Happy Friday, and welcome back to Bring A Loupe! I come bearing awful news: my personal eBay account was hacked this week. My watchlist full of gems is temporarily inaccessible, and the years of effort creating the perfect list of saved searches are currently for naught. How does that affect the column? Well, this week,…
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Louis Erard, a brand no stranger to collaborations and regulator dials (collabulators? regulatorations?) has teamed up with Vianney Halter for a second time, with the Le Régulateur Louis Erard x Vianney Halter II. If you aren't familiar with the first collaboration between the two partners, the Le Régulateur Louis Erard…
Welcome to "GPHG Week," a themed mini-series where we're covering four winning watches from this year's Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève that you otherwise may have previously missed. Today, we have the IWC Portugieser Eternal Calendar, which was awarded the Aiguille d'Or at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève this year for watch of the…
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The last time we covered Aera – a microbrand focused on creating Swiss-made watches focused around one core silhouette – co-founders Jas Minhas and Olof Larsson revealed their most complicated watch to date in the C-1 Chronograph. Now, Aera dials everything back to reveal their simplest model yet in the…
Last month, in partnership with UBS, we hosted a get-together and series of talks in New York City called "House of Craft." The event featured a who's who of watch-world luminaries, including industry legend Jean-Claude Biver, actor Keegan Allen, chef Alton Brown, AP CEO of the Americas Ginny Wright, actor Daniel Dae Kim, journalist Jay…
Welcome to "GPHG Week," a themed mini-series where we're covering four winning watches from this year's Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève that you otherwise may have previously missed. Today, we're exploring this year's "Chronometry Prize" winner from Bernhard Lederer, a discretionary prize for the "best-competing timepiece that stands out for its remarkable precision timekeeping performance…
This year, Hind Seddiqi brought the Horology Forum to Hong Kong. Less a city than a delirium, Hong Kong is an unapologetically vertical onslaught of steel, glass, and every fevered neon light imaginable. Stacked with frenetic, towering ambition – the city is both excruciatingly modern and overtly traditional. It's caught in a perfect medium between…