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A. Lange & Sohne Richard Lange Minute Repeater - Review, Price
Touted by Anthony de Haas, director of product development at A. Lange & Sohne, as the “absolute technical highlight” of Watches & Wonders 2022, the Richard Lange Minute Repeater is a case study in classicism and understatement. A far cry from the extravagance of Lange's Grand Complication of 2013 with its profusion of complications and from the 2015 Zeitwerk (decimal) Minute Repeater with jumping digital hours and minutes, the brand's latest chiming watch is a pure minute repeater sans the distraction of any additional complications. According to de Haas, the Richard Lange Minute Repeater is “a classical minute repeater but (made) to today's standards.” The classical personality of the watch is consolidated by the elegantly proportioned white enamel dial and the modest 39mm diameter of the platinum case; the modernity is conferred by several upgrades to protect and enhance the minute repeater mechanism integrated into the brand’s new calibre L122.
Hands-On - Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Chronograph Openworked Black Ceramic ref. 26343CE (Specs & Price)
This year, at the SIHH 2018, Audemars Piguet unveiled a host of novelties. If the Extra-Thin 15202IP in titanium and platinum stole our hearts, and if there was a strong focus on ladies’ watches – see the?Double Balance Wheel Openworked 37mm Frosted Gold or the?Millenary Frosted Gold Opal Dial – there was clearly more to please us. This includes the?Royal Oak Tourbillon Chronograph Openworked Reference?26343CE, the first time this complex and powerful watch is cased in black ceramic.This new version of the?Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Chronograph Openworked once again demonstrates the expertise of the Le Brassus brand when it comes to the use of ceramics. AP already showed such mastery with the?Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar?26579CE, the first all-ceramic watch (bracelet included) of the brand – and when you have the chance of wearing this watch on your wrist, you understand what expertise means. The execution is simply brilliant. While not really a new wa
Breitling to Leave Baselworld 2020, Tudor to Have its Own Booth - Monochrome Watches
Baselworld has been through difficult times recently, drawing criticism and seeing more than half of the exhibiting brands leaving the show. The main announcement was, of course, when Nick Hayek decided that the whole Swatch Group was leaving the 2019 Edition – which we now know to be a definitive decision. While the 2019 edition was certainly better than some expected, the situation remains uncertain for the show, which sees yet another big brand leaving Baselworld 2020: Breitling.In a press release sent earlier this morning, Breitling, in the words of its CEO Georges Kern, explains that the brand will “concentrate on (its) global Summit format with subsequent local roadshows in 2020“. The main reason for leaving Baselworld has to do with the new timing of the show, which will now occur just after the SIHH, from 30 April to 5 May 2020 – dates that “cannot be reconciled with our scheduling,” says Kern. The new format allows for more flexibility and p
Video: The Ulysse Nardin Freak, the watch that broke all conventions
The other day, we went to Switzerland to film one of the most important and influential watchmakers of the last few decades. It’s not a name that is on everyone’s tongue, but it actually should. Let’s look at this objectively… A watchmaker who created the most complex astronomical watches in times when computer-aided designing and calculations were not widely available. A watchmaker who created a watch that is like no other, that indicates hours with a main spring barrel that rotates once per 12 hours and the entire calibre is an in-line movement that hovers over the main spring barrel and rotates once every hour. However, it is important to mention that the latter was the very first watch to use silicon in its escapement. I’m talking about Ludwig Oechslin and the Ulysse Nardin Freak.Now I could go on about Ulysse Nardin’s Trilogy of Time, however, we didn’t go to film those masterpieces. Yes, these three watches (hence the trilogy) were incred
Introducing The TAG Heuer Carrera Tourbillon H02T Dubai Skyline
At the 2023 Dubai Watch Week, TAG Heuer reveals a new watch dedicated to the event’s host city, a Carrera Tourbillon H02T in a black PVD titanium case with carbon tachymeter fixed bezel and distinctive decorative elements, setting this limited series apart. While it is yet another rendition of the watch that made waves in 2016, bearing a sticker price below EUR 20k, the TAG Heuer Carrera Tourbillon H02T Dubai Skyline is worthy of a look as it retains its avant-garde appeal and impressive specs.With skeletonization and a 45mm blackened Carrera case, coupled with the use of carbon and dark ink-blue accents on the indices and sub-dials counter rings, the Carrera Heuer 02T Dubai Edition is designed as a cutting-edge sports watch, lightweight and with 100m water resistance, with a unique allure. The anthracite dial has an outer flange featuring a second/minute track. For chronograph functions, activated by pushers at 2 and 4 o’clock (with a blue joint matching other coloured ele
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