In furniture design, we might pick the Eames lounge chair. In men’s fashion, perhaps the Burberry trench coat. In the world of watches there are several key examples, from the Cartier Tank and the AP Royal Oak, right through to the Casio G-SHOCK.In every field there are iconic designs that…
Dive Watch
While I have yet to crack the watch open I can only imagine the same eye for detail that was shown to the exterior was taken with the movement. It has kept incredibly good time throughout my owning it.Inside the Paradive, MK II opted for a decorated ETA 2836-2 with…
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…
Comparing “diving” as most people know it to “saturation diving” is a bit like comparing an amateur bicyclist to a professional construction worker. They might share the same environment and the same need to breathe, but other than that, they are in fact doing quite different things (this applies to…
In 2016, the brand Eterna celebrates 160 years of watchmaking, albeit with a dizzying number of ownership changes over the years and long swaths of time when U.S. distribution was practically nonexistent. Among Eterna’s other new launches this year is a chronograph version of the Super KonTiki, a modern, contemporarily…
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…
The history of Panerai begins in Florence, where Giovanni Panerai opened the city’s first watchmaker’s shop in 1860. The company’s history is forever linked to the Italian Navy, when Panerai became a supplier of precision navigation and time instruments to the Italian Navy for many years. In May 2016 Panerai…
Along those same lines but for aviator watches, Sinn has just announced the introduction of DIN 8330 – a new German industry standard spearheaded by the watchmaker, and anchored by a trio of new pilot watches, purpose-built and officially certified to be functionally safe and reliable in the cockpit. What defines…