the existing range of diving computers was not enough, Linde Werdelin felt it necessary to expand their “Instrument” lineup with the Sea Instrument to compliment the Land Instrument. Sounds reasonable enough. If you recall, the Linde Werdelin Land Instrument (discussed here) is a high-end computer that sits on your wrist either in a [...]

Oris Regulateur “Der Meistertaucher” - Big Is Beautiful

The polls have been counted, the results are in and the verdict…size matters! Well, at least underwater, according to Oris. The swiss watchmaker, well known for producing high quality yet at the same time surprisingly affordable diving watches, has just released its new diving watch, and its the largest ever! At 49mm the Regulateur “Der [...]

Vulcain Cricket Diver X-Treme Watch Is Attractive, Not Very Extreme

I would imagine that the typical watch consumer is intelligent. At least understanding words and meaning. What do you think of when you hear “extreme” or the even more extreme iteration of extreme, “xtreme?” Well I think about objects that takes a beating, and do so while functioning well. Not fancy gold watches with mechanical [...]

Titanic DNA Day & Night - What Time Is It You Ask. At This Price, Does It Really Matter?

Earlier this year saw the release of the incredible, yet arguably excessive, new timepiece series from Romain Jérôme, the Titanic DNA, a unique offering that uses parts of the actual ship in its construction. In what seems to be a year of firsts for this relatively new brand, Romain Jérôme has introduced its own special [...]

Breguet Grand Complication Ref. 1160 Pocket Watch: Return Of A Legend In Spirit And Actuality

1783 France - Louis Abraham Breguet is contacted for the commission of the world’s most elegant and complicated timepiece to be handed to Queen Marie-Antoinette. A task commissioned by Count Axel de Ferson, an officer in the Queen’s high guard, and a suitor to the queen. Price and time meant nothing, “make the most spectacular [...]

New 2008 Citizen Promaster Diver Watches: Eco-Drive + Atomic Accuracy

There seems to be a constant feature ballet involving Citizen, Seiko, and Casio. The dance involves elegantly weaving in an increasing amount of technology into watches while making them look appealing at the same time. For a while Casio was prevailing in the feature category, but most of the watches succeed in looking “cool and [...]

Seiko Velatura Diver Watch: Innovative Kinetic Direct Drive Movement Gets More Manly Exterior

New for Basel 2008 Seiko has released a bevy of new watches. Even in the shadow of some of the new Seiko Spring Drive watches, the often overlooked Velatura line has a wonderful new diver watch. The Velatura line was introduced last year, the highlight being the Kinetic Direct Drive movement discussed by aBlogtoRead.com here. [...]

New Flavors of Citizen Campanola Eco-Drive Watches For Basel World 2008

I call any watch a “new flavor” when the look and feel change a bit, but overall the watch is the same, being part of a series. This is a watch maker’s way of sprucing up a line a bit, or adding a few more color schemes. Don’t let this practice fool you into thinking [...]

BaselWorld 2008 - CONCORD C1 Tourbillon Gravity, Defying More Than Just Belief

Last year the luxury watch brand Concord moved to reposition itself as an even more exclusive luxury brand, with innovative, edgy designs and its former lines reduced to one, the new C1. When this spectacularly sportif, hunkily elegant new watch called the Concord C1 was first launched at BaselWorld 2007, last April, the entire production [...]

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