Evening of Adventure, Art and Tudor Watches Event
Felix Scholz
Vincent Fantauzzo’s latest artworks watch over proceedings.Tudor's collection this year is one full of adventure, from the rugged and utilitarian North Flag to the free-spirited Fastrider. So we didn't know exactly what to expect when we got an invitation from Tudor to have dinner and inspect their latest watches. We were on.................. 19.06.15 More
New releases from Zodiac, Horage, Hamilton and more
Pietro Pilla
In this week's selection, you'll find collaborations with a famous collector group, professional watches to celebrate special rescue teams, new colourways for iconic models, and redesigned existing ones. For those of you more focused on the technical side, we included a couple of impressive chronographs and some delightful-soundin.................. 19.05.24 More
Is the rise of male jewellery fuelling our love for integrated-bracelet watches?
Luke Benedictus
Worn by the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Andy Warhol, Piaget was a brand that reeked of jet-set glamour in the 1970s. The launch of the Piaget Polo, the brand's first integrated-bracelet watch, did little to dispel this aspirational image. ?Released in 1979, the watch got widespread attention after it was photographed on the w.................. 19.05.23 More
VIDEO: The evolution of the Rado Captain Cook continues
Time+Tide
Until five years ago, the Rado Captain Cook was a largely forgotten watch. This handsome skin diver with a rotating bezel was in circulation from 1962 to 1972, before Rado moved onto fresh horological pastures and began establishing its reputation in the world of high-tech ceramics. But then in 2017, the brand surprised the watch wor.................. 19.05.22 More
Bulgari Aluminium Steve Aoki is the latest watch inspired by dance music
Luke Benedictus
Different professions have their own specific demands when it comes to the attributes of a watch. A professional diver, for example, needs a hydrogen-release valve, while a doctor could benefit from a pulsometer. But what about a DJ? This question popped up last year when I was talking to Carl Cox, the British superstar DJ who&.................. 19.05.21 More
Nick Kenyon
The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak is one of the most well-known watches in the world, but there are some references within the family that remain relatively undiscovered. While they are extremely rare, Royal Oaks with stone dials are as beautiful as you would imagine from the Le Brassus-based brand, with lapis lazuli and various other .................. 19.05.20 More
SPOTTED! BY AG: Dispatch 10, May 2018 the London Edition
Andy Green
I backed up Baselworld, with a solid stint in London, where let me tell you I did some serious watch spotting. So much spotting in fact, we had to split it out. Here we go!Silas' Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso London Edition'.Kicking things off, in true British fashion, a London boutique-only edition Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso. This is one .................. 19.05.18 More
Six of the Best Square Watches Square Pegs in a Round World
Felix Scholz
Sometimes the endless parade of circular watches gets a little monotonous. We've been conditioned by decades of design to default to the round in watches. By and large that's fine, but sometimes we want something just outside the norm still versatile, still stylish, but a little less same same. And there's where the squares come i.................. 19.05.17 More
IWC Portugieser Chronograph Classic: A Watch That Lives Up to its Name
Cameron Wong
In 1939 when two Portuguese merchants approached IWC about making a wristwatch with the same levels of?accuracy usually seen in marine chronometer pocket watches, they had no idea it would be the beginning of a legend and the birth of one of IWC's most popular collections. With a new slightly revised design, IWC have launched an u.................. 19.05.17 More
Kayaking Down the Hudson River with a Tudor North Flag Photo Report
Felix Scholz
Having billed last year's North Flag as an intrepid watch, Tudor wasn’t?satisfied with merely talking a good game. To back up their claim, they enlisted modern-day adventurer James Bowthorpe – who made his name circumnavigating the globe in 175 days, on a bicycle – to put it to the test.Preparation for the reconn.................. 19.05.16 More
Cartier Tank Louis Cartier Skeleton Sapphire
Felix Scholz
The story in a second:Introducing a new Tank model isn't easy Cartier have to successfully balance the century old history of the watch with the need to look to the future. They got that balance right on this one.The Cartier Tank, like all iconic designs, has to deal with the tricky dichotomy of being ubiquitous and exceptional at.................. 19.05.15 More
Longines Heritage 1935 Majetek Review
Felix Scholz
As a brand Longines is a bit of an odd bird. In Australia at least they're mostly known by their crowd pleasing collections, such as the women's Dolce Vita line and chunky men's HydroConquest range. And priced as they are at the lower end of the Swatch group stable, it's easy to forget that Longines have, over the course of their .................. 19.05.14 More
Interviewing Jr?me Lambert, the new Jaeger-LeCoultre CEO | VIDEO
Buffy Acacia
