-
06 October 2020 |
NOMOS Glashütte,
Hand Winding Watches,
German Watches,
Watch Reviews,
A few years ago, I came across the following advertisement on the Internet: "This man is crazy; he's winding his watch by hand." That ad campaign wasn't exclusively promoting a brand, but a way of enjoying mechanical watchmaking, and a hand-wound timepiece over its self-winding counterpart. It encouraged people to ...
»
-
18 September 2018 |
IWC,
Military Watches,
Hand Winding Watches,
Aviator Watches,
Watch Reviews,
SIHH 2016,
If you were to ask me which two key points of the 2016 SIHH fair I am going to remember for a long time, I would reply with two nouns; details and tradition. Those two nouns, when applied to IWC, mean a revamping of the Pilot's collection, especially the Big ...
»
-
15 January 2018 |
Panerai,
Hand Winding Watches,
SIHH 2018,
Even the last line of defence of the rebirth of Officine Panerai, the Panerai Luminor Logo (and its elder brother; the Luminor Marina Logo), has finally fallen, giving way to a new in-house built caliber. The Panerai Luminor Logo still remained the last Panerai to host the manual caliber of ...
»
-
16 January 2017 |
Panerai,
Hand Winding Watches,
Watch Reviews,
SIHH 2017,
This year, Panerai takes part in the SIHH by presenting a model inspired to its historic military roots, and it relaunches a timepiece that was originally crafted as a prototype at the end of the 30s exclusively for the Italian Navy front line soldiers; the Radiomir 3646 Type A. One of ...
»
-
08 September 2016 |
Glashutte Original,
Hand Winding Watches,
Watch Reviews,
Baselworld 2016,
If you follow the world of horlogerie, it is your moral duty to remind all its aficionados at least twice per year, right before the opening of the two most important fairs, what Saxon watch-making is all about so that the two brands that make the small city of Glashütte ...
»
-
17 August 2016 |
Panerai,
Hand Winding Watches,
Watch Reviews,
SIHH 2016,
The PANERAI Luminor 8 Days Set PAM786 isn’t the first experiment by the brand to bring together under one reference two limited-series timepieces. Two years ago PANERAI presented its reference 785 that was quite similar to this one and was made up of two Luminor watches, this reference was also the very first attempt that ...
»
-
22 January 2016 |
Panerai,
Hand Winding Watches,
Watch Reviews,
SIHH 2016,
If the indexes on your Panerai Radiomir watch's dial had been made of radium, your timepiece would be worth a lot of money and its black dial would have slowly transformed itself into something that is similar to the light chocolate brown dial of the Panerai Luminor 1950 3 Days ...
»
-
10 January 2016 |
Alpina,
Buying Watches,
Hand Winding Watches,
Aviator Watches,
Watch Reviews,
Alpina produces aviators' watches since the 1920s Do you own a diver's watch, a three-counter, a timepiece with retrograde indications, a Reverso and a Sixy-Nine but you are still not the proud owner of real aviator's watch? No problem; the Alpina Startimer Pilot Heritage MK III that you can see in ...
»
-
16 June 2015 |
Orient,
Hand Winding Watches,
Japanese Watches,
Watch Reviews,
The Subaru 360 is a little 360cc car, which has been very popular in Japan since 1958 and it represents what the Fiat 600 has been for Italy, a piece of our history that we need to protect and safeguard. Japanese people are very proud of their history and products ...
»
-
31 May 2015 |
Baume & Mercier,
Hand Winding Watches,
Watch Reviews,
SIHH 2015,
Every watch manufacturer has its own leading product, what marketing people call “the flagship model”. On a hypotetical scale a minutes repeater within a fine watchmaking brand's collection of in-house complicated equals a gold manual-winding-complicated-watch within a luxury entry level brand's collection of automatic watches. This comparison can help us ...
»
