This is an article written out of love, I swear. And it's one that's a long time coming (actually, I started outlining this over the summer of 2024!) – because many of these thoughts (or, er, grievances/gripes) have been in the back of my mind for years. YEARS. These are things that, today, in 2025,…
What We Know
We're starting to glimpse at the release cycle for the "new" Louis Vuitton. The brand is balancing out the Tambour one year with the Escale the next, then back to the Tambour with the Taiko Spin Times this year. While those Spin Times captivated people's attention during LVMH watch week,…
What We Know
Today, G-SHOCK launched a new addition to its flagship, high-end MR-G series: the MRG-B2100R-2A. While the rectangular G-SHOCK icon of the 5000 series received the MR-G treatment a few years ago, last year marked the first time the highly popular 2100 series received a luxury makeover, with two examples in…
Origin Story
Last summer, I was a little shocked to hear that Raphaël Abeillon – Cartier's Senior Watch Designer and mind behind everything from reimaginations of classic Cartier designs to outlandish watches like the Santos Dumont Rewind – was leaving Cartier to join a brand I had never heard of before called ALTO.…
We've made it to the halfway point of February, and that means it's time for everyone's favorite gift-giving nonholiday, Valentine's Day. To celebrate a day that is often filled with roses, chocolates, and souvenir stuffed bears, we figured it would be fun to skip all that cliché nonsense and focus on what we know best:…
Happy Friday, happy Valentine's Day, and welcome back to Bring A Loupe! After writing, reading, and re-reading a near dissertation on Rolex Daytonas with Panda Paul Newman dials, my mind is still firmly focused on "exotic" subdials. That said, I am completely aware that $400,000+ Newmans are not for everyone. The focus this week is…
Recently, a select group of collectors and enthusiasts from the Hodinkee community braved New York City's winter weather to gather with our own Ben Clymer and IWC's Chief Design Officer Christian Knoop at the IWC Madison Avenue Flagship boutique. The main attraction was undoubtedly the deep blue dial of the new Ingenieur Automatic 40 (Ref.…