Inspired by the Speedmaster ST 105.003 that Ed White wore in 1965 when he became the first American to walk in space, this new 39.70 mm stainless steel model features a bezel ring in polished black ceramic —ZrO2— with a tachymeter scale in white enamel. Gracing the black step dial are the familiar Moonwatch hands, small seconds sub-dial, 30-minute recorder and 12-hour recorder, and central chronograph hand. Collectors will be thrilled to see the addition of the iconic “Dot over Ninety” and other respectful nods to the past, including vintage Omega logos throughout the design.
Experience: Magnanni Camarena Cuero Sneakers. Still Made in Spain by its Founding Family.
Founded by Sebastian Blanco in 1954, Magnanni started making shoes at a five-employee factory in the small town of Almansa in the La Mancha region of Spain. As a side note, the region of La Mancha was made famous by the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha —or just Don Quixote—, the main character in the Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes that is today one of the greatest masterpieces of world literature. Published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon.
Experience: Porsche 911 50th Anniversary Edition Geyser Gray. A Modern Interpretation with Vintage Character Like the Patek Philippe Pilot Travel Time.
What could be more classic than wearing a Patek Philippe Calatrava Pilot Travel Time ref. 5524G while driving a highly rare 50th Anniversary Porsche 911. For five decades, the Porsche 911 has been the heart of the Porsche brand. Few other automobiles in the world can look back on such a long tradition and such continuity as the Porsche 911. It has been inspiring car enthusiasts over the world since its debut as the model 901 at the IAA International Automotive Show in September 1963. In 2014, to celebrate half a century of this iconic car, Porsche presented a modern iteration with vintage touches referred to as the 50th anniversary 911.
Experience: Twelve Incredible Perpetual Calendar Pictures to Celebrate the New Year 2020
What better way to start celebrating the New Year than with 12 incredible images of Perpetual Calendars from four of our favorite brands. Perpetual Calendars are the most special type of mechanical watch to wear during New Year’s as this type of complication is the only one that accounts for leap years and which always recognizes the months with 30 or 31 days making that instantaneous calendar wheel jump simply fascinating. These 12 images are some of our favorites and include the Vacheron Constantin Overseas Perpetual Calendar, the Patek Philippe Nautilus Perpetual Calendar ref. 5740, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar ref. 26574ST, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Ultra-Thin ref. 26586IP and the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master 8-Day Perpetual Calendar.
Experience: Trench London Bond Harrington Jacket. Black and White Themes Like a JLC Master Compressor Extreme World Chronograph.
One of the most anticipated and latest finds is the Trench London line of jackets. Trench London is a very new brand with garments sewn in limited quantities and delivered straight from England. Each month, Trench London will deliver new garments without exceeding more than 100 pieces by line and by design. Trench London carries four different types of jackets or trenchcoats for both men and women. The Trench London Bond Harrington Jacket we spotted it for the very first time worn by a British gentleman in the company of Lewis Hamilton at the Grand Prix of Austin.
News: Presenting the Richard Mille RM 33-02. A Reinterpretation of the RM 33 from 2011.
By marrying the performance of a sports watch with the elegance of a round timepiece, Richard Mille has successfully merged two diametrically opposing characteristics. Overseen by Julien Boillat, the Richard Mille watch exteriors teams have reinterpreted the collection’s first ultra-thin round watch the RM 33 which was introduced in 2011. The taut lines of the case combine the curves of a tonneau shape and the elegance of a round form with a subtle allusion to sporty style in the design of the hollows. This first round Carbon TPT automatic watch exhibits a Carbon TPT bezel and case back alongside a satin-finished red gold caseband.
News: Presenting the Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos Transparente. A New Face for an Iconic Clock.
Inside its crystal clear cabinet made of anti-reflective glass, the new Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos Transparente clock displays a strikingly sober new face. From every angle —front, side or back— the vision is captivating and the equilibrium is perfect. The dial is embellished by an Art Deco style. Hour-markers and hands follow a minimalist aesthetic. The base is satin-brushed and rhodium plated. Thanks to a very simple mechanism invented by engineer Jean-Léon Reutter in 1928 and brought to market by Jaeger-LeCoultre in the 1930s, the Atmos clock lives on air. Always as constant, always as accurate.
