What's the future of independent watchmaking? Well, if you were in Singapore this past weekend, you'd be hard-pressed to believe it's anything but strong. Just look at the folks at the table pictured below. Raúl Pagès, Gaël Petermann and Florian Bédat, and Theo Auffret, all laughing, smiling, and just an hour later, all totally inundated…
The world of the ana-digi watch is home to one of the weirdest and most fun niches in all of sports watches. In some ways, the ana-digi watch was the original smartwatch, combining a traditional analog time display with a screen, or screens, to display additional information.
Born following the Quartz Crisis of…
Happy Horror-ological Halloween! Last year in honor of this spooky season I wrote about watches that kill, uncanny automata, and goblins of Swiss watchmaking. I featured a recent novel called Death Watch, in which a watch that might just be capable of severing its wearer's wrist becomes the "must-have accessory for end-time capitalism."
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Formex has built a strong reputation for technical innovation. Its sister company, Dexel, is a manufacturer and supplier for many Swiss brands. Pesky NDAs often obscure who's really making what, but Dexel's website features bracelets for Girard-Perregaux and Montblanc, cases for Hublot, and more. Much of this tech finds its…
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Oris is approaching the 60th anniversary of one of its most iconic and core releases—the Divers Sixty-Five—and it's doing it by making some subtle updates and rebranding as the Oris Divers Date. If you know the Divers Sixty-Five, then you will feel right at home with the new watch.
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Happy Bring A Loupe and welcome back to Friday! After a week's hiatus due to a tight schedule at our Hodinkee x UBS House of Craft NYC, we're back. Moreso than time, I found last week's watch offerings around the internet to be a bit lacking. Good news is, this edition is chalk full of…
Auction season is upon us (well, does it ever really stop?), and the Hong Kong auctions have already taken place. For the first time in three seasons, I'm not going to be able to make it to Monaco this fall. But the catalog is full of the kind of lots that only the team at…