No one said that luxury watches had to be conservative in their design, yet there is a fine line between something that is avant-garde versus a piece that comes off as trying too hard. Often luxury timepieces that try too hard to break the mold, also break their appeal. It is just quite difficult to […]

When looking at this new 1815 Chronograph watch, I almost hear the whistle and steam pouring out of a large locomotive as it screeches to a halt in a train station from a forgotten era. There was a time when travel was reserved as a gentleman’s pursuit, and so was the act of wearing a […]

Unmistakable to watch lovers, the Portuguese Grande Complication by IWC could be assumed as boring to those who don’t know better. The brand’s classic watch, crafted distinctly for the man’s man, gets a new flagship model with a highly regarded manufacture movement, and an added helping of durability that many competing watches can’t match. The […]

The actual Pont des Amoureux is a French bridge going over the Thiou River in Annecy, a town also known as the Venice of France. The fabled bridge earned a reputation throughout the years as a rendezvous place for couples in love. This romantic concept has been applied to a poetic watch whose maker also […]

Luxury watch movement decoration is an area of expertise that the Europeans will almost always be able to claim as their own. The finishing and décor process in regards to high-end timepieces is painstakingly long and quite inefficient in our world of modern day technologies. A skilled technician works almost entirely under a microscope for […]

Decades of success with its watches has inspired Cartier to finally open up a new door in its proverbial “house of horology,” with highly complex watches made in house. This almost flies straight in the face of what fashion-forward brands like Cartier are expected to have, which are nice looking, but mechanically simple watches. Without […]

One of the final steps in purchasing a Bi-Axial Black Pearl is giving HD3 your name so that they can engrave it on the back of the watch preceded by the title “Captain.” Based on the earlier Bi-Axial and Vulcania models, HD3’s Fabrice Gonet design of the Black Pearl version of the Bi-Axial Tourbillon complication […]

You too can be like a Russian Oligarch. Breguet timepieces seem to be a top choice luxury watch brand among politicians and business people of the region, and around the world as well. Less common in the United States, Breguet is a brand you should nevertheless be intimately familiar with as its founder Abraham Louis […]

Richard Mille timepieces are a luxurious and thematic extension of what sports cars would be if they lived on your wrist-at least that is the idea given the race inspired numerals and subdial registers. Your Porsche 911 can now have a garage stable mate that costs as much, but takes up much less room. Tonneau […]

Skeletonized dial wrist watches continue to validate our passion for mechanical timepieces by showing us why we are paying such a premium over quartz movement based models. Seeing that ecosystem of polished gears affords an appreciation of the work that goes into these little luxuries. As such, the world of “open” dial skeletonization is vast, […]