Pre Baselworld 2015: Introducing the Breitling Chronoliner - Monochrome Watches
There are few companies in the watch industry that have the impact Breitling has. It is a well-known fact among watch?aficionados?that the company might be solely responsible for creating the shape and form of the chronograph wristwatch as we know it today. In parallel the name of the company is clearly interlinked with the world of aviation, and the new Breitling Chronoliner, a chronometer-certified chronograph to measure flight times, having a second timezone display in 24-hour mode to juggle time differences around the planet, proves exactly that.A Short History Lesson.Breitling was founded in 1884 in Saint-Imier, in the Bernese Jura, by Leon Breitling, and right from the start, they specialized in chronographs. After a few years, in 1915 the company introduced the first wrist-chronograph watch (all functions controlled by the crown), while in 1923 it perfected this design by separating the stop/start function from that of the resetting (combination of crown and a single pusher at 2

Hands-On with The IWC Tribute to Pallweber Edition 150 years Steel/Blue Dial IW505003 (SIHH 2018) - Specs & Price
Prior to the SIHH 2018, back in December, IWC introduced a series of 4 watches, including one very surprising watch. A stand-alone piece, not included in any of the existing collections, the IWC Tribute to Pallweber is a watch specifically created for the 150th Anniversary of the Schaffhausen-based brand. This re-edition of one of the greatest pocket-watches IWC ever made is now available in steel, still with the same?digital hours and minute display.The Tribute to Pallweber is a completely original watch, a vintage reedition, not of a famed 1960s piece but based on one of the most iconic pocket-watches ever manufactured by IWC, the?Pallweber. This 1884 piece showed a fascinating display based on a digital indication of both the hours and minutes - a first back then. Developed in 1884 and based on the Pallweber system developed by a Salzburg-based watchmaker, Josef Pallweber, it showed the hours and minutes with large numerals on rotating discs. Ad - Scroll to continue with

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

Girard-Perregaux Casquette 2.0 Limited Edition - Hands-On Review, Price
The 1970s was a decade of revolutions. As far as watches are concerned, it is the period of the advent of the quartz watch, which had a major impact on the industry. If you are a fan of mechanical watches, you might think that it wasn't for the good Indeed, the popularity of the new, accurate quartz watches plunged the Swiss watch industry in a deep crisis. Still, quartz watches were a technological breakthrough, allowing to produce watches that were cheaper and more accurate than anything else before. It also gave birth to striking designs with new looks, forms and functionalities. Among these is the 1976 Girard-Perregaux Casquette and its driver-type LED display. Nearly half a century later, this emblematic creation is back. Meet the Girard-Perregaux Casquette 2.0.The race to develop quartz watchesThe 1960s and 1970s were an era of rapid advancements in technology and the advent of electronics sparked a revolution in watchmaking. The first electric wristwatch was presented in 1957 by

Oris Divers Sixty-Five Fratello Limited Edition
As you might have guessed from its name, the now very well-established?Oris Divers Sixty-Five was inspired by a watch created back in… 1965. A classic skin diver model, with recreational divers in mind, it has since its comeback been made in countless editions, colours and sizes. But there’s more than just the original (and rather quirky) model. Proof; the latest limited edition created by our friends of Fratello in collaboration with Oris. This time, they have looked back at a later edition from 1968, which might have quite some historical importance too… Meet the new Oris Divers Sixty-Five Fratello Limited Edition.Behind the successful Divers Sixty-Five collection is the resurrection of a specific model born in 1965, this dive watch with a compact case, slim profile and cool, original dial with trapezoidal markers. A watch that has been later derived in a multitude of editions, with larger or smaller cases, in steel, in bronze (or even in both), and importantly with