Experience: Fauré Le Page Belt. A Classic Meets one of Our Favorite Belts at the Moment.
Established 38 years earlier than Vacheron Constantin —which happens to be the oldest watch manufacture in the world founded in 1755 with over 260 years of uninterrupted history—, Fauré Le Page is today the oldest French luxury 'maroquinier' —leather goods company— in the world as it was established in 1717, more than a century before Goyard and Louis Vuitton. Much like a rare Rolex Datejust Oysterquartz ref. 17000A that is reserved for those that know, Fauré Le Page would be the equivalent when it comes to luxury leather goods.
News: Cory Richards' Overseas Dual Time Prototype Sells for $106,260 USD at Phillips Watches Game Changers Auction
The Vacheron Constantin Cory Richards’ Overseas Prototype was auctioned at Phillips Watches last night December 10th in New York City as part of the Phillips’ Game Changers auction. The Phillips Game Changers auction was dedicated to watches owned by extraordinary people who are considered “game changers” in their fields. Along with Cory Richards’ watch, other important watches were offered for sale including Jack Nicklaus’ Rolex Day-Date as well as Marlon Brando’s Rolex GMT Master.
News: Introducing the Vacheron Constantin Les Cabinotiers Armillary Tourbillon Piece Unique
In the wake of the Reference 57260 watch and its 57 complications presented in 2015, this one-of-a-kind timepiece highlights two of its emblematic functions: the bi-axial armillary tourbillon with spherical balance-spring and the instant retrograde display of the time indications. This exceptional horological structure is housed in a titanium case, an ultra-light material that reveals the full depth of this model in a resolutely contemporary style. Four patents have been registered for the high-precision manual-winding 1990 calibre powering this watch.
News: Introducing the Richard Mille RM 11-04 Roberto Mancini Carbon TPT
Roberto Mancini, a Richard Mille partner since 2013Manager of the Squadra Azzurra, Italy’s national football team, Roberto Mancini is back on home turf after coaching the Saint Petersburg Zenit club for two years. He now takes up a new challenge: making Italy the number one football nation in Europe, and the world. Mancini will wear the new RM 11-04 Automatic Flyback Chronograph while shouldering his task and attempting to make the dream of so many Tifosi come true.
Insider: MB&F Legacy Machine Thunderdome. Eric Coudray and Voutilainen Create the Most Impressive Triple Axis Tourbillon Ever.
When you combine the names MB&f, Eric Coudray and Kari Voutilainen in one project the result is simply out of this world. The new MB&F Legacy Machine Thunderdome is the first-ever collaboration between legends Eric Coudray and Kari Voutilainen and the birth of a totally new proprietary ‘TriAx’ tourbillon mechanism that features 3 axes revolving at different speeds and on different planes, in record-breaking 8 seconds, 12 seconds and 20 seconds. Additionally, the Legacy Machine Thunderdome offers the first-ever combination of Potter escapement, hemispherical balance, and helical hairspring.
Insider: Jacob & Co. Brilliant Flying Tourbillon Tsavorites. An 18-Piece Limited Edition.
Measuring 47 mm in diameter and 14.65 mm in thickness, the Jacob & Co. Brilliant Flying Tourbillon Tsavorites is cased in 18K yellow gold with an invisible gem-set of 170 baguette tsavorites with a total weight of 12.10 carats. Tsavorite is the trade name used to refer for the emerald-green variety of a grossular garnet that comes from Africa. Tsavorite has become one of the most popular and expensive garnets, due to its rarity.
Eye Candy: Ferdinand Berthoud Chronomètre FB1.2 and FB1.3. Stunning Watch Making as Exclusive as it Gets.
The Ferdinand Berthoud Chronomètre FB1.2 and FB1.3 are in-house Fusée-Chain Chronometers equipped with a tourbillon. Featuring 44 mm octagonal cases with watertight openings —that allow for lateral view of the movement—, the Chronomètre Ferdinand Berthoud FB 1 is powered by a manual wound movement composed of no less than 1,120 components. Both watches are available in a highly exclusive limited edition of 50 pieces each with close to a quarter million dollars price tag.
Experience: Visiting the HYT Manufature in Neuchâtel. The Compound for the Hydromechanical Horologists and Preciflex.
