After not meeting in person for several months, one doesn't start a conversation with Rolf Studer talking about business. You will get there, but only after some genuine pleasantries. Affable and quick to smile, while most certainly Swiss in his professional focus and determination, the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Oris first offers some highlights from…
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To celebrate its 250th anniversary, Breguet is reaching into the archives — not for a tourbillon or a complication-laden pocket watch, but for a then-revolutionary idea that once brought high-end watchmaking to a wider audience. The word "souscription" is now firmly a part of the enthusiast watch world lexicon, yet…
Lost in the Land-Dweller, Cubitus, and tariff headline-stealing madness of Watches and Wonders 2025, a nearly undeniably great watch snuck right under our typically hyper-sensitive watch enthusiast noses.
The Chopard Quattro Mark IV is a 39mm in diameter, precious metal dress watch powered by the four-stacked barrel caliber L.U.C 98.09-L, resulting in nine…
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Big news out of Maidenhead, England, and Biel, Switzerland, today as the two locales for Christopher Ward's watchmaking have announced their next new big release – the C12 "Loco". It's a new model that takes the brand's integrated sports watch, "The Twelve," and adds the new manually-wound in-house calibre, the…
This year, Tudor has added a new dial to the Black Bay Pro lineup. Since the model's one and only variant was introduced back in 2022, folks have been speculating when the next update would be, especially as the Black Bay 58 GMT was introduced last summer as a significantly thinner option in the family.…
Elephants are anything but inconspicuous and should not be ignored when entering a room. They should be addressed, just like the much-debated changes at Bremont. Over the last two years, the founding English brothers (by name and quintessential nature) have exited, and Davide Cerrato (formerly of Tudor and Montblanc) has taken the proverbial controls. Following…
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The Cartier Tank Louis Cartier, or simply Tank L.C., is the most imitated watch in the world. Not even considering the fakes — some…