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You can barely even say the name Jaeger-LeCoultre without saying Reverso like an auto-complete sentence, and it's no secret that it's the brand's flagship model. It's actually impressive how one watch can become so iconic that it makes the rest of a brand's catalogue f.................. 19.04.25 More
Meet Time+Tide Tribe: our new channel that we would love for you to follow
Zach Blass
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For those fully tuned in to our fair coverage last week, you likely noticed the emergence of a new channel: Time+Tide Tribe. With our masthead motto being ‘The Home of Watch Culture”, we firmly believe that the most important part of the watch world is its co.................. 19.04.24 More
Bulgari CEO Jean-Christophe Babin talks about competition, and how to beat it
Buffy Acacia
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It's safe to say that not everyone wants a watch that is thin enough to jimmy open a locked door, but the modern generation of ultra-thin watches doesn't really exist for the masses. You can easily dive in from a technical standpoint, and analyse how each component she.................. 19.04.24 More
Baume & Mercier Riviera Squelette | HANDS ON
Tom Austin
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Given where Baume & Mercier has been positioned in the market in recent years, and if you’ve not paid much attention, you might think that the Riviera line is fundamentally a response to the recent uptick in the number of watches with multi-faceted cases and in.................. 19.04.24 More
How Tissot weaves history into their collections
Borna Bosnjak
In a world where heritage is often a deciding factor when it comes to credibility, Tissot’s long-standing existence is certainly a plus. The brand has never strayed from looking back at its catalogue and re-releasing a winner – the PRX is the only proof of that you’ll need – but the way Tissot intertwines .................. 19.04.23 More
boxer Amir Khan robbed at gun point for 72,000 Franck Muller
Luke Benedictus
Amir Khan has become the latest celebrity victim of watch crime after the British boxer was robbed at gun-point in London last night. The former world champion posted on Twitter?that he and his wife, Faryal Makhdoom, were recovering after being confronted by two men in East London with his diamond-encrusted Franck Muller snatch.................. 19.04.22 More
The Zenith Icons collection is a thrilling prospect for vintage fans
Luke Benedictus
I've always had a soft spot for vintage Zenith ever since buying a 1950s dress watch from a woman in Rome. Nervous that I was about to wire over my cash to a total stranger in a foreign country, I attempted to strike up a connection. If I was going to be swindled, I figured, then at least she'd feel mildly guilty if we'd built .................. 19.04.21 More
Ice, ice baby: The best gem set watches from Watches & Wonders
Thor Svaboe
Gems, dazzle, diamonds and pizzazz. This year we have seen a delectable tableau of precious stones within, around, and paved on some of the flashiest new watches shown at Watches & Wonders. And while the entire Phygital viewing experience does leave a lot to be desired, the top maisons have managed to convey the blend of haute .................. 19.04.21 More
Nick Kenyon
For anyone reading this in April 2020, you’ll agree that it’s a strange time to be alive. Somehow, we have already seen three months of 2020, a point that has felt both incredibly fast and agonisingly slow to pass. As the interconnected health and economic crises continue to unfold around the world, the news cycle is do.................. 19.04.20 More
Nick Kenyon
At SIHH in 2019, Cartier released something very special, and oddly, it was powered by stock standard quartz. The Cartier Santos-Dumont was met with a standing ovation, not just because it was remarkably faithful to some of the earliest watch designs from Cartier, but it was also slim and relatively affordable thanks to that humble.................. 19.04.20 More
Turns out hand painting watch dials is hard. We found the proof at Franck Muller
Time+Tide
Editor’s note: Look, we never thought it was easy. This is, after all, skilled manual labour. But Andrew discovered just how difficult hand-painting a watch dial is when he visited Franck Muller in Geneva …?I'm not above admitting it. I'm more than just?a bit painful when it comes to painted versus printed dials. Is this .................. 19.04.19 More
Time+Tide
Editor’s note: One of the easiest ways to freshen up a watch is to change the dial colour. Few colours are fresher than green, and in 2019 that trend doesn’t look like going away. Here’s a list we put together last year, of seven of the most envy-instilling green dials.?Today we're following up on last week's batch .................. 19.04.19 More
HANDS-ON: The Bulgari Octo Finissimo Automatic Sandblasted same Octo, completely new look
Sandra Lane
Bulgari blew us away last year with their Octo Finissimo Automatic that mind-boggling thinness; the incredible lightness of being at one with its titanium case and bracelet, feeling it drape around the wrist. For Baselworld 2018, it's back this time in full gold. And if you think solid gold bracelet watch means 1980s-style bling, t.................. 19.04.18 More
Oris Divers Sixty-Five 42mm: Best Heritage Reissue of Recent Times?
