Originally associated with Eterna, A. Schild S.A. was one of the most important ebauche and watch movement maker operating from the 1890s through the 1970s. The red-tipped alarm hand, which stands out against the eggshell white dial with large Arabic numerals, can be easily adjusted via the crown at 2…
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The new 2016 Heuer Mikrograph 100th Anniversary from TAG Heuer commemorates the 100th anniversary of the “Mikrograph”, the world’s first stopwatch with a precision of 1/100 seconds that Heuer presented in 1916. Thanks to this patented stopwatch, Heuer became the official timekeeper of several editions of the Olympic Games and…
Dutch Post-Impressionism meets Swiss high horology in Jaeger-LeCoultre’s new, extremely limited Reverso à Eclipse watch, which features on its dial an enameled, miniature re-creation of one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings, Self Portrait. The watch is the result of a collaboration between Jaeger-LeCoultre and the Van Gogh Museum…
The new Bulgari Hora Domus offers an original dual timezone display in the signature case of Daniel Roth, the brand that Bulgari acquired in 2000. When the wearer is not travelling, the local time coincides with the home time and the two hands overlaps appearing as one.Two hour hands, one…
Last week we showed you Panerai’s new dress watch, the Luminor Due, and today we’re going to look at all the other novelties that were presented to us during the recent presentation in Amsterdam. Let’s have a closer look of what we think of the update for the Luminor 1950,…
America’s largest luxury watch show, WatchTime New York, returns to Manhattan’s Gotham Hall on October 14-15 and features a plethora of luxury watch brands, from large, world-famous manufacturers to innovative independents. Among the latter is Urban Jürgensen, which will showcase its highlight piece from this year’s Baselworld, the Reference 1741…
With a very cool looking piece that’ll please fans, Ball is sweetening the pot with an early preorder that allows you to get the limited-edition Ball for BMW TMT Chronometer watch for almost 50% of its eventual retail price. It also shows in various ways how Ball is responding to…
The updated version of the 1950s’ Rolex Milgauss is a hit among Rolex fans. Is this re-engineered classic, with its improved protection against magnetism, worth the investment? Writer Jens Koch and photographer Nik Schölzel find out in this test feature from the WatchTime archives. Magnetic fields are invisible and do…
Building on the success of the original, Orient is back with its latest iteration of the Mako USA, appropriately dubbed the Orient Mako USA II. The new (at the time) and improved Mako USA came with a major facelift, one that borrowed heavily from Orient’s other dive watch lines—namely the…
We survey Seiko’s half-century-plus of mechanical chronographs in this comprehensive historical feature . Scroll down to discover the Japanese brand’s contributions to the world of chronograph wristwatches. CALIBER SERIES 6S: THE CHRONOGRAPH REBORN Like its forebears, Caliber 6S74 had a column wheel. In 1998, Seiko began making mechanical chronographs once…