Four stand-out artisanal watchmakers we've seen at Geneva Watch Week
As advocates of the whole mechanical watchmaking industry, sharing the passion for watches on a daily basis, even we sometimes discover truly fascinating new people, brands and watches. We've always had a devotion to bringing you the best in the business, and this includes providing a podium to the smallest of the small. We're madly enthusiastic about people dedicating their entire life to painstakingly creating what they believe is the best possible watch. And in true artisanal watchmaking, that means by hand, all alone or with a very small team, and with tremendous amounts of patience. During the recent Geneva Watch Week, we got up close with four such watches by small independent makers, often working solo. Some familiar faces, and some entirely new, but all of them equally fascinating and astounding to behold.Earlier this year published three Sunday stories (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) where we listed some of the best independent watchmakers outside of Switzerland. In a sense, today's

5 Cool Finds - 5 Robust and Bold Sports Luxury Chronographs to consider - Monochrome Watches
To follow with last week’s article, we continue our 5 Cool Finds selections, still with our trustful partner?Chronext. We already explained to you all about this London-based?online marketplace for buying, selling, and servicing of luxury watches - and here, online goes together with the same?security and service as any high-end boutique. What about the 5 Cool Finds? Simple: 5 watches, not new, not vintage, most of the time young-timers (that we believe are?the new trend) that we selected for you. Today, we go?for something highly masculine: a selection of 5 cool, luxurious and robust sports chronographs?that will definitely look great on the beach, on a boat, on a racing track or for your most active passions.The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore certainly is the best definition of a robust luxury chronograph Ad - Scroll to continue with article This wee

Hautlence Vortex Bronze - Extreme High-End goes Bronze as well - Live Photos, Specs and Price - Monochrome Watches
Over the last five years the use of bronze as material for watches has become quite a popular thing, and although not necessarily a commonplace, we see more bronze watches today than ever before. Bronze has found its way into almost every price segment; however it’s mainly used for?sports watches. Hautlence thinks otherwise, and actually, we wouldn’t expect anything else from them! The brand that makes a point of ‘crossing the line’ now comes with their most complex timepiece in a bronze case, and it looks just brilliant! Here’s the Hautlence Vortex Bronze.?The use of bronze…Bronze has gained in popularity since the introduction of the Panerai Bronzo PAM382, back in 2011. This wasn’t the first watch in bronze; however it was the one that ignited the interest from collectors, and subsequently that from other?brands. Before Panerai came with the much-famed Bronzo, there was the Gerald Genta Gefica (Gefica Chronographe in 1995) and later, in 2008,

Introducing The Titanium Big Pilot's Watch IWC Racing Works
The name Pilot’s Watch at IWC has long meant more than just watches made for military purposes. In fact, it also stands for the long-standing connection of IWC to motorsport. After entering a partnership with Mercedes-AMG in 2004, IWC became the official engineering partner of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1?Team in 2013 and established its own classic racing team, IWC Racing, in 2018. There’s even a connection with Hot Wheels and Goodwood. To pay tribute to this motorsport passion, IWC releases the reference IW501019, an “IWC Racing Works”?limited edition based on the real Big Pilot (yes, the big one) with a?grade 5 titanium case.?Apart from the launch of a new edition of the Big Pilot – and yes, we mean by that the real deal, with an oversized case, and dial with power reserve and date, not the streamlined and smaller BP43 – which is always something to praise, there are a few things with this new model to tickle the interest of hardcore fans of the m

Louis Vuitton Tambour Spin Time Air Quantum - Hands-On, Price
Not all of you might know that, in addition to its core collection mostly made of Tambour watches, such as the recently introduced Tambour Street Diver, LV also owns the right to be called a high-end watch manufacture, thanks to its integrated structure La Fabrique du Temps. With it, the luxury giant and maker of all kinds of high-end goods can produce fine and complex in-house movements, such as the Tambour Spin Time Air and its floating display. Now, the watchmaking division of LV, which has recently hired Jean Arnault, the youngest son of LVMH’s owner Bernard Arnault, is presenting a bold and (literally) luminous watch that might give an idea of where it’s heading. Let’s discover the new Louis Vuitton Tambour Spin Time Air Quantum.Watches certainly aren’t the core business of Louis Vuitton. Neither they are a point of entry to the brand. Yet, the brand has long worked on making traditional luxury watches – mostly under the Tambour collection, which will