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WW2024
The watch manufactures attending this year’s watch fair in Geneva presented us with some absolute horological masterpieces. Vacheron Constantin launched the world’s most complicated watch with 63 complications (including the first Chinese perpetual calendar), Piaget the world’s thinnest tourbillon watch and Rolex, at 322 grams, certainly the heaviest diver’s…
Before considering the best green dial watches of 2024 thus far, let’s start with some context. Historians have long defined different eras through time frames containing common characteristics. In the watch world, to give an obvious example, you could say…
Despite its roots as Thierry Hermès’ Parisian saddlery workshop for fine harnesses, Hermès has bloomed into a brand with cult status (Birkin bag, anyone?) during the last 187 years. However, it has always maintained its focus on craftsmanship along the…
It’s the one we’ve all been waiting for: today, several new watches are emerging from the Rolex manufacture. Rolex’s 2024 lineup is giving a contemporary spin to its iconic models, mixing materials, colours, and textures to inject freshness into its…
Rolex’s ever-popular Oyster Perpetual GMT-Master II is enjoying an update at this year’s Watches and Wonders fair, with two new editions joining the collection. The two Oystersteel novelties feature a 24-hour graduated two-colour Cerachrom bezel insert in grey and black…
Every year, the new products of certain manufactures are eagerly awaited and discussed. This also goes for the new watches to emerge from Patek Philippe, for example. As for this year, some of these launches could be found on Instagram…
At this year’s Watches & Wonders, Tudor is presenting new variations of its Black Bay series, which first launched in 2012 and has been equipped with a manufacture movement since 2016. The new additions include a GMT model, a Black…
The IWC Portugieser‘s origins go back a long way to the 1930s – longer than you would perhaps expect. Over the course of the Portugieser’s existence, IWC Schaffhausen has brought many small incremental upgrades, with today being no different during…
Over at A. Lange & Söhne, this year’s Watches & Wonders highlight is unmissable. Last year, a huge model of the Odysseus Chronograph was installed at the Saxon manufacture’s stand. This year, it is now a 50-fold enlargement of the…
On the occasion of Watches & Wonders 2024, TAG Heuer is presenting the Carrera Chronograph Panda. The Carrera has been around since 1963 and celebrated its 60th birthday last year. We are now seeing a new variant with a Panda…
With its cushion-shaped case, the Monaco from TAG Heuer is an icon among racing-inspired watches. On the occasion of Watches & Wonders 2024, the LVMH brand is presenting two new models with a unique design and split-seconds chronograph. The TAG…
The new Roger Dubuis Orbis in Machina departs from the conventional architecture with hands from the centre. Instead, the watchmakers have placed a tourbillon in the centre, from which the time displays wind hierarchically around the dial in stages. “Orbis”…