Happy Friday and welcome back to Bring A Loupe! This week's edition is more standard than last's. After taking a week to preview the wide breadth of watches available in Geneva at four major auction houses, we're back with more niche picks from eBay, smaller local auction houses, and all across the web. Good news…
It's been almost an entire year since the ownership group behind Breitling (the Partners Group) announced its acquisition of vintage collector darling Universal Genève. Since that announcement, speculation has been rampant as to when we would finally see its inaugural product offering and learn where this long-awaited brand revival would nestle itself in the marketplace.…
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Our friends at Time and Tide have announced a new collaborative release with TAG Heuer today, which adds some extra Australian warmth to the already fantastic titanium diver released last year. With touches of 18K 5N rose gold on the bezel, plating on the applied indexes, hands, TAG Heuer and…
Today, Switzerland's top court rejected an Italian watch dealer/collector's appeal to claim ownership of John Lennon's Patek Philippe reference 2499. As has been covered on these pages before (right here), the watch was originally a 40th birthday gift from Lennon's wife, Yoko Ono. Now, once again, the watch is legally the property of Ono after…
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If you're looking for nostalgia, there's few places you could get as strong taste of it as you do with a DW-5600. Well, forget the taste. Bait's new "Innovation" collab with G-Shock is like a punch in the face taking you back to the '80s. It's 1980s Apple meets modern…
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Today, Nomos builds off of their previous Club Sport variations in 37mm, 39mm, and 42mm and introduces the smallest size yet in the automatic winding and 200m water-resistant lineup. When the brand previewed these to me a few months ago in Glashütte, I immediately knew that they were my favorite…