Thanks to the talent brought to us by master watch movement designer Jean-Francois Mojon and company Chronode, we now have on this earth what is essentially the world’s most expensive Casio ProTrek with the Breva Genie 01. Why spend a few hundred bucks for a watch with a slew of digital environmental sensors when for over $150,000 you can get a mechanical weather station watch with an altimeter and barometer?
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Antoine Martin Slow Runner Watch Has Largest Escapement
For 2013 Martin Braun’s watch brand Antoine Martin will release their third major timepiece collection with the Slow Runner. Martin explained the concept of the Slow Runner to me last year by telling me that he was producing a simple watch with a huge slowing moving balance wheel. He sure wasn’t kidding.
A Quick Overview Of Sinn Watches
When it comes to watches, we all have our particular tastes – one person may love chronographs, and another may opt for a simple three-hander. What we can all appreciate though, are a handful of attributes that a single brand has built into their entire lineup: Impeccable German aesthetics Solid build quality Impressive mechanical movements [...]
RGM Caliber 20 Watch Hands-On
Last year at the Geneva Time Exhibition (GTE) I met with Roland Murphy of RGM to see the prototype of their third in-house made movement called the Caliber 20. RGM is and has been the premier US-based watch maker and for years didn’t make their own movements.
Vostok Europe Anchar Diver Watch Review
Without a doubt the design of the Vostok Europe Anchar allows it to be greater than the sum of its parts. Read off the list of tech specs and it sounds like a thousand other sub-$1000 dive watches on the market.
HYT H1 Watch Hands-On
It was crowded at HYT during the press conference. Lots of people went to hear Vincent Perriard discuss the inner workings of the H1, the new watch from his new brand called HYT. Teased for months and then recently debuted, the HYT is a high-end geek watch that aims to combine traditional mechanical watches and [...]
HYT Watch Teaser – Who Are The Hydro Mechanical Horologists?
New high-end watch brand HYT is coming in 2012. I don’t much except that the watch(es) will somehow incorporate liquid – green, possibly luminescent, liquid. One of the brand’s principles is Vincent Perriard. Formerly CEO of Concord and then TechnoMarine. Perriard has been working quietly on HYT for a while now. In my opinion Perriard [...]
4N Watch Hands-On
When I first debuted the 4N watch it was much ballyhooed. This was about a year ago when piece like this were hot. Actually, it was more than a year ago. Even then the brand was over a year away from having a final product. Now they are almost at a final product but not [...]
Japanese Miyota Targets Swiss ETA With Caliber 9000 Series Watch Movements
For about 10 years ETA has been threatening to stop supplying third-party (outside the Swatch Group) watch brands with movement kits. The horological drama has been high, with the Swiss government weighing in several times, and ETA seemingly going back and forth with what they are going to do. Before Nicolas Hayek died, the latest [...]
Reflecting On The Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 101 Movement – World’s Smallest
Please enjoy the original article below by established watch writer Meehna Goldsmith. From magazines to the freer writing form of the web, she is a knowledgeable watch junkie who knows high-end pieces. She contributes to publications such as Robb Report, International Watch, Watch Journal, among others, as well as aBlogtoRead.com. You can visit her on [...]
Timex T-Series Automatic Watches
This is new to me, and I am not sure if you can get these in the US (but similar Timex watches in the US are available). These are Timex T-Series automatic mechanical watches. Pretty decent looking mechanical watches from the brand known for quartz, quartz, and more quartz. Movements are 22 jewel automatics with [...]
Seiko Luxury Watches
I would have loved to be an automotive journalist in the early 1990s. One of the most momentous occasions of the decade was the release of the Lexus LS400, as well as the overall Lexus brand lowering into our lives like a gleaming vessel from mother-ship Toyota. The LS400 was the car that journalists said [...]
F.P. Journe Vagabondage II Watch
Fantastic new watch from F.P. Journe, I am enthralled. I was not so involve with the first Vagabondage watch, but this Vagabondage II timepiece is a damn good little number. Careful before judging it. You really need to understand where this watch is coming form. Check out all the little details in the design, understand [...]
Orient Racing Automatic CFT00004B Power Reserve Semi-Skeletonized Watch Review
You may or may not have heard of Orient watches, but that is OK since they only recently (officially) entered the US market…
Seiko Moving Design Discus Watch Is Beautiful, Basic, And Mechanical
I am on a roll talking about all these cool watches from Seiko (and Citizen) that Japan gets, but we don’t. If you’ve been to Japan, you know that they have a ton more watch stores than we do, and such stores are often combined with other items such as electronic gadgetry. Everything from the [...]