Felix Scholz
Editor’s Note: Last year one of the fiercest inter-office debates was about the perfectly composed heritage piece that is the larger Divers Sixty-Five from Oris. The perennial question was, “bronze or steel?” Andrew was firmly in the bronze camp, I was steel. Read on to find out why.?Story in a secondNo risk of s.................. 19.04.17 More
Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Big Blue Hands-on Review
Felix Scholz
While one of the key trends of Basel 2017 is a move towards more wrist-friendly dive watches (see exhibits A and B), there's no doubt that big and bold is still the name of the game. Omega's latest PO, the Big Blue, delivers on both fronts, thanks to its whopping 45.5mm wide by 17.8mm high case made from bright blue ceramic. Why B.................. 19.04.17 More
Montblanc Twincounter Date Hands-on Review
Felix Scholz
Montblanc produce a wide range of watches, from mass consumer-friendly time-only pieces all the way up to their top-of-the-tree Villeret collection. While each price-point is more than holding its own in the current day, with CEO Jerome Lambert injecting more value and excitement than ever before, the sweet spot in Montblanc's lin.................. 19.04.16 More
Andrew McUtchen
Watches are all about timing and so are watch launches. When Oris Australia announced that they would launch their new Great Barrier Reef II model on a boat actually floating above the Great Barrier Reef, the area was already in the news. A gaffe by a politician who downplayed the significance of the worst coral bleaching event.................. 19.04.16 More
The history of TAG Heuer and Formula 1 | VIDEO
Borna Bosnjak
It’s not often that you get the chance to bring a camera into a watch brand’s archives, and even less often do you get nearly unbridled access, led by the brand’s own Heritage Director. But that’s exactly the courtesy TAG Heuer and Nicholas Biebuyck granted us before the opening of the 2025 Formula 1 seaso.................. 19.03.25 More
Vacheron Constantin and the Met unveil new bespoke program | NEWS
Vacheron Constantin and the Met have unveiled the first project in their ongoing partnership – an extension of the “Masterpiece on Your Wrist” program launched in 2019.This will allow clients to commission timepieces that incorporate artwork from the museum’s incredible catalogue.As each watch will be a bespoke piece unique,.................. 19.03.24 More
Meghan Markle is polarising the watch world with Princess Diana's Cartier
Luke Benedictus
Right now, Meghan Markle is the single most divisive woman in the Western World. Following her explosive interview on Oprah alongside Prince Harry, the Duchess of Sussex has become a wildly polarising figure. To her supporters, she's emerged as a fearless advocate of positive change. Serena Williams, for example, described Megh.................. 19.03.21 More
Nick Kenyon
Sometimes when I sit down on a Friday afternoon with a beverage of some description (today, an ‘Almond Negroni’ my colleague Matt claims he invented) to write the Friday Wind Down, I need to pause for a moment to consider the theme of the week.Not this week.This week, everywhere I look, it’s green, green, green. G.................. 19.03.21 More
London, New York, Paris, Tokyo: Limited edition Hublots of the big cities
James Robinson
Hublot has decided to celebrate their love of Britain's capital city in quite a literal way by producing this, the Hublot Classic Fusion Special Edition London. Based on the standard Classic Fusion, the 45mm case of the new London edition features bespoke elements such as a polished black ceramic case, black satin-finished bezel.................. 19.03.20 More
LIST: Tudor's teasers Cam takes a few guesses
Cameron Wong
In case you were unaware (how is that rock you've been living under?), Baselworld 2019 is nearly upon us. So, while the rest of the team are currently en route to Basel, I've planted myself firmly behind each one of my digital detective devices and taken off in search of any and all clues as to what Tudor may soon have in store fo.................. 19.03.19 More
EDITOR'S PICK: The Rado DiaMaster Thinline Ceramos where metal meets ceramic
Felix Scholz
Editor's note: The thing I love about Rado is that even when they deliver a seemingly demure, classic round watch, they add a twist. In this case made from the futuristic hybrid alloy Ceramos. It’s definitely a watch to check out in the metal ummm, Ceramos to really appreciate.?When it comes to materials, it's hard to beat R.................. 19.03.19 More
Hands-on Review of Carrera Heuer-01 45mm Black Ceramic
David Chalmers
We all knew it at the time, but it has taken 12 months to play out in terms of product; the Carrera Heuer-01, launched last year was never going to be a one-off model. It was always intended to be the flag-bearer for the next generation of the TAG Heuer Carrera.?And now, 12 months ofter its initial launch it has come to fruition.................. 19.03.16 More
Bell & Ross BR-X1 Skeleton Chronograph Hyperstellar Hands-on Review
Felix Scholz
Bell & Ross made their name with utilitarian aviation inspired timepieces. As the years go by they've pushed the boundaries of what's possible within this well-worn trope via a motto ‘from the dashboard to the wrist’. Their latest collection, possibly inspired by the conveniently named, bright orange Bell X-1 ̵.................. 19.03.16 More
Baselworld 2016 Lookbook: Hublot, Bulgari and Seiko
Ceri David
The Basel Lookbook, in which our friend and fashion advisor Ceri David casts an eye over the best releases of Baselworld and suggests what might look nice to wear with them. If you’d like sass with that, you’ll be most pleased.What's this then?Hublot's Big Bang Unico Chrono Bi-Retrograde UEFA EURO 2016. No red cards here.................. 19.03.16 More
Felix Scholz
The story in a second:The Omega Globemaster, is one of Baselworld’s most talked about releases – it’s all about the high-tech movement, the vintage Constellation looks and that bezel.Last night, in an art gallery far from the halls of Baselworld, Omega unveiled their star of?2015 a brand new line called the Omega.................. 19.03.15 More