A fairly new brand from Japan with the goal of delivering “honest watchmaking from Asakusa” and “affordable Japanese watches,” Kiwame Tokyo has made quite some noise with its first two releases, the Kurotsuki and Usuki models as its inaugural pieces, and the IWAO Field series at the end of last year. Mixing vintage Calatrava elements, […]
Nivada Grenchen has always seemed like a brand that embraces the fun side of life, and its latest release, the Antarctic Erotic, is proof of that. In watchmaking, erotic or animated scenes have existed for centuries, often hidden away and revealed only on demand. Nivada uses this heritage with a lighter, more contemporary tone without […]
Discovering new independent watchmaking talents is a rare pleasure – especially when it’s as compelling as the debut of Mathieu Cleguer’s brand. With his first creation, this watchmaking engineer introduces a singular vision where aesthetic purity meets technicality. At first glance, the Inspiration One captivates with its clean, balanced design elevated by superb finishing and […]
Introduced last year, the Pulse line is a departure from the classical regulator watches for which Chronoswiss became known in the 1980s. The collection keeps the key design elements such as the oversized onion crown, the coin-edge bezel, and the layered dial construction, but offers a contemporary case and an integrated bracelet. Just ahead of Watches […]
There is already a bevy of alternatives or side venues to the mighty Watches and Wonders, taking place during what's now known as Geneva Watch Week. Maxime Couturier and Lorenzo Maillard expect there's room for one more. They're the guys behind Chronopolis, a new gathering space in downtown Geneva that's promising to give profile to the 20 or so brands participating during what's arguably the most important week of the year for the industry. Armed with a hipster watch enthusiast persona, Coutu
What We KnowCleguer Horology is making its debut with the Inspiration One, a time-only watch that puts its technical ambitions front and center. Founded by watchmaking engineer Mathieu Cleguer, the brand is built around chronometry and movement architecture, with the Inspiration collection serving as a platform for exploring escapements, constant-force ideas, and power delivery.From the outset, the watch is designed around depth and restraint. The architecture is layered, stepping down from th
What We KnowBack in 2023, Raymond Weil found itself with a hit that was the Millesime series, making a prominent statement when the Millesime Small Seconds won the GPHG award in the Challenge category. It was certainly deserving, as the design felt completely different from any Raymond Weil you might have imagined, offering a classy, well-executed modern take on the classic sector-dial dress watch. Since its original small-seconds and central-seconds time-only models, the Millesime has fully f
Although Grand Seiko is now firmly established on the international watch scene, Credor is still something of a niche brand. Founded in 1974 as the high-end division of Seiko Corporation, with a focus on refined, ultra-thin dress watches decorated with artisanal techniques, Credor was originally available only in Japan until the release of the Locomotive […]
Founded in 1974, Credor is Seiko’s high-end brand created to showcase Japanese haute horlogerie, artistic finishing and ultra-thin watchmaking. Originally exclusive to Japan, Credor began its international expansion in 2024 with the launch of the Locomotive model, a watch originally designed by Genta, and will consolidate its position as it will soon be exhibited at […]
Coming up for its 50th anniversary, Raymond Weil marks the occasion with The Fifty, a handsome chronograph powered by a restored Valjoux 23-6 column-wheel chronograph from 1976, its year of birth. Donning a neo-vintage sector dial, inspired by the Millesime Small Seconds and the Millesime Chronograph, this accomplished limited edition is poised to captivate a […]
Gerald Charles is a name that traces back to the legendary Gérald Genta, widely regarded as one of the most influential modern watch designers. While his eponymous brand, Gerald Genta, was sold to Bulgari in 2000, Genta himself soon embarked on a new chapter, founding Gérald Charles as a more personal expression of his design philosophy. In 2011, […]
Founded by Thomas Fleming, Fleming is part of a new generation of American independents approaching watchmaking as a complete design exercise rather than a sum of components. The inaugural Series 1 Launch Edition already set the tone, cohesion between case, dial and movement, unified by the behaviour of light, offering a combination of refined proportions, […]
Worldtimers are mechanically complex watches, relying on coordinated discs to show all time zones at once. That is not quite what Baltic is doing here. With the new Heures du Monde, the brand takes a different route, bringing it in under EUR 1,500 and building on a Swiss GMT movement to rethink how the information […]
Located just a few blocks from the bright lights of Times Square, Citizen's Flagship Store & Museum in NYC was the perfect setting to mark 50 years of Eco-Drive Innovation, the brand's proprietary light-powered technology. To mark the occasion, members of the Hodinkee community joined Neall Brick, Director of Merchandising at Citizen Watch America, Shoichiro Morita, Eco-Drive movement engineer at Citizen Watch Japan, Yu Sekiguchi, Editor-in-Chief of Hodinkee Japan, and Tim Jeffreys, Deputy
What We KnowTwo years have passed since Thomas Fleming launched his eponymous brand, Fleming, and we covered the debut of the Series 1 in detail. That first release sold out quickly. Now, rather than starting over, the brand returns with a familiar design. The Series 1 Mark II builds on the Comblemine and stone dials, pushing the watch in a slightly more modern direction.In the first release, the brand used guilloché dials on two models and aventurine with grey-grained portions for the third.
If there’s one thing to be said about Tissot over the past couple of years, it’s the fact that they have a keen sense of what the community wants. Sure, the size reduction of the brilliant PRX Powermatic 80 might have taken a bit too long for our liking, but we now have it in […]
What We KnowIn watches, few complications carry the romance of a world timer. A single display that brings all the cities of the world together. It's as evocative as it is practical, and long one of the most coveted formats, especially among vintage collectors. Case in point: a Patek Philippe ref. 2523 with a South American cloisonné enamel dial heads to Phillips this spring with an estimate north of CHF 5,000,000. Add in the enduring appeal of stone dials, and you're firmly in grail territory
According to Switzerland's oldest newspaper (and one of its most respected), Patek Philippe has signed a deal with the world's oldest watch retailer, Zurich-based Beyer Chronometrie, to take over the company's space on Zurich's famed Bahnhofstrasse starting in 2027. The sale of the business and acquisition of its lease at Bahnhofstrasse 31, which currently houses a Patek Philippe boutique and will reportedly be converted into a Patek salon, and was first reported by Neue Zürcher Zeitung. The B
Born in 2005 as the reference 7027 (a compact 37mm model with power reserve indicator and hand-wound movement), the Breguet Tradition has since become a classic of the brand and one of its most recognisable watches. It’s also one with possibly the strongest connection to the past. It’s not a vintage re-edition done the classic […]
The trajectory of the Ferdinand Berthoud brand has been quite remarkable since its revival in 2015 by Karl-Friedrich Scheufele of Chopard and his teams. Its inaugural model won the prestigious Aiguille d’Or at GPHG, followed by numerous other awards. Beyond industry recognition, collectors widely praise the brand’s fascinating designs and uncompromising craftsmanship, culminating in last […]