By Nancy Olson The Watches & Wonders Geneva 2023 show is in full swing and we are still discovering great new pieces. In fact, Montblanc this year does not disappoint. The brand’s new mountain-inspired Montblanc 8000 Capsule Collection is a tribute to the world’s fourteen highest peaks—each over 8,000 meters above sea level—and the climbers…
This article was amended on January 12, with a new statement by the brand being issued about this timepiece. That statement is at the end of this article. Well, , Mary Shelley, the original author of what may well have been the first science-fiction bo,Frankenstein, might not be rolling over in her grave with the…
Not too long ago, we had the opportunity to talk at length with MB&F’s Charris Yadigaroglou about the brand’s exceptional, highly technical Legacy Machine Split Escapement watch. The LM SE is one of the challenging timepieces to build because the escapement is actually split. Of course, for a brand like MB&F, challenge is an…
With SIHH around the corner, Jaeger-LeCoultre releases a very special watch: the Geophysic True Second Limited Edition Blue. Created in a series of just 100 pieces, the latest rendition is endowed with a stunning blue dial and to say it ‘pops’ would be an understatement. The inspiration for todays piece dates to the chronometer created…
Today, we present a video interview with a true watch r’s brand: Czapek Geneve. During last fall’s WatchTime New York 2017, we spent some time with a watch r in this industry, and a co-founder of the brand, Xavier de Roguemaurel. I’ve known Xavier for some years now, and I always find his enthusiasm contagious. He,…
Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) is around the corner. Beginning officially on January 15 ,2018, and running through Friday January 19, the SIHH is becoming the “it” show. This year marks the 28th edition of the fair, which I have been attending since it first began (with the exception of missing just one…
Late last year, I was one of a select, small group of journalists invited by A. Lange & Sohne to go stargazing in the Sonoran desert in Arizona. Having been a fan of this German brand since it (re)launched – and I remember the launch, and the unveiling of its first watches, then at…
In the on-going series of video interviews conducted by ATimelyPerspective’s founder Roberta Naas (author of six bos on watches), we take time to talk with those British boys we all seem to know and in the watch industry. Co-founders of Bremont, brothers Nick and Giles English have won their way into the hearts of…
With the new year upon us and the promise of great new watches being released this year, we to a video lo back at highlights of 2017 from several particular brands that were exhibiting at last fall’s WatchTime New York, One of the brands we had the good fortune of meeting with on camera for our…
With the new year here, it means show season will begin. In the watch world, that predominantly means — SIHH 2018, here we come. However, as we know, many other brands capitalize on the fact that so many retailers and press are in Geneva for SIHH and so they, too, exhibit their newest inventions —…
Happy New Year. Welcome to 2018 and the wonderful watch world we live in. This year, we opted not to reflect back on the negatives of 2017. Yes, there were negatives, there is no point in denying it: disappointing watch sales, disappointing product and even disappointing changes in industry personnel. However, the flip side is…
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