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IWC is back with more colorful ceramic options, which is something that always seems to get a good number of people pretty excited. On the heels of both a white and a sand-colored ceramic release in recent months, the Pilot's Watch Chronograph 41 TOP GUN Miramar is the brand's smaller-diameter…
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Every so often, you see artistry in watchmaking that makes you sit up and pay attention. This is one of those pieces, a unique commission called the Voutilainen 28 "Kohan" Unique Piece, developed by Voutilainen and executed in collaboration between artist Tatsuo Kitamura and a client, in celebration of that…
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Ulysse Nardin is at its best when it's at its most extreme, which is frankly most of the time, to be fair. But the brand often goes up and down the spectrum from utilitarian to precious, and the new Blast Free Wheel Maillechort is decidedly the latter. The newest tourbillon-regulated,…
Often, I get the question, "How do you find out about great independent watchmakers before they become so well known it's impossible to buy from them?" It takes a lot of effort and connections to identify who is poised to break through. But thanks to the Louis Vuitton Watch Prize for Independent Creatives, there's a…
AnOrdain is all about enamel. For the ten years since the brand's founding in Glasgow, Scotland, it has amassed a cult following of enthusiastic watch collectors who gravitate towards the brand's mesmerizing, vitreous – otherwise known as grand feu – enamel dials, all made in-house by a handful of enamellers. With the brand's watches being…
Welcome back to Bring A Loupe, and happy Friday! Earlier this month, eBay updated its "How bidding works" help page to reflect a change that is being tested in the Trading Cards category — essentially adding two minutes to the auction timer when a bid is placed in the final two minutes. The extended bidding…
This post is part of a series, Reading Time at HSNY, written by our librarians. Today's post was written by Miranda Marraccini.
The Horological Society of New York was founded in 1866 by watchmakers for watchmakers–a community in which members leaned on each other if they got sick or needed help. As the…