Designing Time with Creativity and Haute Horlogery: Part 2 - CABESTAN - Monochrome Watches
Yesterday we have shown you a magnificent timepiece, the 4N-MVT01 (see article here), a watch with a truly innovative display, consisting of 10 rotating discs. To continue this series of articles, we want to present you another striking way to display the time, here with drums integrated directly in the movement. The Cabestan Terra Luna offers not only a spectacular dial but also an outstanding piece of horological art, which we are proud to make you discover. Cabestan makes the Time rollCabestan is not a new actor in the market of Haute Horlogery. Whereas the CEO of the brand just changed a few months ago, the watchmaking team remains built around Eric Coudray, one of the geniuses of the industry, previously part of the Jaeger-LeCoultre team and inventor of the Gyrotourbillon! We are naming some serious references indeed and rightfully so, because the Cabestan Terra-Luna is an extremely impressive timepiece. It is a complicated and innovative timepiece with a very interesting way to d

Buying Guide - 10 Cool Chronographs of Baselworld 2018
After our Top Ten countdown of?the best Dive watches, the best GMT watches and the best Tourbillon watches of Baselworld 2018, it’s time to focus on one of the most important and popular categories:?chronographs. This edition of the Basel Watch Fair proved, yet again, that the chronograph can be morphed into any style: elegant, sporty, modern, vintage, affordable, exclusive. So here is our eclectic selection of the Ten coolest chronographs introduced at Baselworld 2018.Bell & Ross?BR 03-94 R.S.18 – The Most Racing-OrientedThe new year means a new Formula 1 season, and that means new Renault F1-inspired watches for Bell & Ross. After the R.S.16 and the R.S.17 watches, it’s now time for the R.S.18 collection. And what’s better than a chronograph to celebrate racing… The new?Bell & Ross?BR 03-94 R.S.18 is again a bold, colourful watch, with various F1 design elements (carbon fibre dial, Renault F1 yellow accents, tachymeter scale) but the concept

In-Depth - A Guide to the Depth Gauge Watches
If scuba diving is a popular recreational sport, it is a dangerous activity that needs to be properly prepared and monitored. If a diver ascends too quickly, this can lead to decompression illness that can be painful and life-threatening. As depth increases the physiological effects become greater. A reliable dive watch and a depth gauge are essential pieces of diving gear designed to monitor depth and track the duration of an underwater adventure. Both variables are needed to use decompression tables. Traditionally, divers used a dive watch and a depth gauge to calculate decompression time at given depths. Although many divers today choose to dive with a computer, some still use a mechanical depth gauge, even if only as backup.The 1960s Favre Leuba Bathy 160 was one of the first wristwatches to incorporate a mechanical depth gauge. It could register depths of up to 160 feetA handful of manufacturers have developed watches incorporating a mechanical depth gauge, starting with Favre-Leu

Introducing Patek Philippe 5470P 1/10th Second Monopusher Chronograph
If Patek Philippe is known for its elegant, superbly executed watches, the brand also has strong expertise in research and development, incarnated mostly by its Advance Research program. Today, just after Watches and Wonders, Patek unveils an entirely new and impressive chronograph, the first dedicated to the field of short-time measurement and precision. We talk here about a manually wound movement with two separate chronograph mechanisms and sweep hands, with a high-frequency and tenths-of-a-second display. And that comes with no fewer than 31 patents (7 of which are exclusive to this watch)… Sporty and novel design-wise and mechanically-speaking, meet the new Patek Philippe 5470P-001 1/10th Second Monopusher Chronograph.Chronographs are certainly a thing at Patek, which has been crafting these measurement instruments since 1856. Around 1930-31, the brand developed its first pocket watch with a tenth-of-a-second chronograph, which can now be seen at the Museum. Today, the brand

The Tudor Black Bay Fifty-Eight 39mm Face-to-Face with the 41mm Version - Monochrome Watches
As we explained when Tudor introduced its latest vision of a vintage-inspired dive watch, the?Black Bay Fifty-Eight 39mm, internal competition is getting stronger than ever… BB41mm or BB58? Tough choice! To shed some light on the situation, we have staged a face-off between the Black Bay 41mm and the?Black Bay Fifty-Eight 39mm and arm?you with all the details to help you choose between what are, obviously, two great watches.Background – the Black Bay conceptThe Tudor Black Bay was?born in 2012, as the second step in Tudor’s revival era – one year after the Heritage Chrono and the same year as the Pelagos – under the Philippe Peverelli/Davide Cerrato management tandem. The Black Bay clearly redefined the brand, repositioned the collection, made the brand sexy again and put it back on the road to success. The Black Bay was – and still is – the brand’s best seller and will remain the milestone of Tudor’s recent history.The three versio