Buying Guide: 5 Watches With Truly Audacious Case Designs
Considering how time is indicated on most watches – hands rotating 360-degree around the dial – it is no surprise that the vast majority of timepieces available on the market have round cases. But there is always room for creativity, originality and audacity. Watches don’t have to be round to be either striking or elegant. Shaped watches have been around for ages and designers have long questioned the norm of the round watch and display. With this in mind, we’ve recently seen a surge of oddly, originally shaped watches, driven by a clear rise in popularity of Cartier, also known as the master of shapes. Here are 5 watches that look at case design in a different way.?Anoma A1 First SeriesA newcomer to the accessible watchmaking scene, Anoma stroke hard for its inaugural release, with a case that’s both extremely original and yet supremely elegant. Named the A1 Watch, this oddly shaped triangular model, inspired by a 1950s table by French architect, designer

Breaking Watches & Wonders 2020 Geneva Cancelled Due to COVID-19 Coronavirus
Watches & Wonders 2020, the new version of the Geneva-based watch fair held by the FHH, previously named SIHH, is the latest in the growing list of events cancelled, postponed or relocated across the globe amid fears of a possible COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic.The Geneva watch fair is one of the largest watch events around the world, together with Baselworld. The tradeshow is organized by FHH (Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie). For its 30th edition, the SIHH (Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie) had changed its name and programming, rebranded as Watches & Wonders for 2020 and beyond. 31 exhibiting brands were announced for this year's edition. These include 10 Richemont brands such as Cartier, Jaeger-Lecoultre or IWC, but also Kering's brands Ulysse Nardin and Girard-Perregaux, Hermes and independent watchmakers such as Parmigiani Fleurier, MB&F and H. Moser & Cie. In 2019, the event attracted over 23,000 visitors including 1,400 journalists and 3,000 public visi

Pre SIHH 2015: The new IWC Portofino Hand-Wound Pure Classic - Monochrome Watches
Shortly before Christmas, and also shortly before the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie starts. This means that we get to show you more novelties, and today we get to show you the newest IWC Portofino Hand-Wound Pure Classic: a?classically styled, hand-wound, dress watch. Although that might sound boring for some, we suggest to take a closer look because it’s an IWC, and there some typical IWC ingredients as well.IWC’s Portofino collection?is a clean, simple and lovely balanced collection. No loud colours, no crazy design. However the size of pretty much all models in this collection was quite… manly. The diameter of most all models are?42mm or 45mm,?except?the Portofino Automatic that measures a modest 40mm in diameter. Just a few months ago IWC added no less than?20 new models?of more discrete dimensions?that comprise both Portofino Automatic models (40mm) and a new mid-size models that measure 36mm. The newest addition to the collection is the IWC Portofin

The new 2014 Omega Seamaster 300 Re-edition - what it really looks like - Monochrome Watches
Remember a few days ago, Omega was teasing us with pictures that looked like a re-issue of the Seamaster 300. We've played with Photoshop and gave you our thoughts on what it could look like. Today, Omega presented a video that shows a more precise image of the future model that will be presented coming Wednesday at Baselworld 2014. And we were close to the reality!Let’s have a look at the neo-vintage Omega Seamaster 300.The video shows many details of the new watch. First, and what relieves us, is to know that it will exist in several versions, such as two-tones Steel/Gold and full steel. So lets talk details and see which details we got correct in our preview: The new SM300 will have a straight lugs case (no protection guard and symmetric design) A bracelet with mirror polished centre links and brushed external links, which looks like the bracelet of the Aqua Terra and the Speedmaster ’57. The bracelet features the new buckle with fine adjustment - similar to that you can

Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Hybris Mechanica Calibre 185
To celebrate the 90th anniversary of the company's most iconic model, which was born in 1931 as a fairly simple watch, Jaeger-LeCoultre is, for Watches & Wonders 2021, announcing the Reverso Hybris Mechanica Calibre 185 Quadriptyque (Calibre 185 for brevity), an uber-complication limited to ten pieces in 18k white gold. The Calibre 185 is the world's first four-faced watch, and simultaneously the most complicated Reverso ever manufactured, comprising 11 complications, including a perpetual calendar, minute repeater, and indications of the synodic, draconic, and anomalistic cycles. And the list goes onThe Complicated Reverso over the yearsThe history of the complicated Reverso has its roots in 1991, in the 500-piece limited edition Soixantieme that commemorated the Reverso's 60th anniversary. The Soixantieme brought with it a larger case size known as the grande taille and was, more importantly, the very first Reverso to be outfitted with complications. Five more complicated Reverso