Announcing the GPHG 2018 Finalists (inc. our predictions)
As every year, the watchmaking industry is celebrating creativity and ingenuity with the?Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve?(GPHG) or the so-called Oscars of the Watchmaking Industry – see the report for the 2017 edition here. The most advanced, the most innovative or the most creative timepieces will be awarded prizes at the GPHG 2018. Before the ceremony takes place (November 9, 2018),?we're bringing you, hot off the press, the complete list of finalists selected by the Jury. Only six watches remain in each of the twelve categories (however, with some new ones this year) and here they are – and also our predictions for each category.LadiesWomen's watches comprising the following indications only: hours, minutes, seconds, date, power reserve, classic moon phase; may be adorned with a maximum of 8-carats’ worth of gemstones. Bovet 1822 Amadeo Fleurier 39 Fan Bvlgari Lvcea Tubogas Skeleton Chanel Boy-Friend Skeleton Chaumet Laurier Moritz Grossmann Tefnut Twist Classic

Buying Guide - The Best GMT/Traveller's Watches of Baselworld 2018
GMT Watches… How not to look at this specific category when the star of the show this year, at Baselworld 2018, featured such a complication. You name it: the GMT Pepsi Steel. Yet, that was not the only Traveller’s watch to be introduced during the fair. In fact, we’ve seen some pretty interesting new offers. Here are 7 very different watches, from an elegant Patek to an ultra-robust Oris, but all with the same purpose: displaying multiple time-zones.Breitling Navitimer 8 B35 Automatic UnitimeIf the in-house B01 chronograph?is the collection’s flagship, the new Navitimer 8 line-up comprises anther cool watch, with a world-time function. Good point with this piece is that, due to its usually rather clean and simple style, the addition of such a complex display keeps the design of the watch understated and functional. The central part remains plain while the periphery of the dial on this?Breitling Navitimer 8 B35 Automatic Unitime receives the traditional 24H an

Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Hybris Artistica Calibre 945
Jaeger-LeCoultre has long invested in highly complicated celestial complications. Over the years, we’ve seen many extremely appealing, complex and rather artistic expressions of watches displaying sideral time or star maps. Today, as part of the collection presented for Watches & Wonders Geneva 2022, the brand reinterprets one of its most fascinating movements, the Calibre 945, a minute repeater with Cosmotourbillon and celestial complications, with two new watches that display the brand’s mastery of decorative crafts. Here are the two new Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Hybris Artistica Calibre 945.Launched in 2010, the Calibre 945 is one of the most complex movements in Jaeger-LeCoultre’s extensive portfolio. This high-end movement unites a sky chart with a celestial vault, a zodiacal calendar and a minute repeater and is further elevated by Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Cosmotourbillon – a celestial flying tourbillon that not only serves as a regulating organ but also

Vacheron Constantin Historiques Triple Calendrier 1942 - Review (Specs & Price)
In a piece of news that dropped on our computers a couple of weeks ago, Vacheron Constantin announced several new “Historiques” watches. As a reminder, this collection comprises the deliberately “vintage-inspired” models of the brand, including the American 1921 or the Chronograph Cornes de Vaches. With the?Vacheron Constantin Historiques Triple Calendrier 1942, saying that we’ve been impressed is something of an understatement. Beautifully designed, balanced, with heritage and pedigree, and all of that in an “accessible” (relatively speaking) steel case. It is now time to experience this?Triple Calendrier 1942 in the metal.The initiating piece, the vintage?Triple Calendar Ref. 4240When it comes to the “Historiques” collection at Vacheron Constantin, nothing emerges from scratch and there’s always a source of inspiration behind these pieces. Without describing it as a copy-pasting process here, the new?Vacheron Constantin Hist

Vacheron Constantin Metiers d'Art 'Angel Watch' - Hands-on - Monochrome-Watches
When you look at Vacheron Constantin’s collections, one is clearly apart from the rest, a range of very high end watches that are not showing the horological capacities of the manufacture but some?ornamental skills: the Metiers d’Art. In traditional watchmaking, Metiers d’Art watches (that stands for artistic workmanship) consist in bringing all of the finest aesthetic competencies in a single watch. It can include enameling, engraving, gem-setting or marquetry. To explain you what is the Vacheron Constantin Metiers d’Art?collection, we get our hands on with one of the nicest example, the ‘Angel Watch’.Enameled, engraved or guilloche dials are quite usual in Haute Horlogerie, even if they required highly qualified crafters. We already show you several examples of enameled dial, such as the milky white Sarpaneva Emali or the translucent Julien Coudray. Same goes for the hand-engraving technique such as used by Konstatin Chaykin in the Carpe Diem. But