Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 15500 vs Jumbo 15202 // Review
The Royal Oak… A watch that needs no introduction anymore, a watch that’s so iconic that its popularity goes way beyond the confines of watch aficionados. However, if you look at Audemars Piguet’s catalogue, you’ll see that the collection is large (to say the least) and that it comprises dozens of versions. But today, we’ll focus on the two most important models, the cornerstones of the collection, the automatic watches. This includes the new 41mm Selfwinding Royal Oak 15500… But we can’t overlook the icon, the Royal Oak “Jumbo” Extra-Thin 15202. How do they compare? Follow the guide below.The Royal Oak – the creation of a new category1972 is probably Audemars Piguet‘s most important year in its recent history. A crucial turning point. For several decades, the brand specialized in crafting some of the most delicate and precious watches of Switzerland – especially perpetual calendars and repeaters. Still, as the qua

2021 Tudor Black Bay Chrono Panda 79360N - Specs & Price
Anniversaries are worth celebrating, and for 2021 Tudor is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its first chronograph watches. In honour of that occasion, Tudor is relaunching the Black Bay Chronograph with a panda or reverse panda dial and other discreet tweaks, mostly on the bezel. A total of six new references are launched, all with striking light/dark contrasting dials. Here's the new Tudor Black Bay Chrono.Ever since the Tudor Oysterdate chronograph was introduced in 1970, the sports chronograph has been important to the brand. It has been a predominant collection for Tudor, evidenced by the Oysterdate Chronograph 7031 and 7032 as well as the Montecarlo 7149, 7159 and 7169. Even after the company’s rebirth, the Chronograph complication has played a major part in its success. Ad - Scroll to continue with article The Black Bay collection is a very import

Hublot Spirit Of Big Bang Meca-10 // Introducing, Specs & Price
Hublot is certainly most known for its luxury sports watches with shaped cases, fusion of material and integrated straps. There is, however, another collection at Hublot that we somehow tend to overlook, a collection of shaped watches, with a barrel-like case, the Spirit Of Big Bang. Part of the 2020 novelties presented in Dubai, Hublot introduced its 10-day power reserve movement in this collection with the Spirit Of Big Bang Meca-10.This combination is a first for Hublot. Indeed, for the first time the Spirit Of Big Bang,?a collection that is gaining importance at Hublot, is receiving the popular Meca-10 manufacture calibre. Why only now…? Well, since the Spirit Of Big Bang has a shaped case, encasing the Meca-10 movement required some important adaptations on the movement to make it shaped just like the case of this watch. Behind this watch lies the wish of Hublot to have harmony between cases and movements, meaning that the mechanics should follo

Introducing a new IWC Portuguese Automatic Edition BJIFF 2015 with a striking Panda dial - A Future Collectable - Monochrome Watches
Last Friday we told you about the new IWC Ingenieur Automatic Edition Laureus, with a very nice blue dial. Today we can show you yet another limited edition that we just need to tell you about. Why? Well, because of the dial. The new IWC?Portuguese Automatic Edition BJIFF 2015 (which stands for Beijing International Film Festival 2015) has a so-called panda dial and it?looks just so incredibly good. Limited to just 50 pieces, so again one that will become very collectible.First a bit of history. Back in 1996 IWC introduced the Portuguese Rattrapante, which was the first of the (than new) IWC Portuguese Chronograph collection. First to be introduced were a platinum version with a silver/white dial and a white gold version with a black dial and white sub dials. The latter had the so-called inverse panda dial, which later also appeared in the “regular” Portuguese Chronograph in stainless steel. In 2007 IWC introduced a limited edition for the Japanese market, with a proper pan

The IWC Ingenieur Double Chronograph - Split Second Timing - Monochrome Watches
The inaugural race of the 2013 Formula One season took place at Albert Park, Melbourne on the 17th March 2013. It looks like it is going to be another exceedingly competitive year, where success or failure, can come down to a few fractions of a second.?A rain-soaked qualifying session on the Saturday was prematurely curtailed. The track was water-logged and confined the cars to the pit-lane for the bulk of the scheduled qualifying session.?Unusually, the balance of the qualifying took place on the morning of the race. Drivers would trade tenths of a second to gain a prominent location on the starting grid. The two front row positions were decided by less than half of a second, remarkable when you consider a lap is 3.295 miles.Competitive advantage can be determined by the smallest of margins. Teams expend many man-hours in the relentless pursuit of superior performance. Exhaustive tests take place in the wind tunnel to optimise the trade-off between downforce and drag. Space age materi