Why Some Watches Gain More Than They Lose
The Small Wrist Mystery: Why Your Watch “Gains Time” You’ve almost certainly experienced it: a mechanical watch you love, one you wind with near-ritual pleasure, that—without warning—ends up running…
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Beaubleu “La Pièce”: When the Monnaie de Paris Meets Watchmaking
For the first time in its history, the Monnaie de Paris has applied its expertise to the world of watchmaking. Twelve centuries of mastery in minting, striking, and metalworking are…
Orient Star M34 F8 Date Meteorite: the 75th Anniversary Limited Edition with Meteorite Dial
A fragment of space on the wrist In watchmaking, certain materials tell a story. Gold speaks of luxury, titanium of performance, ceramic of modernity. And then there is meteorite—a material…
Why the Breitling Navitimer Is the Ultimate Pilot’s Watch
A watch born of a real need: calculating in flight In the early 1950s, civil aviation entered a golden age: transatlantic routes, celebrity pilots, cockpit instruments moving from the…
How a Striking Watch (Minute Repeater) Works
The striking watch—and, more specifically, the minute repeater—is one of watchmaking’s most poetic, and most unforgiving, complications. Poetic, because it turns time into music. Unforgiving, because inside the case nothing…
Hanhart 417 TI Desert Pilot: The Pilot’s Chronograph Goes Titanium
In the world of pilot’s chronographs, some watches make it through the decades without ever losing their purpose. The Hanhart 417 is one of those instruments born for function. From…
Seiko Prospex Speedtimer Solar: Three New Variations with Neo-Retro Flair
Seiko—who would be wrong to deny itself—keeps its Prospex Speedtimer line alive with three new takes on its emblematic solar chronograph. Nothing revolutionary on the agenda, but well-judged aesthetic tweaks…
Lip Revives the Nautic 3: Four New Affordable Dive Watches
Lip brings the Nautic 3 back into the spotlight with four new references, including a limited-edition collaboration. These 200-metre water-resistant dive watches, in a compact 39 mm format, embody the…
Christopher Ward C1 Bel Canto Lumière: Hands-On Review, Chiming and Spectacular Luminescence
The Christopher Ward C1 Bel Canto Lumière doesn’t merely tell the time—it whispers it to us, thanks to a mechanical whim that chimes the passing of every hour. And once…
MB&F LM Sequential Flyback EVO: the chronograph reinvented, once again!
While some watchmakers add complications, others challenge the very way a complication should work. MB&F embodies that idea perfectly with the LM Sequential Flyback EVO. When MB&F unveiled the LM…
Pequignet Royale Paris Manual: When Hand-Winding Restores Meaning to Time
I’ll admit it outright: my heart instinctively beats for automatic watches. No doubt out of habit, and comfort too. You slip them on your wrist, they live, they feed on…
Is it better to buy your watch in France or Switzerland?
The True Cost of a Dream: Between the Display Window and the Border In a watch lover’s mind, buying a timepiece is never just about a price tag. It’s…
These Vintage Military Watches Are Winning Over a New Generation
From wartime tool to style icon In recent years, vintage military watches have stepped out of collectors’ dusty display cases and onto the wrists of a new generation. They…
This French Watch Rivals the Swiss
When France Takes a Seat at the Swiss Table In the Morteau valley, on the banks of the Doubs, French watchmaking has never stopped beating—sometimes under its breath, often…
This Cult 1960s Watch Is Back in the Spotlight — and Collectors Can’t Get Enough of It
Designed by a young Gérald Genta for Universal Genève, the Polerouter has left its mark on watchmaking history. Long forgotten, it is now being rediscovered by enthusiasts, carried by the…
M.A.D.1S “Grow Your Dreams”: Time to Dream in Color with Yinka Ilori
The new M.A.D.1S “Grow Your Dreams” collection was born from a chance encounter between Maximilian Büsser, founder of MB&F and of the M.A.D.Editions brand, and the Anglo‑Nigerian artist Yinka Ilori.…