Month: February 2016

  • Reviewing Tissot Heritage Navigator 160th Anniversary

    Reviewing Tissot Heritage Navigator 160th Anniversary

    Even if your travel-watch budget is below $2,000, you can snare a very striking world-timer from Tissot. The Tissot Heritage Navigator 160th Anniversary ($1,650) — a modern re-issue of a watch originally created in the brand’s centennial year of 1953 — has a dial that indicates the time in each of the 24 major world…

  • Affordable TAG Heuer Aquaracer 300m

    Affordable TAG Heuer   Aquaracer 300m

    Launched in 2004, the Aquaracer series has developed into one of TAG Heuer’s most popular, and for good reason. These watches offer sporty looks and professional dive watch features at an accessible price. As you may have discerned from its name, this TAG Heuer Aquaracer can descend to 300 meters, or nearly 1,000 feet below…

  • Reviewing TAG Heuer Aquaracer 72

    Reviewing  TAG Heuer Aquaracer 72

    TAG Heuer developed the TAG Heuer Aquaracer 72 in collaboration with Oracle Team USA, winner of the most recent America’s Cup series of yacht races, in 2013. (The “72” refers to the America’s Cup 72 yacht class.) The watch can take readings from sensors distributed throughout the yacht and display information such as wind speed,…

  • Reviewing Bulgari Vintage Watch

    Reviewing Bulgari Vintage Watch

    The inspiration for the first Bulgari Bulgari was an ancient Roman coin on which the effigy of the emperor was encircled by engraved inscriptions. Genta applied this design element to the watch’s bezel, which bears the two “Bulgari” engravings from which the model derives its repetitive name. The cylindrical shape of the case is also…

  • Reviewing Patek Philippe 1925 — First Perpetual Calendar Wristwatch

    Reviewing Patek Philippe 1925 — First Perpetual Calendar Wristwatch

    That this, the world’s first perpetual calendar wristwatch, ever came to be is due chiefly to chance. Patek Philippe originally made the movement, which bears the number 97975, for a women’s pendant watch. Completed in 1898, the watch found no takers despite one interesting feature: its calendar hands jumped instantaneously to the next day at…

  • Reviewing Perrelet Turbine Toxic Special Edition

    Reviewing Perrelet Turbine Toxic Special Edition

    Perrelet also has a skull watch among its series of turbine watches, known for their spinning blades on the dials. The Turbine Toxic Special Edition bears the image of a skull and crossbones, visible when the 12-blade wheel spins, and is powered by Perrelet’s automatic P-331 Double Rotor movement. The men’s version is set with…

  • Reviewing IWC Pilot’s Watch Timezoner Chronograph

    Reviewing IWC Pilot’s Watch Timezoner Chronograph

    IWC incorporated a handful of design revisions — some subtle, others less so — in the new Pilot’s Watches it introduced at this year’s SIHH. Most of these were aesthetic revamps, but one new watch in particular boasts a major new technical advance as well. The IWC Pilot’s Watch Timezoner Chronograph caught our attention with…

  • Rolex Day-Date Ref. 118238

    Rolex Day-Date Ref. 118238

    Yes, we’re talking men’s watches with diamonds. No, don’t click away from this post just yet.  I am aware that this is a bit of a tricky subject, since most men don’t like to wear diamonds. However, a lot of men who love watches do have respect for the work that goes into diamonds —…

  • Previewing Blancpain L-evolution Tourbillon Carrousel

    Previewing Blancpain L-evolution Tourbillon Carrousel

    One of Blancpain’s highlights at this year’s Baselworld is the L-evolution Tourbillon Carrousel, a highly complicated piece with a futuristic dial and case design to match. Tourbillons and carrousels both rotate their cages within a movement, but understanding them can also get your head spinning. So let’s take a moment to break down the differences…

  • Bell & Ross BR01 Airborne

    Bell & Ross BR01 Airborne

    The striking skull-and-crossbones dial on the Bell & Ross BR01 Airborne is based on the patches worn by American paratroopers of World War II, who wore it on their uniforms as a defiant symbol of courage in the face of death. The skull on the dial is coated with Super-LumiNova so that it glows in…

  • Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Diving Watch

    Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Diving  Watch

    Developed under a special trademark agreement with the United States Navy, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Diving Automatic Navy SEALs is a rough-and-tumble timepiece designed to be worthy of the elite combat unit for which it is named. The watch is engineered to withstand extremely harsh conditions and features on its dial a new form of…

  • Reviewing Omega Speedmaster Professional

    Reviewing Omega Speedmaster Professional

    Omega Speedmaster Professional The so-called “Moonwatch” has not changed much over the years. Introduced in 1957 as a watch for racecar drivers, it became the choice for NASA astronauts in 1965. In fact, it played an important role during the return of the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft in 1970. Precise timing was necessary for a…