Vintage Cartier watches were not made to the same quality and standard as those from brands like Patek Philippe or Audemars Piguet. The maison's vintage pieces are about the romanticism of a handmade watch. Owning or putting one on your wrist evokes the romantic, imaginative experience of strolling through 1930s Paris — Chesterfield coat buttoned…
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It has been 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang. Oh, wait, sorry — wrong Big Bang. It's actually been 20 years since the first Hublot Big Bang was introduced by industry veteran Jean Claude Biver, in a big move that completely set the course for the company's DNA and…
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If there's one launch from last year's Watches and Wonders to remember, Nomos Glashütte's Tangente 38 Date collection, with its whopping 31 limited edition colorways and dial names like "Super Sardine" and "Rambazamba," certainly was a top contender.
While a release like that is hard to beat, this…
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Laurent Ferrier, the 15-year-old independent watchmaker, is placing the Classic Auto permanently in its catalog, and it's doing so in icy blue style. The Classic Auto Horizon arrives as a fresh take on LF's latest "model," introduced as a Série Atelier piece for Geneva Watch Days 2024. The Horizon swaps…
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Left: J12 Bleu Caliber 12.1 38 mm. Right: J12 Bleu Caliber 12.1 38 mm (with sapphires).
Chanel has released a limited-edition line of J12 Bleu watches to celebrate the model's 25th anniversary. With multiple iterations culminating in the remarkable J12 Diamond Bleu Tourbillon, the…
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This year at Watches and Wonders, Jaeger-LeCoultre continues developing the successful "Tribute" line with a new Reverso Tribute Geographic. It's a take on a travel time watch that's very different in execution from the model it cites in inspiration – the '90's JLC Reverso Géographique Dual Time.
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I won't bury the lede here – the 6196P is the best Calatrava that Patek Philippe has released since I have been covering watches. For those that are new here, that means this is the best Calatrava to be released by Patek in 17 years. And my friend chat GPT tells me that that 17…