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…
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The watch world first began to take notice of François-Paul Journe in 1986, when he joined the Academy of Independent Creative Watchmakers (AHCI). After several years of crafting unconventional timepieces for an elite and well-heeled clientele in his shop on the outskirts of Paris, the French-born watchmaking prodigy set up…
The watch is the most prestigious and complicated piece in the brand’s 1745 collection, named for the birth year of Dutch watchmaker Jurgen Jürgensen, father of the even more renowned horological pioneer, Urban Jürgensen, who founded the eponymous brand, which is now based in Bienne, Switzerland. Among the latter is…
Protected by two patent applications, the new Louis Moinet Sideralis is structured around two oversized tourbillons, with cages measuring 14.9 mm. The two tourbillons rotate in opposite directions and are positioned above the movement with the two raised cages to reveal balance wheels with beautifully styled screws.According to Louis Moinet,…
Last month I visited Kees Engelbarts in Geneva, his home town, and got to see his latest creations. Actually,a few years ago Kees Engelbarts showed me photos of his latest creation that we covered here.In all honesty, I wasn’t sure whether I really liked it or was “just” very much impressed…
As you can read in my review, the Carbon 1 was a success. It was fun, unique, attractive, and brought this material into the realm of obtainability. Now, a little over a year and a half later, Tempest is following up on that watch with a new design, aptly titled…
Is Cartier’s recently released dive watch, the Cartier Calibre de Cartier Diver, more than just a pretty face? Just about now, some of you are thinking “A Cartier dive watch? Great, I’ll wear it with my neoprene tux.” If something like that crossed your mind, read on, and be educated. We…
Kickstarter is a popular platform for seeking funding of new products. Occasionally we find interesting watch propositions that we cover . The Jubileon project immediately got our attention, as the watch has an interesting (and appealing) design and a mechanical movement. It is the brainchild of two mechanical engineers who are…
Founded in 1904 in Holstein, Switzerland, Oris has developed a reputation as all with Swiss-made mechanical movements , and a purveyor of very reasonably priced timepieces in a variety of styles. Here are five of the company’s most affordable watches,and each representing one of Oris’s distinctive watch collections. The Oris…
The new Meister Driver Chronoscope from Junghans incorporates design elements of classic cars of the past. The movement of choice is the J880.4 self-winding movement featuring a Dubois Depraz 2030 module built on a 4 Hz (28,800 vph) ETA 2892 basic calibre. The Meister Driver Chronoscope can be matched to…