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13 August 2018 |
Breguet,
30 minutes on the wrist,
Baselworld 2018,
Would the number of the caliber's components be enough (334 in total) to explain a Breguet Tourbillon Extra-Plat 5367? No, it wouldn’t as it is an almost superfluous piece of information. When you combine the words "Breguet" and "Tourbillon" the book of watch-making history and literature novels from 1801 onwards open at the ...
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10 August 2018 |
Orient,
30 minutes on the wrist,
Buying Watches,
Go deeper!,
Some years ago I was looking for my 40th birthday's gift. For such an occasion you'd expect to spend a lot of money, for if you're in search of a 100% in-house made timepiece with no technical complications, you might decide to spend at least 5000€ and the choice is ...
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08 August 2018 |
IWC,
30 minutes on the wrist,
Pilot's Watches,
Spot the difference,
SIHH 2016,
In watchmaking, success is all about details "The details are not the details. They make the design" the US designer Charles Eames used to say and Christian Knoop's team must have thought about this exact quote and also listened to the requests of the big collectors when they decided to ...
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07 August 2018 |
Longines,
30 minutes on the wrist,
Go deeper!,
Baselworld 2018,
Last year, in August, I was spending my holidays in Sardinia and I had a Longines Heritage Legend Diver wrapped around my wrist. It was quite a strange choice considering that, during summer, I usually wear diver's watches with a rubber strap rather than a vintage diver's watch on a Milanese mesh. All ...
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05 August 2018 |
Bulgari,
30 minutes on the wrist,
Baselworld 2018,
A few years ago, when the Octo was first launched, I could see a watch that, for the first time, was breaking the traditional watchmaking patterns and reinterpreted them - it represented a gamble also for a brand that had never dared so much before on a watch, but that ...
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02 August 2018 |
Tudor,
30 minutes on the wrist,
Baselworld 2016,
The Black Bay’s upgrade to an in-house built caliber and the presentation of the Black Bay Bronze, the Black Bay Steel & Gold last year and the GMT this year, somehow cast a shadow over the Black Bay 36. The Black Bay’s qualitative leap brought along two main consequences; the very ...
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29 July 2018 |
IWC,
30 minutes on the wrist,
Yachts and Watches,
SIHH 2018,
The sea is not a new theme to Horbiter® - we have been sailing with a watch on our wrist from the moment the Eilean, the historical sailing ship appearing in the Rio video by Duran Duran, was purchased by Panerai - IWC’s Italian cousin - and we will continue ...
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27 July 2018 |
OMEGA,
30 minutes on the wrist,
Go deeper!,
Baselworld 2016,
The Master Co-Axial Omega turned up at Baselworld 2016 with lots of novelties and an innovative technical background motif; an upgrade to the Master Co-Axial Chronometer calibers on many of their new collections. This time it happened to the Speedmaster Master Chronometer Moonphase, to the Constellation Small Seconds and even to the Omega Seamaster ...
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25 July 2018 |
Bell & Ross,
30 minutes on the wrist,
Baselworld 2018,
In 2017 Bell & Ross presented its first professional diver's watch with a square case and a product that is 100% coherent with its reputation as a manufacturer of professional tools that are used by the air force and the army alike. Could a brand that founded its fortune on the square ...
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23 July 2018 |
MIDO,
30 minutes on the wrist,
Baselworld 2018,
In a time characterized by modern regular logos with large characters in capital letters, it is nice to see that there are still manufacturers who can come up with a classic logo in italics and bold fonts. It is a clear reference to nostalgia and the time of those Belle ...
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