Designed in Britain and made in Switzerland, their watches take cues from mid-century timepieces and design, and mix them up with a more contemporary edge, creating stylish, sophisticated yet fun watches.Today we’ll be looking at one of their two GMT models, the Barnato. Named for the British adventurer Diana Walker…
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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…
The brand Hautlence Vortex Bronze that makes a point of ‘crossing the line’ now comes with their most complex timepiece in a bronze case, and it looks just brilliant! Hautlence Vortex Bronze Over the last five years the use of bronze as material for watches has become quite a popular thing,…
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…
To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the brand’s Marine collection,the new Ulysse Nardin Marine Chronograph Annual Calendar was introduced earlier this year at Baselworld. Patrik Hoffman, the brand’s CEO, talked about it in the interview that we did during Baselworld, and in the past weeks we had the privilege to wear…
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…
Such is manner in which the Patek Philippe Calatrava Pilot Travel Time (pictured below) entered the market last year: amidst a hot bath of wide-ranging coverage expressing either admiration or indignation, from both the horological and non-horological press, generating a sustained intrigue that has lasted well past its initial release.Many…
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…
Today’s watch comes with the same movement that Vacheron Constantin used for the Traditionnelle World Time. Today’s watch is not equipped with the ultra-thin calibre 1120, which is inside the Overseas Ultra-Thin ref. 2000V and also the base of the Overseas Ultra-Thin QP. During the SIHH in January we had…