Diving and Doxa go hand in hand, and a big part of that comes from the brand's incredible history of making dive watches during the golden era of SCUBA. Our friends over at Analog:Shift recently published an excellent look into Doxa's remarkable past following the recent release of the new Sub 250T GMT. Written by…
Before creating his famed marine chronometers (1730–59) to determine longitude at sea, John Harrison focused on land-based timekeeping, striving to build pendulum clocks of the highest possible precision. In the years following the Scientific Revolution and on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution, pendulum clocks governed travel, work, and daily life. The United Kingdom's variable…
Earlier this week, Louis Vuitton announced their most recent automata, and there's no arguing that these watches represent a niché within a niché within a niché of watchmaking. Incredibly expensive, often completely impractical for telling the time, and with a focus on mechanical and artistic craft, they're anything but daily wear watches. In fact, 99.9999…
Corum, the watch brand known for its "Golden Bridge" and coin watch models, has been sold in a management buyout that will return the brand to Swiss ownership. A group of managers and investors led by Corum's International Sales Director, Haso Mehmedovic, struck a deal to buy the 70-year-old brand based in La-Chaux-de-Fonds from Citychamp…
Jaeger-LeCoultre is celebrating the Reverso's roots in the world of polo with a new traveling exhibition arriving in New York City this May. Following its debut at Watches & Wonders Geneva, The 1931 Polo Club traveling collection will be on display at the Jaeger-LeCoultre Madison Avenue flagship boutique from May 1 to May 10, 2025…
When it comes to modern watchmakers working on resonance calibers, only a handful of makers come to mind. Armin Strom is a rarity in its ability to make the complication a core element of its brand identity over the past several years, as when it comes to things like resonance watchmaking, serial production is an…
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You can't control anniversaries. Year after year, they just keep coming, and sometimes it's not the best timing. This year, that's the case for a fun release from Haven Watches tied to the 55th anniversary of the legendary Minneapolis music venue First Avenue. The venue never could have known (nor…