A Record Three REVOLUTION Awards For The Swatch Group
Since its inception in 2005, REVOLUTION has honoured the very best of the watch world with its annual awards round-up. Every year, the eagerly anticipated REVOLUTION Awards presents in a range of...
View ArticlePlanets On Your Wrist: Van Cleef & Arpels Midnight Planétarium Poetic...
The poet William Blake (he of the tiger-immolating predilections and phobia of symmetry) opened “Auguries of Innocence” with a four-line stanza that all of us are familiar with via the osmotic...
View ArticlePoetic Traveller: Here and There with the Van Cleef & Arpels Heure d’ici &...
For all its prosaic utility, the second-time-zone complication is a remarkably romantic function. On the surface, it is what it is: an indication of the time in a different location in the world, which...
View ArticleTop 10 Watches To Make Up For Missing Valentine’s Day
Let’s face it — you’re here because you forgot Valentine’s Day and are currently feeling an uncomfortable kinship with the proverbial frog in a pot (rather alarmingly already at level “onsen”). Never...
View ArticleHublot Launches Official Timepiece For World Cup With Charity Fundraiser
At first glance, one might think that the world of fine watchmaking and the world of football share precious little in common. One is a sport that is distinguished by its universality and...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Jacob & Co Looks To The Sky With The Astronomia Tourbillon (VIDEO)
We have more on this complicated beauty in our upcoming issues of REVOLUTION Switzerland, UK and USA. Look out for it, or check back here for an exclusive hands on video when we see the watch at Basel....
View ArticleFirst Look At Bulgari’s Stunning New L’Ammiraglio Del Tempo [VIDEO]
For some absurd reason, there are some people who still don’t think of Bulgari as being a company that produces technical watches. This is despite the fact that they have created — with the aid of...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: First Look At The URWERK UR-105M (Live Photos)
It’s hard to believe that the UR-103 was released over 10 years ago. Yes — for those of you still mired in denial about how terrifyingly fast the last decade has gone by — it was 2003 when we first saw...
View ArticleThe New MB&F LM101 (LIVE PHOTOS)
If there’s one thing that MB&F positively excel at doing, it’s forcing people to re-examine their ideas of timekeeping and timekeepers. Looking at the new MB&F Legacy Machine 101 (LM101) is...
View ArticleBlancpain Debuts New Fifty Fathoms Watch Alongside Environmental Initiative
The story of the Fifty Fathoms and Blancpain’s love affair with the oceans begins in 1953. Unlike a great number of contemporary dive watches, which are sea-worthy only in name, the Fifty Fathoms was...
View ArticlePre SIHH: Cartier Introduces The Crash Skeleton Limited Edition With Shaped...
There are several pieces of apocrypha circulating about the genesis of the Cartier Crash. By some accounts, it was inspired by a watch that a Cartier London customer had brought in for servicing, a...
View ArticleCelebrating 10 Years Of MB&F With The HMX (Analysis + Specs + Price)
“We’ve come a long, long way together. Through the hard times and the good. I have to celebrate you, baby. I have to praise you like I should.” — Praise You, Fatboy Slim After 10 years, you start to...
View ArticleAt The Eye Of The Vortex: What The New Hautlence Watch Reveals About The Brand
The Hautlence HL2 is one of those watches you don’t forget. The HL2 was launched in 2011 — the first of Hautlence’s Concepts d’Exception (as they name their very top-tiered products). This is pretty...
View ArticleJaeger-LeCoultre’s Special Edition For Singapore’s 50th Anniversary
Who doesn’t enjoy a big old birthday party? (Rhetorical question, but just in case you really really need to know, the short answer to that is, “No one worth inviting”.) Singapore — that tiny little...
View ArticleExclusive New Complication Revealed For Vacheron Constantin Grand Oeuvre
There are about one and a half billion ethnic Chinese on this planet. I didn’t take a census or anything, I just Googled it. Out of these one and a half billion Chinese people, I’d say that less than a...
View ArticleWhy The New URWERK UR-106 Lotus Is Not A Ladies’ Watch
The URWERK UR-106 is not a ladies’ watch. Remember this, if you ever have the pleasure of encountering the UR-106 personally. It is beautiful, it is elegant, it is graceful and intelligent and it is...
View ArticleEverything Same, Everything Different. How Well Do You Know The New IWC...
There are two types of change — one is the change you make because you have to and the second is the change you make because you want to. It’s a good rule of thumb to hold that the second kind is...
View ArticleCelebrating The Future With A Unique IWC Portugieser
We’ve been waiting for this watch for a very long time. Well, in a sense I guess you could say we’ve been waiting for it for 10 years, but you know what I mean. What we’re looking at right now is a...
View ArticleCan We Please Stop Talking About How Complicated The Vacheron Constantin Ref....
I’m going to come right out and say it — I don’t care about how many complications the new Vacheron Constantin pocket watch ref. 57260 has, and neither should you. The bottom line is, we all agree that...
View ArticleNaturally Sweet — The New Lange 1815 Watch In Honey Gold
I like yellow gold. I know this is not a popular choice by any means, but I’m not going to apologise for it or anything. There is something about the unabashed richness of the hue in question that I...
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