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Tag Heuer Becomes The First Official Watch Of Coachella
Coachella has gone high-end now that Swiss timepiece brand Tag Heuer has come on board as the festival’s official watch. Fans of the brand were welcomed to the Tag Heuer lounge, an exclusive VIP area within the festival that featured various amenities including a photo booth that generates social media content and a Connected Watch…
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Panerai Radiomir 1940 Minute Repeater Carillon Tourbillon GMT
It may be a mouthful to say, but it is also an earful and an eyeful. Panerai brand watch has just unveiled its most complicated watch to date: the Radiomir 1940 Minute Repeater Carillon Tourbillon GMT. The new watch – which is made to order only — is remarkable for a number of reasons, not…
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Vintage Rolex Cosmograph Daytona
There was more elbow room at Rolex watch Baselworld this year. Chalk it up to a skittish economy or the emergence of the smartwatch but whatever it was — it sure made for easier walking in Hall 1. Watch brands showed signs of caution too, many dropping prices and reducing new models. But there was…
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Reviewing Tissot Navigator Yachting
Roughly 5 months ago I published a #TBT about a vintage Tissot Navigator watch price . That article was titled „before”. Anyone who read that piece knows exactly why I gave that name to the write-up. The watch I bought was in sorry condition, the crystal was cracked and it was not original, the bezel…
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Perfectly Proportioned Versus Versace V-Versus Watch Collection
It doesn’t take long to realize how the Versus Versace V Versus got its name. The graceful V-shaped lugs that are used to secure the band are not only strikingly beautiful; they also represent one of the most revered names in fashion. The perfectly proportioned 34 mm three-hand configuration is exactly what you’d expect from…
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Reviewing IWC’s new Portofino Hand-Wound Monopusher
Most of us like to think that progress is linear. Experience, however, teaches us that, like crowds of people rushing through an airport, it is rather more like Brownian motion – the random movement of particles suspended in a fluid. In other words, things can go backwards or sideways just as easily as forwards. This…
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A Closer Look At the Sleek New Hublot Classic Fusion Berluti
Known for its seriously tough timepieces, up until now Hublot’s relationships have been suitably macho, hooking up with the likes of Manchester United, Miami Heat and Formula 1. But while these may appeal – very successfully – on a tribal level, Hublot is now turning to a modern man’s love of craftsmanship rather than just…
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Reviewing Emporio Armani Swiss Made ARS3200 Limited Edition
When high street fashion brands diversify into watches, they are generally quartz pieces, as in the case of brands such as Tory Burch and Michael Kors, even Versace, but some brands are showing interest in mechanical watches. An important player in this area is Fossil Group, an American company who make watches for a wide…
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Reviewing Mido Baroncelli Heritage
OK, it doesn’t have the prestige of a Piaget, but the Mido Baroncelli Heritage is nonetheless admirably thin at 6.95 mm, and works very well as a dress watch at a price of €880 in steel and €980 in rose gold PVD-coated steel. It was launched in 2016 to mark the 40th anniversary of the…
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Reviewing Longines Flagship steel bombee lugs 1957
The Longines Flagship is one of those enduring model groups, like the Rolex Oyster and the Omega Seamaster, that qualifies as an icon in the eyes of the vintage watch collecting community. First offered in 1957 and still in production today, the Flagship range has continuously evolved but, exactly like the Oyster and the Seamaster,…
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Vintage Heuer Monza Chronograph CR2080.FC6375
Despite being only eight years old at the time, I can still vividly recall many aspects of 1976. One of my overriding memories was sitting on the back seat of my father’s new lavender blue Chrysler Alpine, travelling with my parents to Cornwall for our annual summer holiday. I remember the atypical sunshine and the…
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Hublot Big Bang Unico All Black Sapphire Hands-On Watch
It is amazing what JC Biver from Hublot accomplished in the past decade or so. Of course, his track record goes much further than Hublot (think Blancpain and Omega for example). Today he manages Hublot and the success he had with the brand is also being applied to TAG Heuer and Zenith. However, those two…