Located in the northern shore of Lake Neuchâtel and flanked by the Jura Mountains, Neuchâtel is the home to many watch manufactures including Panerai, Zenith and HYT watches. Just 15 minutes away by train from the city of Biel/Bienne, Neuchâtel is also home to spectacular vineyards, Switzerland’s largest bird watching paradise and decadent fish cuisine straight from its glacier water lake. Housed inside the Preciflex headquarters, the HYT Manufacture feels more like some sort of secret technology lab rather than your typical watch manufacture. Preciflex develops, industrializes and manufactures disruptive micro- and meso-fluidic devices with the purpose of indicating, injecting, diffusing or managing power. They target industries such as watchmaking, medical devices, interior design objects, cosmetics and automotive. Their expertise offers new solutions in the areas of micro mechanics, fluid mechanics, chemistry, electronics and optics.
News: Introducing the Ressence Type 1DXB in Collaboration with Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons
Ressence, the Belgian watch company that keeps challenging the status quo of mechanical watchmaking, in close collaboration with Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons, the UAE’s leading retailer of luxury watches and jewelry, is excited to announce the release of the Type 1 DXB —a limited edition of the Type 1 Squared. The new Ressence in collaboration with Seddiqi is limited to 19 pieces and draws inspiration from Arabic geometric patterns, believed to unveil the underlying reality to the viewer. This traditional design composes with natural light and creates a unique shadow play. It is an Arabic take on skeleton dials.
Rare Bird: Voutilainen Vingt-8. A Perfect Example of the Hand Mastery of Kari Voutilainen.
Kari Voutilainen was born in Finland in 1962 and has a passionate interest in horology spanning thirty years. He completed his initial watchmaker’s training at the world-renowned watchmaking school of Tapiola in Finland. He first came to Switzerland in 1989 to attend the International Watchmaking School, where he completed the WOSTEP complicated watch course, a post-graduate course for those watchmakers dedicated to the restoration of complicated, high-quality rare watches. He was quickly spotted by Parmigiani Mesure et Art du Temps, where over the following ten years he was at the center of the restoration work of some of the world’s rarest pieces as well as the creation of new and original ‘one-off’ pieces.
News: Introducing the Armin Strom Gravity Equal Force. The First Piece in the New System 78 Collection.
The Armin Strom Gravity Equal Force is the newest watch demonstrating an Armin Strom core principle: always be innovating. This watch takes the traditional mainspring barrel and turns it on its head by adding a stop-work declutch mechanism combined with automatic winding to create consistent power delivery to the balance. With a bold redesign of the movement, dial, and case, Gravity Equal Force marks the launch of the new System 78 Collection, highlighting innovative watchmaking at a competitive price. As a guiding principle, every watch that comes from the Armin Strom manufacture must include an innovation. The inspiration behind Gravity Equal Force was a desire to transmit equal force to the balance, thereby increasing the consistency of rate.
News: Introducing the MB&F Legacy Machine 101 Palladium. An 18-Piece Limited Edition in 'Vert d'eau' Color.
The MB&F Legacy Machine 101 may be the most classic Legacy Machine, focusing on the essence of a mechanical wristwatch —hence the ‘101’ name— it is no less a Machine of firsts. When it was launched back in 2014, it housed the very first movement developed entirely in-house by MB&F. Today, the LM101 series inaugurates our very first piece in palladium, a rare silvery-white metal similar to platinum. And finally, the new palladium edition gets another first: a brand new color for the sunray dial plate, which varies between pale blue and green —a color best described in French as “vert d’eau”— sea green or aquamarine in English.
News: Introducing the Vacheron Constantin Dual Time and Ladies Quartz Overseas with Black Lacquered Dial
The Overseas collection treats itself to a total black look. Two new timepieces are available in a black lacquered dial beautifully framed by the shimmering gleam of the steel case. Launched in 2018, the Overseas dual time model equipped with the 5110 DT automatic Manufacture movement enables simultaneous reading of two time zones, complete with date and day/night indication. The Overseas Lady quartz appears with diamonds on its bezel to light up the path of its hands, while the date is displayed at 3 o'clock. Following the Overseas Chronograph and the Overseas Automatic black dial success, the novelties unveiled today enrich the black dials references, highly sought after by collectors.
