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Introducing new Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph - SIHH 2017
I think we can all agree that the fastest?way to ruin an iconic watch is by completely?redesigning it. It seems that Audemars Piguet subscribes to this idea too and in fact has gone as far as to print it?out in massive letters and put it?everywhere in the design department. Don’t change the Royal Oak, it will only?end in tears and with a final result that is nowhere near as good at what you started with. Still, the market is a sucker for novelties and some fresh air is needed, from time to time. With this in mind,?Audemars Piguet introduces the Refreshed?Royal Oak Chronograph at the SIHH 2017. No?major changes of course, just some tiny little updates?to make it even more?appealing, including a?two-tone dial design.Overall, we’re talking 7 new versions of the?Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph; four versions in pink gold which are available on a matching, pink gold bracelet or an alligator strap and three versions in steel?fitted with stainless steel bracelets. The choice
News: IWC Presents An Individualisation Service for the Portugieser Chronograph
Mechanical watches have long lost their status as essential instruments, becoming emotional items that can say a lot about the owner. It’s all about the passion, the romantic feel to have a mechanical object rather than looking at the time on a phone… For this reason, the customisation of watches, the ability to create a watch that perfectly suits your style and values, has become a big thing. We’ve seen such individualisation programs in the past, from relatively confidential brands – think about Armin Strom?– or accessible brands – like Certina. But today, it’s a mainstream luxury brand of an unprecedented scale that comes with such a concept, as IWC presents a customization program to create your personal version of the Portugieser Chronograph IW3716. But with limited availability so far.?Only available from its flagship boutiques at the Dubai Mall and Shanghai Taikoo Hui Mall, the individualisation service for the Portugieser Chronograph is
Tudor North Flag M91210N (Live Photos, Specs & Price)
When it comes to Tudor Watch, everybody knows and talks about the Black Bay – and in all fairness, rightfully so, as most BB editions deserve to be loved, especially the latest GMT or Fifty Eight versions. Yet, Tudor has other collections and there is a watch, which we believe deserves revisiting. One that is more important than you might think at first. Its name is the?Tudor North Flag and today we take a closer look at this underestimated, underrated watch.The Tudor North Flag isn’t a novelty – it was presented at Baselworld 2015 – and this is exactly why it is interesting to take a look back at this watch now that we’ve had time to understand what it meant for the brand and where it comes from. We’ve had time to digest this new watch and to look at it more objectively, not influenced by the reactions of our first impressions. Believe it or not, the North Flag is an important watch in Tudor’s history – just like the Black Bay was back i
The Petrolhead Corner: Toyota Wins The 2025 Dakar Rally
It’s a tradition at the start of every year that the world’s best and most ambitious adventurers on two and four wheels trek to the Saudi Arabian desert. The venue is the famous Dakar Rally, the most gruelling off-road endurance race on the calendar. While no longer a contest starting in Paris and finishing in Dakar, it remains the ultimate test of man and machine. Last year’s winners, Audi, are no longer running, but new challengers have entered the Cars category: Dacia & Ford! This year proved to be a very close fight, with first and second place overall finishing within less than 4 minutes of each other! Here’s all you need to know about the 2025 edition of the Dakar Rally.The 2025 edition of the Dakar rally consisted of 14 days of competition, with a 48-hour “Chrono” marathon stage as the ultimate challenge. The riders had to navigate a total of more than 8,000 kilometres, of which 5,000 were in the form of specials, across the most treachero
Introducing: The Ultra-Cool Tissot PRX Powermatic 80 Ice-Blue Now in 35mm
It’s no secret we’re fans of the Tissot PRX Powermatic 80 (and its chronograph brother for that matter) as it is genuinely one of the best value-for-money watches in recent years. It looks cool, comes in many appealing variations, and since recently been available in a long-awaited smaller case size of 35mm. What started as a set of four new references in the new diameter, with black, blue, green or white mother-of-pearl dials, is now expanded with a fifth new reference. To complete the set, Tissot now adds the sub-zero cool ice-blue variant to its collection.With the launch of the new 35mm size, Tissot listened to the demands of the public for a smaller mechanical variation of the PRX. arguably, the 40mm size was already very, very good and proved extremely popular, there were plenty of people who simply felt it was too big. We’ve gone over the differences in size and proportions before, so we won’t bore you with it again and go straight into detail, as this ne
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