The 2022 Audemars Piguet Ceramic Complication Watches
Audemars Piguet has long demonstrated its ability to break the rules of classic haute horlogerie, using traditional complications and high-end, hand-finished movements of the highest level and encasing them in bold, polarising watches with a genuine contemporary approach to design. Today, the Le Brassus-based manufacturer presents a new collection that pushes the concept even further, using coloured ceramics to create contrast and to emphasise their bold designs. From a full-blue ceramic RO Perpetual Calendar to a futuristic green-toned ROC and no fewer than three different highly complex Code 11.59 models, they all show impressive modernity and yet respect for the high-end watchmaking we’ve come to love.?The Full-Blue Ceramic Royal Oak Perpetual CalendarThe first in line in this new sub-collection of high-end ceramic watches is a bold one. A truly surprising and polarising watch with an unmistakable colour. Indeed, Audemars Piguet presents a new version of its Royal Oak Perpetua

Caviar Makes an Interesting Addition to your iPhone (Sort Of) - A Skeletonized Watch Movement on your Phone Case - Monochrome Watches
The Omega Point is a theory - not a retail location. It is succinctly postulated by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin by the notion that everything that rises must converge.? Those of us old enough to remember the way that mechanical watchmaking had to pull itself up out of the wreckage of the quartz-age are also well aware of how mechanical watchmaking has to fight for relevance on the manifold fronts presented by the digital age. In a time when you use a phone to take a picture, why not use a phone to tell time too? Now, we have connected watches that look like watches (sort of) but act like smartphones. Perhaps the currents lifting both the digital revolution and the mechanical revolution are putting them on a collision course? TAG Heuer produced a series of Android-based phones. Ulysse Nardin produced a phone powered by a mechanical oscillator. Why even Kari Voutilainen produced a series of dials (just dials mind you - not functioning watches) for some random Chinese smartphone maker (no,

Three Amazing Cars Up For Auction At The Goodwood Revival Sale
As summer draws to an end, so comes to an end the season of car events and auction weekends. One of the latest in the year, but also one of the very best, is the Goodwood Revival that’s running this very weekend. Three days of the most amazing classic road and race cars tackling the historical Goodwood circuit in West Sussex, England. With drivers pushing their cars to the limit, and sometimes beyond, it is one of the most open and pleasurable motoring experiences you can attend. Naturally, with such an event gathering the finest cars in history, some will be offered up for auction, looking to find a new caretaker. Orchestrated by Bonhams, this year’s Goodwood Revival Sale brings together 107 cars from all corners of the world. The list includes iconic machines from Bugatti, Ferrari, Jaguar, Bentley, Lancia and many others. Limiting ourselves to three cars only, we’ve picked the headlining Porsche Carrera RSR, the purest-as-can-be Land Rover Series I and arguably Japa

Introducing the Autumn 2014 collection by JeanRichard - Monochrome-Watches
For those who are not already aware, JeanRichard is the ‘affordable proposition’ of the Kering Group, meaning the luxury group that owns the impressive Girard-Perregaux, the jeweler Boucheron and, since a few weeks, Ulysse Nardin. With a collection focussed on sports watches with?a strong and distinctive design, the brand is growing in the heart of collectors and known for its interesting value for money ratio. For this end of summer, JeanRichard is introducing a new collection, inspired by the warm and natural colours of autumn.The JeanRichard 1681 Chestnut Brown PVDThe 1681 is JeanRichard’s?finest proposition. It comes with an interesting in-house calibre developed inside the manufacture Sowind, in the same plant where the movements of Girard-Perregaux?are produced. It is however an exclusive engine that is used only by JeanRichard. The Calibre JR1000 is a modern self-winding movement that ticks at 4hz (28.800vph) and that boasts 48 hours of power reserve. It may be

First look: Vacheron Constantin Tourbillon Chronograph Collection Excellence Platine
Unveiled in 2020, the Traditionnelle Tourbillon Chronograph was a spectacular showcase of Vacheron Constantin’s dexterity in combining a monopusher chronograph and tourbillon complication with a twist, thanks to its unconventional layout. Now considered a classic, Vacheron has inducted the Traditionnelle into its hall of fame to become a member of the Excellence Platine club. Crafted in precious 950 platinum, the 50-piece limited edition is destined to become a sought-after collector’s piece.The Excellence Platine is Vacheron Constantin’s creme de la creme collection, originally created as a platform to release new benchmark models from the Maison. Broadening its horizons, the collection also welcomed emblematic timepieces. The common denominator for all the limited-edition members of this exclusive club is platinum. From the cases to the crown and from the sandblasted dial to the Maltese cross-shaped clasp, platinum is king. Even the stitching on the strap is made of