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

Top 50 Swiss Watch Brands of 2020 Market Share - Editorial
2020 has been a difficult year for the Swiss watch industry, and for the entire luxury market. As we reported recently, the industry has had to face its steepest decline since 2009, with exports plummeting 21.8% in value, below the level of 2011. Certainly, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on the watch industry. However, there was more than just a decline in sales in 2020. As always with a crisis, there will be losers and winners, brands that will collapse and brands that will emerge from the situation even stronger. Thanks to a detailed analysis of the Swiss watch market published by Morgan Stanley Research, in collaboration with Oliver Muller/LuxeConsult, we can now take a closer and more comprehensive look at what really happened in 2020 Increased polarisation, premiumisation, strong resistance of privately owned brands, detailed figures regarding the top 50 Swiss watch brands per market share and turnover and the continuous overperformance (not to say hegemony) of . H

Hands-On With The Splendid Parmigiani Tonda PF Micro-Rotor In Platinum
Introduced in 2021, the?Tonda PF collection accomplished two missions: one was to celebrate the brand’s 25th?anniversary and the distinguished career of master watchmaker and founder Michel Parmigiani; the second was more long-term and designed to mark the new roadmap for the watch brand under CEO?Guido Terreni. Positioned as the brand’s luxury sports watch with integrated bracelet, the Tonda PF is as classy as they come. During Watches & Wonders 2023, Parmigiani Fleurier unveiled its Tonda PF Micro-Rotor dressed from head to toe – case, bracelet, dial, bezel and rotor – in 950 platinum. With its sober, monochrome aesthetics, deliberate minimalism and slim profile, the Tonda PF Micro-Rotor is, in our eyes, the essence of sophistication and understatement.The BackstoryThe Tonda PF luxury sports watch collection is rooted in the classic ultra-slim Tonda dress watch collection designed by Michel Parmigiani. In a departure from many high-testosterone luxury spor

Arnold & Son Adds the Time Pyramid to Its Instrument Collection - Monochrome Watches
Arnold and Son flies the Union Jack with pride, continuing a British watch making tradition that goes back to John Arnold (1736-1799) and his son John Roger Arnold (1769-1843). The company supplied marine chronometers to the Royal Navy for navigating longitude. The Instrument Collection, which boasts the Time Pyramid among others, harkens to the past, but recasts this past in innovative interpretations. The Time Pyramid is the latest addition.A magician never reveals his secrets is the answer given at every elementary aged birthday party where the magician is the event's top billing. Disappearing coin – just a wave of the hand. Guess the card - a touch of the card to the forehead. Rabbit out of the hat - a tap of the wand and Presto. Children's Ah, Wow, Cool is followed by How did he do that? The first look at the Time Pyramid elicits this same question, but instead of the magician's code of silence, Arnold & Son lets us peek. We get to see inside this watch, but it still loo

Introducing the Omega Seamaster Bullhead Chronograph Edition Rio 2016 (specs & price) - Monochrome-Watches
As you may know, Omega Watches has been the official timekeeper of the Olympic Games since 1932 (except a few exceptions). As one of their greatest achievement and an important partnership, which the brand is hugely proud off and shows this with several limited editions, like the?Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Sochi 2014. Recently, they came with their first watch paying tribute to the 2016 Olympic Games that will take place in Rio – a watch based on the Speedy Mark II – and now Omega is introducing?another limited edition, this time based on one of their most provocative models. Here is the?Omega Seamaster Bullhead Chronograph Edition Rio 2016.Let’s first have a look at previous limited editions created by Omega Watches and dedicated to the Olympic Games:The Omega Seamaster 1948 Co-Axial London 2012 Limited Edition, a vintage-inspired watch that pays tribute to?the very first Seamaster launched during the London Olympics of 1948The?Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Sochi 20