Events: The GMT Watch Safari, A Week of Experiences to Discover Swiss Watchmaking
To celebrate their 24th anniversary, our colleagues at GMT Magazine are organising an exclusive watch experience for 24 lucky watch enthusiasts, from October 27 to November 1, 2024, in Switzerland. This meticulously curated tour will offer a behind-the-scenes look into the heart of Switzerland’s legendary watchmaking industry. From Geneva to the historic Jura Mountains, and from Biel to Schaffhausen, the watch Safari tour promises a unique experience of horological discovery and craftsmanship.Throughout this week of discovery, participants will experience the thrill of discovery, much like a safari in the wild. It will be the chance to uncover exquisite watches, witness exceptional craftsmanship, workshops and enjoy tastings along with exclusive meetings with CEOs of various prestigious watch Maisons. Ad - Scroll to continue with article Each stop on the j

Hands-on: The New Salmon Dial Chopard Alpine Eagle XPS
Chopard introduced the Alpine Eagle collection in 2019 to compete in the growing segment of luxury sports watches with integrated bracelets. A modern interpretation of Chopard’s St. Moritz line from the 1980s, the Alpine Eagle, viewed by many as an attempt to create a genuine alternative to Royal Oak and Nautilus, became an essential part of Chopard’s offer as the collection has grown and is now an array of references in different sizes, materials and includes a flyback chronograph, a flying tourbillon, and a watch with a high-frequency (57,600vph/8Hz) movement, not to mention time-only, time and date, and references richly decorated with precious stones. This year the brand presents an ultra-thin Alpine Eagle model in a 41mm case with a thickness of just 8mm.The case of the Alpine Eagle 41 XPS has a familiar shape, distinguishing flanks and a bezel with eight proper screws and an engraved crown. For balanced proportions in line with the slim profile, the sides of the bezel

Introducing: IWC Pilot Performance Chronograph Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month
With its long-winded name, IWC's new watch can best be described as the more complex brother of a Performance Chronograph released in 2023 for four-wheeled pilots. Equipped with the brand's innovative perpetual calendar movement and its uncommon digital display, the Performance Chronograph IW388801 comes with a dashing black and golden colour scheme.Presented in 2023, IWC's Pilot's Watch Performance Chronograph 41 is a racing chronograph with a tachymeter scale on its bezel, the racetrack alternative to IWC's well-stocked portfolio of pilot's chronographs powered by the same in-house automatic chronograph movement: calibre 69385. Ad - Scroll to continue with article The second part of the equation relates to IWC's unusual digital perpetual calendar combined with a flyback chronograph. Inspired by the displays of IWC's Pallweber pocket watches from the 1880s with

Interview: Thierry Stern, President of Patek Philippe, On The Tokyo Grand Exhibition
From 10 to 25 June 2023, Patek Philippe hosted the largest exhibition ever organized by the manufacture, the Grand Exhibition “Watch Art” Tokyo 2023. Some 60,000 visitors attended what's surely a success for the brand, which was accompanied by the launch of several limited editions, including two technical timepieces making their global debut. An important part of the communication strategy of the brand, these exhibitions allow collectors and simple watch enthusiasts to immerse themselves into the exclusive world of Patek. We're talking with Mr Thierry Stern, President of Patek Philippe, about the importance and purposes of these Grand Exhibitions.After Dubai in 2012, Munich in 2013, London in 2015, New York in 2017 and Singapore in 2019, Patek Philippe chose Tokyo for the sixth of its grand exhibitions across the world. Historically an important market for watchmaking, gathering some of the most discerning collectors around the globe, Japan was a suitable place for this 20

Tudor and its Heritage - The 1970s Chronographs and the Tudor Heritage Chrono - Monochrome Watches
As we’ve seen in our two first episodes of “Tudor and its Heritage“, the brand made an important move into sports watches in the middle of the 1950s, starting with the Submariners, followed by the Ranger. These vintage pieces formed the basis for the creation of two current watches, the Heritage Black Bay and the Heritage Ranger, which pay tribute to the rich past of Tudor Watches. However, there's another type of watch that we haven't explored yet, and in this field, Tudor has been very active: chronographs. Today, we are going to look at how, starting in 1970, the brand created some highly iconic and bold chronographs, which later inspired the super-cool Tudor Heritage Chrono.The modern definition of a vintage-inspired Chronograph by Tudor, the 70330N Heritage Chrono Ad - Scroll to continue with article Surprisingly, while many other sports-o