This year is shaping up to be an exciting one from a cars-and-watches perspective. Earlier this month we announced the new relationship between Girard-Perregaux and Aston Martin, and before that TAG Heuer announced its partnership with Porsche — both with racing team involvements. Now, independent watch brand Richard Mille has announced a multi-year agreement with…
Hermes regularly surprises and delights us with the magic it works for its artistic watches. Time and again we have witnessed this brand’s incredible prowess with wood marquetry, stone marquetry, enamel work and more. Now, however, the brand takes us to all new heights with the alluring Hermes Slim d’Hermes “Les Zebres de Tanzanie” watch…
Eterna is a Swiss watch brand with a great history of firsts in both watchmaking and seafaring. In fact, its KonTiki line is named after the 1947 KonTiki ocean expedition, wherein scientist Thor Heyerdahl and five others crossed the Pacific on a wooden craft to prove that other earlier civilizations could have done so. They…
Later this month, on October 26 and 27th, WatchTime New York returns to Gotham Hall in New York City. The event is action packed, watch packed and informative … not to mention fun. Each year, hundreds of watch collectors and enthusiasts from around the world converge on Gotham Hall for WatchTime New York — – now in its fourth…
Calling it a horological world premiere, F. P. Journe unveils the binaural sound of his spectacular Sonnerie Souveraine — just months after announcing he would stop making the Sonnerie Souveraine — recorded in a special sound chamber of the EPFL (one of Switzerland’s two federal polytechnics schools) using “artificial ears with microphones.” All four walls…
This past weekend, more than 112,000 people rode classic motorcycles in the streets of 648 cities in 102 countries to benefit The Movember Foundation, dedicated to supporting prostate cancer research and men’s mental health. This marks the third year that Zenith has participated.The brand also featured the Pilot Type 20 Chronograph Ton Up Black as the…
Swiss watch brand IKEPOD is back, but it has an all-new direction than it did nearly 25 years ago when it first launched in 1994. That new direction: Affordable watches. For those who most likely won’t remember, but have heard of and maybe even collected, Ikepod was a brand designed originally by Marc Newson in…
Just recently the GEM Awards, one of the highest honors bestowed on professionals and companies in the fine jewelry and watch industries, announced its line-up of award winners and nominees that will be honored live at the 17th annual GEM Award event on January 11, 2019 at Cipriani in New York. Among the nominees named for…
Last week in New York city, Harry Winston unveiled its newest New York Collection of unique pieces of high jewelry. The collection was three years in the making and the suites are all reflective of Harry Winston’s New York. Born in 1896 in New York, Harry Winston grew up as the son of a small…
Just a couple of weeks ago, I spent time in London with Vacheron Constantin, where the brand was celebrating its new FiftySix collection, especially the just-released FiftySix Tourbillon. Additionally, the brand announced its partnership with Abbey Road Studios, and showcased its new ad campaign “One of Not Many.” It was an incredible event, and I…
James Bond, one of the greatest franchises in cinema history, played by Daniel Craig, will be the face behind a new campaign for Omega to launch the revamped Seamaster 300M series of watches. Omega has been the brand of choice for Bond for years. Now, 007 wears the Omega Seamaster 300M. The line was first launched…
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