Day: January 8, 2018

  • Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar Watch In Ceramic Hands-On

    Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar Watch In Ceramic Hands-On

    If there’s one watch that still haunts the collective dreams of the watch lover community since SIHH 2017 it’s the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar. In ceramic. In the 40-ish years since the Royal Oak’s conception, Gerald Genta’s avant-garde masterpiece has seen it all. Cases made of steel, gold, platinum, and forged carbon, married…

  • BEST FROM: aBlogtoWatch & Friends February 26, 2016

    BEST FROM: aBlogtoWatch & Friends February 26, 2016

    With Baselworld just weeks away, we take a look at some of the new watches to have surfaced recently. We begin with Hublot’s fantastically awesome MP-05 LaFerrari Sapphire watch. If you thought the original MP-05 watch and its 50-day power reserve was extreme, this will surely knock your socks off as it is really just that…

  • Top 10 Watches Of SIHH 2016 & Show Report

    Top 10 Watches Of SIHH 2016 & Show Report

    SIHH 2016 was an uplifting watch trade show experience for the aBlogtoWatch team this year – as well as the watch industry, in my opinion. From the perspective of watch journalism and editorial, there was a lot to be excited about, as well as many interesting stories to cover. Compared to the last few years…

  • BEST FROM: aBlogtoWatch & Friends 9 December, 2016

    BEST FROM: aBlogtoWatch & Friends 9 December, 2016

    Christmas is just around the corner and if you are the process of shopping for a new watch, maybe this round-up will come in handy as I’m highlighting some of the best hands-on and review pieces of the past two or so weeks. We begin with two epic watches – one from a leading independent,…

  • Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Supersonnerie Tourbillon Chronograph Watch Hands-On

    Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Supersonnerie Tourbillon Chronograph Watch Hands-On

    Audemars Piguet has been creating some of the most technically interesting watches in their Royal Oak Concept collection for the past couple of years. Last year, they showed off the Royal Oak Concept Laptimer, a highly complicated chronograph with three column wheels that could measure consecutive lap times. And earlier this year, they unveiled the…

  • Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Diver Chronograph Watches Hands-On

    Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Diver Chronograph Watches Hands-On

    There are some watches out there that, one might feel, appear to have always been around. The Audemars Piguet Terminator 3 Watch Royal Oak Offshore Diver Chronograph works so well as a natural extension to the Diver collection that, to me, it is certainly such a watch. A couple weeks ago at SIHH 2016, Audemars…

  • Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Tourbillon Chronograph Watch Hands-On

    Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Tourbillon Chronograph Watch Hands-On

    Since its debut in 1992, the Audemars Piguet Watch Face Moto 360 Royal Oak Offshore has housed all sorts of complications in its virile, sporty case. The pinnacle of these endeavors surely was the $740,000 Grand Complication (hands-on here), but today we are looking at a more typical-for-AP combination of fine complications: the tourbillon chronograph.…

  • Starting Point: Best Dressy Chronograph Watches

    Starting Point: Best Dressy Chronograph Watches

    Here at aBlogtoWatch, we have covered our fair share of chronograph watches, and oftentimes they can be bunched into the “sportier” side of life. This isn’t to say that there aren’t chronographs out there that can be seen as dressy; in fact, with so many brands evolving their lines to include new materials and classier touches,…

  • Top 10 Watch Alternatives To The Rolex Submariner

    Top 10 Watch Alternatives To The Rolex Submariner

    The lauded Rolex Submariner is one of the most popular luxury watches in the world. Easily the most popular steel-cased (or otherwise) luxury diving watch, the Rolex Submariner sets the bar in many ways when it comes to timepieces of its type, at its price point. aBlogtoWatch has reviewed the Rolex Submariner here, offered a…

  • Follow aBlogtoWatch At The SIHH 2017 Watch Show January 16-20 With #SIHHABTW

    Follow aBlogtoWatch At The SIHH 2017 Watch Show January 16-20 With #SIHHABTW

    The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph. This is a watch that’s so known to many of youpersonally, it may not require much of an analysis — but this is HODINKEE and you’ll be able to think you’re gonna receive one. The Royal Oak Chronograph is a watch that has thousands of fans all over the…