A. Lange & Sohne Richard Lange Jumping Seconds White Gold and Black Dial (Specs & Price)
Packed with historical references, bold aesthetics, spectacular mechanics and uncompromising quality, the new white gold iteration of the Richard Lange Jumping Seconds with its black dial is a watch you won't forget. A watch that honours the past but looks undeniably contemporary, the Richard Lange Jumping Seconds marries the tradition of scientific observation watches cultivated in Dresden with the spectacle of jumping seconds on the dial powered by a movement bolstered by constant force escapement, stop seconds, a zero-reset mechanism and an end-of-power indication.BackgroundThe Richard Lange collection was introduced in 2006 and named after F.A. Lange's son who inherited his father's scientific bent and would go on to patent 27 inventions. The mission behind the Richard Lange collection was to reconnect with the scientific observation timepieces for which Dresden (and Lange) would become famous. As observation watches, precision and the best possible legibility have always been at t

First Look: The Hublot MP-10 Tourbillon Weight Energy System Titanium
The Hublot MP series is a collection of masterpieces characterized by their disruptive and highly technical take on Haute Horlogerie. The latest chapter in this story, initiated in 2011, is the Hublot Big Bang MP-10 Weight Energy System Titanium. Visually arresting and technically complex, this limited edition timepiece is powered by a movement displaying the hours and minutes on rollers, the seconds on an inclined tourbillon cage and the power reserve on a third roller. Its automatic winding system consists of two gold masses sliding on rails on either side of the movement. Overall, a highly impressive concept watch.?Overtly technical and disruptive in their appearance, Hublot Masterpieces look nothing like a traditional Swiss wristwatch. The latest member of this club changes the classic circular layout of a watch case and its display. Like the MP-05 La Ferrari (and its 50-day power reserve movement), the Hublot MP-10 uses rollers that provide a practical, intuitive digital time indi

Perry and his Nomos Tangente Sport Datum 531 - Monochrome Watches
The attraction, the reasons that drive us towards a certain kind of watch, the lack of rationale behind the love for a timepiece and then the hunt for THAT special one. Behind most watch acquisitions there's a story, a motivation to go for one particular version and not another, subjective factors that explain why one is drawn to a specific brand, and very often contradictions come into the equation. Today's instalment of The Collector's Series is all about that. At first,?Perry would have imagined Nomos to be his last choice, for reasons he'll explain. But still, he'll try (very) hard for that Tangente Sport Datum 531 to become his next purchase. And here's why.What drew you to Nomos as a brand to begin with? Ad - Scroll to continue with article I feel that Nomos is simply one of the coolest companies around. To my knowledge, they are one of the only fully inde

The Grand Seiko T0 Constant-force Tourbillon
Today, we’re not going to talk about watches. We’re going to talk about watchmaking, in the purest sense of the word. Today, it’s all about a movement, not yet a timepiece – this will certainly come in a few weeks/months. And what a movement it is. Today, Grand Seiko climbs up the complications ladder with a leap as it introduces the Grand Seiko T0 Constant-Force Tourbillon, which is the brand’s first-ever tourbillon movement equipped with a world-first constant force mechanism. Quite something, indeed.When you think Grand Seiko, you might think robust, finely executed automatic calibres or even hi-beat movements. Altogether, nothing to complain about – at all – as the idea was to provide solid specifications and reliability on a daily basis. Fine watchmaking, for sure, but not high horology. In a way, Grand Seiko is (was…) the Japanese equivalent of or Omega. However, recently, the brand demonstrated that it might have a couple of new

Old School - Girard-Perregaux's first Quartz - Monochrome Watches
Your mechanical watch? Obsolete, thing of the past, just trade it in for a nice new quartz watch and you will always be on time! Right now this sounds like an absurd proposition, especially to most watch collectors and connoisseurs, but in the early 1970's it was reality.Although Seiko was the first company to introduce a commercially produced quartz wristwatch on the market, the battle was still on in Switzerland for the position of runner up. Surprisingly it was not the Beta 21 joint venture (that included, amongst others, Omega, , Piaget and Patek Philippe), but Girard-Perregaux that was first. Ad - Scroll to continue with article Girard-Perregaux developed the movement in house, but with the help of some outside companies and experts. In the mid 1960's Georges Vuffray, an electronics expert, was contracted to develop a quartz clock that later was miniaturiz