April 5th, 2012
The fresh Bremont Victory Chronograph automatic wrist watch that was officially presented early last month during the Baselworld 2012 trade show belongs to a new (and still quite rare) breed of timekeepers that are powered by the relatively new La Joux-Perret 8310 ebauche. Designed and made in Switzerland, this movement offers not only adequate power reserve, but also brings you a flashy (and irresistibly vintage) dial layout with a pair of retrograde displays that look like wings of a beautiful butterfly.
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April 5th, 2012
The new De Bethune DB27 Titan Hawk automatic wrist watch features the same toroid-style chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals marking hours and minutes respectively that we have already seen on their last year’s De Bethune DB25T Tourbillon Regulator model, but features a very unusual date indicator that looks like it was inspired by a bottle opener.
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April 4th, 2012
Well, here we go again with yet another expensive quartz-powered timepiece from the Swiss jeweler. The new Peter Tanisman Carrousel Red Passion, while coming in a modest stainless steel body, can still be considered as a jewelry item, since its signature “mobile cylinder” is filled with dozens (if not hundreds) of blood-red sapphires. Now, that’s something to wear on St. Valentine’s Day.
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April 3rd, 2012
Rolex, one of the major Swiss watchmakers, has recently updated its range of “professional” Rolex Oyster Perpetual Yacht-Master (Ref. 16622) automatic watches with a new model in their proprietary “rolesium” alloy of 950 platinum and stainless steel that features a blue dial. Besides offering more contrast display, the new watch looks plain more elegant than the previous variants of the piece, including those with platinum dials.
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April 3rd, 2012
Two expensive Italian brands have joined their forces to bring you this piece of high-tech beauty. Being based on the last year’s Bvlgari Octo Quadri-Retro Chronograph model, the new Bvlgari Octo Quadri-Retro Maserati Special Edition wrist watch features the same functionality, but adds to the winning formula Maserati colors and logo. What’s really exciting is that, compared to some other makers of luxury sports cars, Maserati didn’t even insist on plastering the timekeeper’s face and strap with its signature Trident sign.
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April 1st, 2012
With the new Patek Philippe Ladies First Perpetual Calendar (Ref. 7140) automatic wrist watch, the legendary Swiss-based Manufacture gracefully fills the gaping hole in its line of ladies “complication” timekeepers that includes chronographs, world timers and even GMT watches, but, for some unknown reason, lacked a real perpetual calendar model.
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March 31st, 2012
On the heels of the recent Tudor Heritage Black Bay 200M Automatic Diver (Ref. 79220R) the Swiss watchmaker has also presented another model that seems to be inspired by their “classic” pieces. Although clearly not a reissue in the true meaning of the word, this new Tudor Pelagos Diver Titanium 500M automatic diving watch appears to be strongly influenced by the 1968 Tudor Snowflake Ref. 7021 model, but, not being a tool watch any longer, looks more refined than its predecessor.
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March 31st, 2012
It looks like the German watchmaking brand has finally introduced a chronograph model into its Kairos range. The new Chronoswiss Kairos Chronograph sports all the goodies you can expect from the brand: heavily, but meticulously guilloched dial, Breguet-type blued hands, the onion dial and a high-quality Swiss movement.
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March 30th, 2012
Believe it or not, but the Swiss watchmaker Bell & Ross has recently re-issued its gorgeous Jump Hours model that was first revealed nine years ago in Basel, Switzerland. Available both in platinum and in more affordable (and also definitely more elegant) rose gold, the new Bell & Ross WW1 Jump Hours Power Reserve watch features a pretty rare layout with a single minute hand in the center of the dial and a jumping hour aperture at 12 o’clock.
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March 30th, 2012
The Swiss-based brand Luminox has finally updated its Original Navy SEALs 3000 range of military-inspired timekeepers with a totally black model. Presented in a black carbon-reinforced polycarbonate body, the new Luminox Original Navy SEALs 3000 Blackout (Ref. A.3001.BO) has its dial, as well all inscriptions repainted either black or very dark grey. Its nighttime legibility (the main feature of any “tactical” watch) remains unharmed, though, thanks to 15 LLT micro-tubes that are filled with light-emitting gas.
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