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Spot the Watch!: Andrea Pirlo
Andrea Pirlo and his collection of watches
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Pre- SIHH 2015: Ralph Lauren Introduces 39mm Sporting Classic Chronometer
Ralph Lauren’s watch collection will, we hear, introduce a significant number of new models this year, and as an introduction we’ve been vouchsafed a first look at a 39mm edition of the Sporting collection’s Classic Chronometer. This is, as they say, exactly what it says on the tin: a 39mm version of the Sporting Collection’s […]
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Pre SIHH 2015: IWC celebrates the 75th birthday of an icon: The Portugieser
IWC celebrates the 75h Birthday of the Portugieser with a new and updated collcection
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IWC Pilot Chronograph Top Gun: An Airman’s Perspective (Part 1): The Collector’s View
As some of the readers may know, I am currently an Airman (not a pilot though) in the Republic of Singapore Air Force. Being a watch enthusiast, I tend to observe and interact with other airmen, and gaining an insight on the kind of watches that they are wearing. This sort of leads me to question the existenceRead More
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moVas Oceaner 1: “In-depth” Review
The history of dive watches date back to 1950s, when Blancpain and Rolex came up with the Fifty Fathoms and the Submariner respectively. These are not just mere devices that tell time; they are tool watches that provide information to assist people in carrying out their work. They were also immensely popular, due to their robustnessRead More
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An Act Of Elegance: Svend Andersen Montre à Tact
Haven’t we all been there? That boring speech, that meeting that seems to be going on and on, yet to nowhere at the same time? Moments when you have that deep urge inside you to check the time, as a glimmer of hope for when it will all be over? An urge you fight profoundly […]
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Dial Designer Xavier Magaldi Merges Haute Horlogerie With Street Art
You might not expect it but within Patek Philippe’s design department works a genuine and actually quite famous artist; Xavier Magaldi. This by itself might not come as such a surprise, but Magaldi is not into still life paintings or even creations of a more impressionistic nature, no, Magaldi is into street art! Though not […]
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Revolution Magazine Celebrates 10th Anniversary, New Look For UK Edition In London
Gallerist Richard Gauntlett, Revolution contributor Simon de Burton, Ken Kessler and Mimi Nishikawa On 10 December, the Rosewood London was the venue for the unveiling of the re-designed Revolution UK. The event – hailed by Zeina Dakak of Finch and Partners as “one of the best of the year” – also marked the tenth anniversary […]
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SIHH 2015: Piaget Announces Record Breaking Altiplano Chronograph
Watch enthusiasts and -connoisseurs look forward to it perhaps even more then Christmas; the announcements regarding the upcoming SIHH. What new watch wonders will be waiting for us in the next year? When it is up to Piaget, more of the same. More of the same record-breaking, ultra-thin delights commonly known as watches. Like a […]
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URWERK UR-105M in Daily Life
Last February I visited URWERK in Geneva and while I was talking to Press Manager Yacine Sar, about the UR-210, she surprised me completely by presented me the brand new UR-105M, that was still under embargo. I did make some quick shots for Suzanne Wong’s article, that appeared a few weeks later on the RevoOnline […]
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Robin’s Christmas wishlist, 5 presents for the horologist
Check out some of our Christmas gift ideas for the watch geek this festive season, featuring products from Sinn, Buben-Zorweg, Cartier, Swatch, and JLC!
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Chester’s Christmas wishlist, 5 presents for the horologist
Don't know what to get for christmas? Here's 5 ideas for you~ Jaeger lecoultre perpetual calendar, a Lange Datograph, a Grand Seiko and more...
