2020 Cartier Prive Tank Asymetrique (Specs & Price)
From its rich jeweller-watchmaker tradition, the French Maison Cartier has built an unrivalled legacy in creating fascinating shaped watches.?Since 2017, the Cartier Prive collection highlights the design of some of the brand's legendary models. Unlike the 1998-2008 Collection Privee Cartier Paris (a.k.a CPCP), which was characterized by strict codes (uniform guilloche dials and Roman numerals, with Cartier Paris logo and a rosette, burgundy straps, etc), the new Cartier Prive collection leaves more scope for creativity and variations. After the Crash, the Tank Cintree and the Tonneau, it is time for the Tank Asymetrique to be reinterpreted.The 1930s were a period of intense creativity for Cartier. With Art Deco, wristwatches came in a multitude of geometric forms.?The iconic Tank theme underwent numerous variations. Among these, the unapologetically elegant Tank Asymetrique, which was known at the time as the Parallelogramme or Losange. Created in 1936, the model stands out with its o

Introducing The Combat-Ready Ikepod Seapod Camo Pixel
Ikepod was founded in 1994 by entrepreneur Oliver Ike and influential designer Marc Newson, the name behind three Atmos clocks for Jaeger-LeCoultre and Ikepod’s cult pod-shaped UFO watches that caught the eye of designers, artists and architects worldwide. Although Ikepod had a bumpy financial ride, it was revitalised in 2018 to attract a new generation with great design and aggressive prices. The Seapod, Ikepod’s diver, surfaces again with a combat-ready Camo Pixel dial that will speak to gamers and veterans above the waves and at depths of 200 metres.Camo PixelUsed by animals to blend into the environment and survive attacks from predators, camouflage crossed over into the military to keep soldiers and their kit protected from enemy fire, even at close quarters. Camo pixel, used for the first time by the military in 2005, is composed of pixelated patterns in different sizes and colours. Although pixellated camouflage was abandoned by the U.S. Army in 2019, the visually di

SIHH 2018 - Karl-Friedrich Scheufele of Ferdinand Berthoud, On The New Collection - Monochrome Watches
It's Day 2 of the SIHH, and we've already had a very busy morning. By now, you would have seen our video with Davide Cerrato, Manging Director of Montblanc Watches, talking us through the 2018 Montblanc collection. If you missed it, you can find it here. Now, we're turning the spotlight on one of the smaller, but no less impressive, brands at SIHH; Ferdinand Berthoud. In this video, Karl-Friedrich Scheufele (co-CEO of Chopard) tells us a little about the history of the brand, how it came to be and what the focus of this year's collection is.?If you're not familiar with the name already, Ferdinand Berthoud was an extremely talented Master Clockmaker in the mid-18th century. More than that, however, he also had the strong desire to be a scientist and to convey his knowledge of watch and clock-making to a wider audience. In pursuit of this goal, he wrote several essays, treatises and books, whilst also continuing to create clocks and pocket watches, with a particular focus on Marine Chron

Hands-On - IWC Pilot Chronograph 41 TOP GUN Ceratanium IW388106
This year is the year of the TOP GUN family at IWC Schaffhausen. A concept born in 2007 with the?Pilot's Watch Double Chronograph IW379901 Black Ceramic, the TOP GUN range is all about its technical look, stealthy design and use of innovative materials for the case. For Watches & Wonders 2022, in addition to the coloured ceramic models – white Lake Tahoe and green Woodland – IWC is bringing a little brother to one of our all-time favourite models, the Double Chronograph TOP GUN Ceratanium. Smaller, slightly simpler but sharing the same ultra-cool design, here’s the new IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph 41 TOP GUN Ceratanium IW388106.?As an ode to one of the most famous fighter schools in the world – we’ve all seen the movie, and the second instalment is due in a couple of months – IWC created a sub-range in its pilot’s watch collection that is as powerful and technical as the Miramar-based United States Navy Fighter Weapons School. From t

Introducing: The Powerful Nivada Depthmaster Pac-Man now in Bronze
Nivada Grenchen was something of a secret among seasoned collectors of instrument dive watches from the 1950s and 1960s, but with ever-increasing exposure on specialised websites, you could say that the cat is out of the bag. Founded in 1926, Nivada Grenchen produced its first waterproof automatic watch in 1950 – the Antarctic – that was put to the test by members of the U.S. Navy during the Deep Freeze 1 expedition to the South Pole in 1955-1956. Taking waterproofness to the next level, Nivada introduced the record-breaking 1,000m water-resistant Depthmaster model in 1965, an impressively robust tool watch that blew contemporary rivals out of the water. Unable to fathom the quartz deluge, Nivada sunk into oblivion in the late 1970s but was refloated and launched re-editions of its famous divers, the Chronomaster Aviator Sea Diver and Depthmaster, in 2020. The latest addition is a very handsome bronze version of the Depthmaster with a black ceramic bezel insert and Pac-Man