PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - Media OutReach Newswire - 22 October 2024 - The Prince Horology Vocational Training Center, Cambodia’s premier horology institute, proudly announces the graduation of its second ...
LVMH kicked off high horology in 2024 with style as this year’s LVMH Watch Week saw dazzling releases from the conglomerate’s brands. Hublot’s sci-fi-esque MP-10 Tourbillon departs heavily ...
Since its debut in 2016, the successful Aikon series by Maurice Lacroix has become the brand’s best seller. The collection has included chronographs, has embraced stainless steel, titanium, bronze and ceramic, exploring textures and finishes that give each model its own personality. We’ve seen the robust Aikon Venturer, the openworked Aikon Skeleton, and even playful […]
After studying at the Val-de-Travers school of watchmaking then at La Chaux-de-Fonds Technicum, he went on to specialise in restoration, often held to be the field reserved for the best and most ...
The Oris Aquis Date is the brand’s best-selling dive watch. Launched in 2011, revised last year, the Aquis Date was designed as a muscular, water-resistant tool watch with contemporary looks. In line with the brand’s conservation projects, a second Aquis Oris has been selected for the second chapter of the Billion Oyster Project. Issued as […]
At Watches and Wonders in April, I revelled in the barrage of wristwear novelties at the vast halls of the Palexpo, desperately trying to keep up with my three-and-a-half-day, thirty-nine-meeting schedule. But brands were also exhibiting at the lakeside Beau Rivage hotel, a glamorous hub that offers respite. Small independents brought their big guns to the hotel suites, but with an intimate and friendly atmosphere. A meeting with Sohaib Maghnam and Hader Al-Suwaidi from the Qatar-based brand B
Louis Erard has spent the past few years building a reputation as the brand that dares to bring métiers d’art to a broader audience. Where traditional crafts are usually reserved for expensive timepieces, Louis Erard has worked to democratise them, presenting limited series in grand feu enamel, hand-guilloché, and even wood marquetry. Each of these […]
When Gerd-Rüdiger Lang (1943–2023) founded Chronoswiss in 1983, his mission was to safeguard and advance mechanical watchmaking at a time when quartz technology threatened to eclipse traditional horology. A master watchmaker, Lang became renowned for pioneering features now considered staples of fine watchmaking, and the openworked mechanical chronograph. In 1995, Chronoswiss launched the Opus, the […]
What We KnowThe word "Oyster" gets tossed around this site plenty. But usually, it's never referring to the actual thing, with a lowercase "o" — you know, the little briny shellfish slung by the dozen, served on ice with a side of mignonette that we all know and (mostly) love. Today, Oris has released the second oyster-inspired collaboration in its partnership with New York's "Billion Oyster Project," with the Oris New York Harbor Limited Edition II.If this is your first time hearing about thi
Two worlds that couldn’t be more different, one born from blockchain and anime culture, the other rooted in centuries of Swiss horology, have collided to create something genuinely original. The Elements of Time series, a collaboration between Azuki and H. Moser & Cie., feels as if it shouldn’t work, but it does. Azuki, the web3-native […]
Not too long ago, our editor Brice aimed to answer a fundamental question: what makes a great summer watch? While the answer was not as straightforward as the question might suggest, one of the elements to come full circle is material. In terms of what your watch should be made of, titanium was given as […]
What would you do, as a Chevrolet-employed performance engineer and race car developer, when your employer suddenly decides to cancel all its racing programs in the middle of developing a new car? The most straightforward answer would probably be to change companies, but that’s not what Bill Thomas did. Working under contract with General Motors […]
In the 19th century, American watchmaking emerged as a global leader in precision manufacturing, pioneered by companies such as the Waltham Watch Company, founded in 1850 as the Boston Watch Company.
Vertical watchmaking is often a challenge, particularly in a country not steeped in the tradition. “The biggest challenge is our lack of a watch labour force combined with the fact that the Made in ...
What was unthinkable in the 1990s or early 2000s when many vintage Rolexes traded for a few-thousand dollars has come to pass ...
Since its founding in 1868, IWC has built a reputation for producing instruments where precision engineering meets uncompromising functionality. This approach, a combination of Swiss watchmaking tradition with an emphasis on mechanical problem-solving, has consistently produced watches designed to serve a clear purpose. This philosophy is very much evident in IWC’s dive watches, also known […]
Following the recent Ice Blue and Manufacture editions in Green and Blue that Armin Strom presented after the series update in 2022, the brand now reveals a new chapter for its iconic complication, with a warm, higher-end version of the Mirrored Force Resonance, in rose gold with a handsome black guilloche dial. The resonance phenomenon […]
If you happen to find yourself around Florida's Space Coast in the near future, you might want to make a stop by the Kennedy Space Center if it wasn't already in your plans. There's a new watch to be spotted there, and yes, you guessed it, it's an Omega Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch.But it's not any plain ol' Moonwatch. This one's special — the Speedmaster ref. 105.012 worn by Apollo 12 mission commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. on his moonwalk in 1969. The third person to walk on the M
Welcome back to Bring A Loupe, and happy Friday! At times, it can feel like most of the great vintage watch finds are behind us in 2025. By great, I mean those truly fresh to market examples of "grail" level watches — scratched original crystals, unpolished cases, and patina, you know the type. Though every once in a while, something will pop up, like this Longines 13ZN "Doppia Lancetta" which sold last week on ShopGoodwill.com. A great find, without a doubt, but collectors are looking everywh
As the only vertically integrated manufacture in the United States producing components, movements and guilloché dials, RGM is already an anomaly on the American watch scene. Founded by master watchmaker Roland G. Murphy in 1992 in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, Murphy’s interest in early 20th-century American watchmaking history is reflected in the brand’s railroad watches. The […]