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Dispatches From A Faraway Land — The Piaget Altiplano Scrimshaw Engraving Watch
The art of scrimshaw is surrounded by layer upon layer of romance, tradition and controversy. Originating on whaling ships, where whalebone and marine ivory (mostly from walrus tusks) was plentiful,...
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There Can Be Only One — The Roger Dubuis Excalibur Spider Pocket Time Instrument
The Quatuor is the most ambitious yet singularly least understood high-watchmaking project ever undertaken by Roger Dubuis. Replace “Roger Dubuis” with “any Swiss watch brand” and you could still make...
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Three Confessions And An Absolution — Thoughts On The New Jaeger-LeCoultre...
Confession #1: I have a weakness for watches with the dead seconds complication. I said as much last year when I told someone I could spend the rest of my life staring at this particular mechanism, and...
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Beyond “His And Hers”— The Genre-Spanning Timepieces Of Watches & Wonders 2015
A Lange & Söhne — Sleepless In Saxonia I realise this isn’t really a paired set, but the new 37mm Saxonia is balanced so finely between the masculine and feminine ends of the watchmaking design...
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Introducing The New Tudor Heritage Black Bay Black
A lot of people still don’t realise that Tudor have accomplished in five years something that other companies take a lifetime to even come near — they have completely repositioned their brand,...
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A Love Letter To The Vacheron Constantin Historiques Cornes De Vache 1955
I cannot shut up about this watch. Is that bad? I feel like I ought to be at least slightly embarrassed about talking the way I do about this watch — insistently, passionately, with a level of intense...
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Bad Luck Begone! — The Richard Mille RM 26-02 Tourbillon Evil Eye
I didn’t really get this watch at first. As we conventionally understand the term, one is said to have been afflicted with the evil eye if one experiences an unmitigated and inexplicable stretch of...
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From Seas To Stars — The World Of IWC’s Social And Environmental Commitments
Earlier this year, IWC released the Pilot’s Watch Double Chronograph Edition “Le Petit Prince”, featuring an innovative and delightful “jumping star” function. This was unusual for IWC. The...
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Waking The Force — The New Legacy Machine Perpetual From MB&F
A new watch from MB&F is always a big deal. There’s a teaser campaign, articles start cropping up to revisit the previous watches, people speculate rampantly — the closest thing I’ve seen to it...
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Inside The IWC Cal. 59360 Hand-Wound Monopusher Chronograph With Stefan Ihnen...
The IWC Portofino Hand-Wound Monopusher was part of the new fleet of novelties introduced at this year’s edition of Watches & Wonders, the foremost exhibition of fine watchmaking in Asia. In terms...
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