Buying Guide: Watches & Wonders Reafirmed The Popularity Of Luxury Sports Watches
Although we saw plenty of very cool and innovative watches, it’s hard to ignore the continuing popularity of the luxury sports watch. With iconic entries like the Royal Oak and Nautilus still being very hard to obtain – both for their premium prices and limited supply – we’re always happy to spot alternatives. From indie brands to mainstream names and haute-horlogerie manufacturers, these six novelties presented during Watches & Wonders reaffirm the ongoing appeal of a good luxury sports watch.Czapek Antarctique RevelationOne of our favourite independent watchmakers, Czapek, has been playing around with its super sleek Antarctique recently, with the Revelation being the latest creation. This model completely opens up the automatic micro-rotor movement for the world to see. The modern construction of the skeletonised movement fits the shaped case perfectly, with the indices placed on the tinted sapphire crystal minute track. It comes on a brushed and polished

Only Watch 2019 - Patek Philippe 6300A Unique Steel Grandmaster Chime
Here it is… The multi-million watch, potential record-breaker as the most expensive watch to be auctioned by Only Watch – remember the 5208T from 2017 (sold for CHF 6,200,000) and the 5016A from 2015 (sold for CHF 7,300,000)? What you’re looking at here is a unique example of an extremely rare piece, Patek’s most complicated wristwatch ever, the Ref. 6300, direct descendant of the Grandmaster Chime, but with a stainless steel case and a salmon dial… All the ingredients for a frenzied auction! Meet the Patek Philippe 6300A for Only Watch 2019.?We all know that Patek Philippe ALWAYS donates impressive pieces to Only Watch… Watches with Grande Complication stature like the tourbillon minute repeater perpetual calendar in steel, or the minute repeater chronograph perpetual calendar in titanium. For Only Watch 2019, Patek goes even further in exclusivity, by taking its most complex watch (ref. 6300G) in the collection – only a handful of these watch

Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Small Model 36mm (Specs & Price)
Gentlemen, one of the main issues we, as watch aficionados, face nowadays is that we often find our?watches strapped on lovely feminine wrists rather than on our?own. And despite the fact that we intrinsically?love it (but will never?admit?it), there has to be a solution that works for?both our beloved ladies and ourselves. What if finally, we have?found a watch that we, men, could steal from our wives? Or simply a watch made for both genders and that brings back this simple pleasure of having a small (relatively speaking) watch on the wrist. The new?Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Small Model 36mm might be this solution.No so long ago, a dress watch had to be 34mm / 36mm. It used to be a rule, a certain sense?of elegance, a respect for natural proportions, which seems to have been rather forgotten. It is not so unusual these days to see dress watches (and by that I mean in their purest essence) with cases of 40mm or more. I have personally come to the point where I can objectively write

Jenny Watches may be a Brand youve Never Heard of, but it's left a Significant Mark on Dive Watch History - Monochrome Watches
We've covered many Doxa SUB dive watches over the years, including the Limited Edition Doxa Mission 31 SUB Professional and Doxa SUB 300 Searambler Silver Lung' Reissue. Founded in 1889 in Le Locle, Switzerland by Georges Ducommun, Doxa has a storied history that started with an 8-day watch movement in 1908 for car and plane dashboards. However, it was the Doxa Sub, introduced in 1966, that led to the company's current reputation as a dive watch specialist. Doxa, however, has a sister brand, JENNY Watches (pronounced as yen-ny), that produced dive watches from day one. Let's take a closer look at Jenny Watches, the relatively unknown brand that beat all of the major players to 1,000 metres of depth over 50 years ago.Old vs. new – The modern Jenny Caribbean 300 and the vintage Jenny Caribbean 700.Established in 1963 as JENNY & Cie S.A. in Lengnau, Switzerland (by Paul G. Jenny, son of original company founder Gustav Jenny), it was the first brand to produce a 1,000-metre water

Oris Aquis Date Calibre 400 41.5mm (Specs & Price)
The Aquis is, without doubt, one of the most accomplished and acclaimed collections by Oris. A modern, robust and well-equipped dive watch, it has long been available with an outsourced automatic movement by Sellita. Yet, Oris had different plans and recently introduced a manufacture movement to offer watch enthusiasts more power, higher accuracy, more reliability and magnetic resistance. This engine, the Calibre 400, was first introduced in late 2020 into the larger 43.5mm edition of the Aquis. And now, for 2021, it finds its way in a more compact edition of this watch inside the Aquis Date Calibre 400 41.5mm Collection, in three different colours.At first, not much appears to have changed with these new models. The Aquis Date remains almost identical visually. A watch that has been in the collection for many years, it was revamped in 2017 with a slightly more refined and modernised design. Originally offered in a relatively large case of 43.5mm, followed by a 39.5mm edition, last yea