The advent of quartz watches – more accurate, more durable, and eventually much cheaper than mechanical watches – dramatically and permanently altered the way most people tell time. Interestingly enough, the ubiquity of accurate time from cell phones, fitness trackers, and everything else, from your TV to your microwave, has …
The annual calendar is a complication that enjoys an ever increasing popularity. Unlike a perpetual calendar, an annual calendar requires adjusting the date once a year, at the end of February. For many watch collectors, this yearly tradition is to prefer over a regular full calendar which needs adjusting every …
Very rarely do you hear about watches being sold on a government website. Yet, the Italian Ministry of Defense made a spectacular announcement last September when it revealed that it would auction 40 pieces of the military-issued Breitling reference 817, all in one single lot. This was a very exciting …
The Jaeger-LeCoultre Duometre is a collection that really stands apart in JLC’s catalogue. The watches boast a unique style, practical complications and exceptionally interesting movement architecture. Ahead of the upcoming Geneva Watch Fair, the SIHH 2017, the brand is previewing 3 new versions from this collection that will be launched …
For 2015, Omega releases a new version of their Seamaster Diver 300M Co-Axial Chronograph with another model in celebration of their sponsorship of the America’s Cup ETNZ team (Emirates Team New Zealand). A revised version of an existing model, this cheap replica Omega Seamaster Diver 300M Co-Axial Chronograph ETNZ has …
Story in a second Omega adds an extra hand, two millimetres and a whole lot of text to their Constellation-inspired Globemaster. The Globemaster was one of the breakthrough watches of 2015, and it would have been naive to think that Omega wouldn’t extend the collection. And, while predicting a calendar …