Bamford London Commando GMT and Predator GMT - Introducing, Price
George Bamford is best known for customizing (officially authorized) watches from heavyweights like Zenith, and Patek Philippe via his company, Bamford Watch Department. His latest watch brand, Bamford London, has been building watches from scratch for a couple of years now and had an unusual start. There are now two main collections with several variants and collaborations, and they exist alongside his famous customizations of outside brands. The Commando GMT and Predator GMT add new colourways to the existing GMT line, but the changes are visually striking. Let's take a closer look.?A customizer firstIt all started with a Daytona George received on his 18th birthday. A bit dismayed that many at a dinner party had the same watch, he decided to customize his Daytona with a DLC (Diamond-Like Carbon) coating via the family business. The silver steel was now stark black and became an instant attention-getter. While vacationing in the south of France, he ended up with 25 orders before

Hands-On: The Salmon Art-Deco Cartier Tank Americaine in Platinum
The name Tank at Cartier means far more than just a watch… It’s an entire range of watches, all distinguished by some design elements first defined by the so-called Tank Normale of 1917. From there, the collection expanded to dozens of designs, such as the Tank Louis Cartier, the Cintree, the Fran?aise and the Asymetrique, just to name a few. In 2023, Cartier relaunched the Tank Americaine, a Tank watch with an elongated and curved rectangular case, first introduced in 1989. The return was made with ultra-classic versions in steel or gold, with white dials. But some months ago, without making much noise about it, the brand unveiled a pair of precious versions with Art-Deco sector dials, including this handsome platinum-salmon version.?The Tank Americaine might not be the most popular model in the brand’s collection – the Louis Cartier holds the title. It’s also a watch that can, in a way, easily be confused with the Tank Cintree. But it shouldn’t. De

Second-Hand Can No Longer Be Ignored By Watch Brands - Monochrome Watches
With the development of e-commerce and as the trend for vintage watches consolidates, the market for second-hand luxury watches is growing fast. A survey by the Boston Consulting Group published in September 2020 reveals that “the market for secondhand hard luxury items – primarily watches and jewellery – is worth about €21 billion worldwide and growing at 8% a year, faster than the luxury industry overall”. Industry players, in particular luxury watch brands, can no longer ignore pre-owned.Originally restricted to auction houses, pawnbrokers and a few watch dealers, the second-hand luxury watch market has transformed dramatically over the past few years. It has become much more acceptable, and even cool to wear pre-owned watches. There are savings to be made, there is a growing emphasis on sustainability, and second-hand can be a way to obtain sought-after models and track down rare, elusive models. Ad - Scroll to continue with article

Hands-On - Ulysse Nardin Freak NeXt - A New Concept with Revolutionary 3D Flying Oscillator
Compliant mechanisms are flexible mechanisms that transfer an input force or displacement to another point through elastic body deformation. Covered in detail here, they offer huge innovation potential for mechanical watchmaking. Further proof of this revolution can be found in the latest version of the Ulysse Nardin Freak. Packed with innovative applications of flexible parts, the Freak NeXt features a revolutionary flying oscillator whose tridimensional architecture is based on flexible silicon blades. Meet the latest model in a long lineage of innovative watches, the Ulysse Nardin Freak NeXt. And if it is still a concept watch for now, it might make it into production in the very near future.Here, we are dealing with the very essence of watchmaking and chronometry. The invention of the hairspring (17th?century, by Robert Hooke / Christiaan Huygens) dramatically increased the accuracy of watches. A thin coiled spring attached to the balance wheel allowed it to oscillate back and fort

First Look: The new Citizen Tsuyosa 37mm Automatic Collection
First presented in 2022, inspired by a popular model from the late 1990s (even though its design screams 1980s), the Citizen Tsuyosa instantly became a hit. And for obvious reasons… With its trendy design playing on the vibe of elegant sports watches, its vibrant and fun colours, its solid automatic movement and a rather unbeatable price, considering we’re talking about a venerable integrated manufacture, the recipe proved very successful. Now, the watch that has taken its name from the word for strength in Japanese will become slightly less strong. Indeed, we’re here to talk about the much anticipated reduced version, the new Citizen Tsuyosa 37mm.?The now famous 40mm Citizen TsuyosaWith this collection presented about 3 years ago, Citizen once again demonstrated being one of the most prolific watch brands in the disputed segment of entry-level mechanical models… We’ve seen this recently with the Urban Military NJ0190 Series or the Mechanical Day/Date NY40