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MB&F;: LM1 now available in platinum
The MB&F; Legacy Machines have expanded over the years from the initial series of LM1 to LM2 and the new-ish entry level LM101. When the LM2 was launched in 2013, the watch was presented in red and white gold versions. And now a platinum version joins the collection. The striking blue dial on the newRead More
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A. Lange & Söhne Saxonia: New design accents for SIHH 2015
The Lange Saxonia was one of the four original watches introduced a bewildered watchmaking world in 1994. The other 3 being the now iconic Lange 1, the visually arresting Arkade and the technical showcase Pour le Mérite Tourbillon. Three new models have been announced in this pre-release: the Saxonia, the Saxonia Automatic and theRead More
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L.U. Chopard Engine One Tourbillon: Hands on Review
Automobile and horology have always been synonymous together; it is as though both of them shares an invisible but closely knotted bond since the day both of them crossed path. The L.U. Chopard, with a great provenance from the racing world, is no stranger to that too. And the Engine One Tourbillon is a culminationRead More
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From Big to Bigger – A Conversation With Jordy Cobelens of TW Steel
The world of horology is an interesting one, from masterful creations of movements to dials of every shape and size. We’d burn holes in our pockets to get that prized watch on our wrists and we’d know it was worth every single cent. But how wonderful it would be to have a watch to call your own […]
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Master Meets Masterpiece: Benzingers Personal Take On IWC’s Tourbillon Mystère
They are no strangers to each other; Jochen Benzinger teamed up with IWC to create for example the quite outrageous Portuguese Tourbillon Mystère Squelette. Outrageous in a sense that it simply makes you want to head straight to the marina, raise the main sail and set on a course to India, while parking yourself on […]
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Hublot – Offical Timekeeper For The 2015 Cricket World Cup With New Brand Ambassador Michael Clarke
Hublot has certainly had a magnificent 2014 with one of the year’s biggest highlights being the brand’s status as the Official Timekeeper of the FIFA World Cup. With Hublot being ever vigilant for opportunities to partner itself with the most relevant sporting teams, events and individuals, the brand has certainly pushed ahead among them all to […]
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Racing Time Belgium Style With Raidillon
Some prefer the Nordschleife, others the city streets of Monaco, or Laguna Seca with its unique cork screw. Me, I prefer the winding race track of Spa-Francorchamps, in the heart of the Belgium Ardennes. High speeds and a technically very difficult lay-out, it is here that man and machine have been tested, pushed to, and […]
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Hautlence Adds More Colour To Their ‘Avant Garde’ Series
Last month we did the article ‘Coloured Dials‘ and showed you some past and current examples by the various watch brands. Coloured dials have always been around but during the last years we have seen them more and more. Hautlence even takes it a step further and adds now more colour to their new HL […]
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Montblanc Star Twin Moonphase – Once In A Blue Moon
In many cases, watches that have the moonphase complication suffer from exactly the same problem as many chronographs: their dial layout is almost identical with one another. Not that this is so much a problem. This layout is often very practical and pleasing to the eye, but this does not diminish our craving for something […]
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Interview With Franc Vila of Franc Vila Watches
REVOLUTION recently had a chance to catch up with Franc Vila, founder and owner of the brand that bears his name. A brand most watch connoisseurs know from its lavishly styled, slightly eccentric and often quite complicated watches. Operating outside the mainstream, this young brand has obtained a following of their own, and Franc Vila […]
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Beware, Curves Ahead – MB&F;’s Horological Machine No.6 Makes Its Debut
“It is super high end watchmaking meets super high end micro engineering.” That’s how Max Büsser sums up the new Horological Machine No.6 that was just unveiled in Singapore today. MB&F; has been playing a major role on the stage of high-end watch making for several years now, and its latest reveal, also known as […]
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MB&F; Horological Machine 6: Hands on Review
Mankind has always been fascinated by the universe since the beginning of time. Great men, such as Galileo, Neil Armstrong, and Stephen Hawking, have immersed themselves into finding the answers pertaining to one of the greatest mysteries ever known to humans. While the MB&F; HM6 (also known as the Space Pirate) does not give us the answers to theseRead More
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Vacheron Constantin Opens New Boutique in Singapore
Brace yourselves all you watch collectors and enthusiasts of the brand! One of the oldest Swiss watchmaking manufactures in the world, Vacheron Constantin opens a second boutique in Singapore, this time in the heart of the city’s main shopping district on Orchard Road. With more than 2,000 square feet of floor space, the lavish boutique is set to […]
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Chopard’s Universe Of Clocks
While many watch connoisseurs have a wide variety of watches and change them often, the clocks in one’s house tend to stay where they were initially placed. They truly become daily companions, timing the pace of life at one’s home. Most watch brands have, over the span of their existence, flirted casually or more seriously […]
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Cartier Releases Two New Steel Watches, In The Rotonde Series!
Cartier just released two very interesting ‘Rotonde de Cartier’ models and I was very pleased that I had a chance to see and handle them last week, in the Amsterdam Cartier Boutique. The ‘Rotonde de Cartier’ is one of the newer models, in the Cartier collection and dates back to 2006, when Cartier introduced this […]
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Blancpain Debuts New Fifty Fathoms Watch Alongside Environmental Initiative
The story of the Fifty Fathoms and Blancpain’s love affair with the oceans begins in 1953. Unlike a great number of contemporary dive watches, which are sea-worthy only in name, the Fifty Fathoms was forged in the crucible of actual dive experience. In 1952, war hero Capt. Robert “Bob” Maloubier was in the process of […]
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Labor Of Love: Vintage Safes For Modern Day Life
There is a terrible downside to high end watches; that can attract the more criminal parts of our societies to obtain what it not theirs. That means that most brand boutiques and jewelry stores have more security measures then most banks. Before entering them you need to pass through bullet proof glass doors, opened by […]