Buying Guide: Six Openworked Luxury Sports Watches That Pull Back The Covers
In every Buying Guide, we like to group together a set of watches around a common theme, a shared feature or even with similar functions. That can be anything from watches intended for diving, using a fresh new colour or perhaps sharing the occasion of being presented during the same fair. When we were putting together today’s list, we initially wanted to show all sorts of skeletonized or openworked watches but somehow we ended up with six skeletonized or openworked luxury sports watches instead. Hey, we’re not complaining one bit, as these are some of the very best out there, based on some of the coolest and most iconic luxury sports watches. Let’s not dwell on that any further and kick things off with the Daddy of the luxury sports watch genre!Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Jumbo Extra-Thin Openworked 16204STThe Audemars Piguet Royal Oak is the archetypical luxury sports watch, of course, penned by the late, great Gerald Genta in 1976. In recent times the popularity of t

Patek Philippe Grande et Petite Sonnerie 6301P
Chiming watches are some of the most desirable marvels that watchmaking has ever produced. They can assume multiple forms, such as alarm watches or minute repeaters. But when it comes to watches that strike the time, that “musically indicate” the time, the rarest, most exclusive, most impressive and most desirable is the grande sonnerie. Only a handful of watchmakers are capable of manufacturing such a complication, which strikes the time “au passage” and not on demand. Today, Patek Philippe presents a new model, deceptively simple yet utterly complex. Meet the Grande et Petite Sonnerie 6301P.Background, Repeating & Grande Sonnerie Watches at PatekThe grande sonnerie and petite sonnerie hold a special place in the world of Haute Horlogerie. There is only a handful of watchmakers capable of manufacturing such works of arts, often regarded as the ultimate horological complication. Both the grande and petite sonnerie strike the hours and quarters in passing, th

Hublot Key of Time - Marcus Unique Piece - Monochrome Watches
Imagine a timepiece that indicates time at the speed of your desire. Just because. That timepiece is Hublot’s second Masterpiece MP-02, the Key of Time.?Of course the Key of Time also indicates time as we know it, but additionally it allows for speeding up the time by 4 times or to slow it down 4 times. The basic idea is that you can enjoy certain moment longer or make other moment pass by faster. Conceptually it’s an interesting?idea… however technically it’s a very complex?masterpiece. Ad - Scroll to continue with article Originally the idea was conceived by Matthias Buttet when he was still at the helm of BNB Concept, before they filed for bankruptcy. Immediately after?BNB went down (a result of non-paying customers), Hublot’s Jean-Claude Biver took over part of the machinery and 30 of their best watchmakers. ?And shortly after t

Hands-on with the De Bethune DB28GS - De Bethune's Newest Sports Watch - Monochrome Watches
De Bethune is known for its groundbreaking technological innovations – the company holds a number of patents – and also for its quite remarkable design. Both the technical aspects, as wel as the aesthetics, can be seen as an eclectic mix of classic Haute Horlogerie and state-of-art futuristic mechanics. Style-wise they probably lean more towards classic and certainly cannot be called sporty. That is, until now. De Bethune now introduces the DB28GS, the sporty one of the collection.In the world of proper high-end watches, there are simply just a handful of sports watches. The vast majority of real high-end watches are either classic dress watches or feature one, two or more complications. And let us immediately make clear that a Panerai or IWC with an in-house movement is?certainly a beautiful watch, however in our book it’s no ‘haute de gamme’, as the French call it. So what De Bethune introduces here is in more than one way a rare timepiece. A true high-e

Cuervo y Sobrinos Historiador Retr¨®grado Cobalt Blue
Cuervo y Sobrinos, the Swiss brand with Cuban roots, welcomes another member to its growing Historiador collection. One of the brand's most popular collections, the stylized case of the Historiador takes its profile from an original Cuervo y Sobrinos model from the 1950s. In the past year or so, we've seen the Historiador Peque?os Segundos (small seconds), a chronograph version of the Historiador with a restored Landeron calibre, a Flameante version with a “flaming” salmon dial and even a Luna Negra edition with a full calendar and moon phases. The latest Historiador is the Retr¨®grado model with a retrograde date display. Accompanying the retrograde date are a power reserve display at 6 o'clock and an unusual date display on two scales directly opposite the date.Havana moodWe recently covered the brand's remarkable history that started life in Havana in 1882 and resuscitated in the late 1990s. Cuervos y Sobrinos is all about recreating the Golden Days of La Habana in the 19