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Revolution
How will we be reading the time in the future? Biotechnical wrist implants, timekeeping in our clothing, or bespoke personal drones? Revolution delves into the future of watchmaking with a little help from some visionary designers.
Revolution
Bulgari once again shocks the world by presenting the thinnest automatic watch ever made, the Octo Finissimo. Revolution examines this unique Italian-Swiss brand that is doing things differently… with great success.
Time+Tide
The ‘Longines Time Machine’ is a series of videos exploring the Swiss watchmaker’s 185-year-old history. The Longines Time Machine has also proven itself to be quite erratic, because in Episode 2, we find ourselves landed in the present year; January 2017 to be exact, in London, at the World’s Best Racehorse Awards. Everybody knows that Longines and … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: Behind the scenes with Longines and the owners of Winx, who just won her 17th straight race appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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There’s a lot of love in the Time+Tide office for the Slim d’Hermès collection – it’s classic, classy and somewhat free from the Swiss traditionalism that constrains the rest of the fine watch industry. So we’re very happy to see Hermès continuing to expand this relatively young collection, this time with a new platinum-cased perpetual … ContinuedThe post HANDS-ON: The dark and mysterious Hermès Slim d’Hermès Quantième Perpétuel in platinum appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
Revolution
While the overall performance of this year’s Baselworld has prompted a round of self-reflection by the Swiss watch industry, there were still pockets of creativity to be found everywhere.
Deployant
As brands release increasingly complex watches to show watchmaking prowess, perhaps it's time we took a contrarian look at the genius of simple complexity
Two Broke Watch Snobs
A journey of epic proportions is taken by Kaz as he sojorns to the Seiko Miami Boutique to make one of the coolest limited edition Seiko divers ever released his. He catalogs his experience buying the watch - plus he gets to try some real japanese whiskey while stressing the important of developing a positive partnership with a brand that's special to him. In other news, Mike's wrist still longs for that sweet horological caress post watchfast.
Deployant
In creating the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms MIL-SPEC, little did Fiechter know that he was pioneering a new genre of watchmaking - professional dive watches.
Deployant
The new generation Zenith Defy El Primero range carries the watchmaking prowess of Le Locle while remaining anchored to the provenance of the original.
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We argued that Hublot is a serious watchmaker and the Baselworld 2017 Hublot MP-09 Tourbillon Bi-Axis is more proof of their undeniable watchmaking prowess
Time+Tide
If Rolex as a brand has mastered any single art – apart from watchmaking in practically all of its forms – it is to both meet and exceed expectations at every single Baselworld watch fair. Granted, this can be a baby step, like last year, when they singlehandedly turned Baselworld into Bezelworld. Or it can … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: The 4 Rolex watches that burned down the house on day 1 of Baselworld 2017 appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
Deployant
The Schaffhausen manufacture demonstrates why the H. Moser Endeavour Centre Seconds Automatic is an exemplar of the maison's watchmaking philosophy.
Deployant
For Baselworld 2017, we are excited to introduce Hajime Asaoka's new chronograph, the fifth original timepiece from the Japanese artisan.
Time+Tide
If you’ve ever looked down at your smart watch and thought, ‘If only I could change that case out for a real mechanical watch by a recognisable Swiss luxury watch brand,’ boy are you in luck because that’s exactly what TAG Heuer‘s new Connected Modular 45 allows you to do. Going one step further than … ContinuedThe post HANDS-ON: The TAG Heuer Connected Modular 45 appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
Revolution
The Breguet Tradition Dame is an excellent example of the brand’s commitment to combining fine watchmaking with incredible design, while adding horological innovation.
Time+Tide
TAG Heuer has just announced the “first luxury connected watch bearing the Swiss made label” and a new concept that allows you to change the smart watch module (the whole case, in other words) for a mechanical module; either a time-only automatic Calibre 5 or a COSC-certified chronograph Tourbillon Heuer 02-T. The concept of modularity also … ContinuedThe post BREAKING: The TAG Heuer Connected Modular 45 – a smart watch, a mechanical watch and a tourbillon, all in one appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
Revolution
Mr. Edouard Cottin, Roger Dubuis’ International Sales Director tells us how the brand is continuing to push its business and watchmaking edge in what is, otherwise, some of the industry’s toughest days.
Time+Tide
While the watches at SIHH change every year, one thing stays reassuringly the same, and that is the drama surrounding them. Sometimes it’s big, like the deregulation of the Swiss Franc. Sometimes it’s small, like a brand being a little too obsfucatory in a press release over the origins of a movement. This year everyone’s tongues seemed … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: Girard-Perregaux 2017 collection – the biggest controversy at SIHH? appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
Deployant
In Bulgari's Le Sentier home, the future and watchmaking legitimacy of the Italian brand is assured in the primacy of their extra-thin, and chiming watches.
Revolution
George Cramer speaks with Arnaud Carrez, Cartier’s International Marketing and Communication Director, and Carole Forestier-Kasapi, Cartier’s Head of Movement Creation to discuss watchmaking and doing watch business in 2017.
Time+Tide
Panerai kicked off 2017 with a bang. The brand that artfully bolts together ‘Italian design and Swiss precision’ showed a cohesive range with a strong material focus at SIHH in January. At the collection’s core was the mighty Luminor Submersible in many shapes and sizes. Andrew and I picked our three favourite takes on this … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: Panerai 2017 collection overview and our 3 favourites *post may contain traces of bronze* appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
Revolution
Increasingly, watchmaking looks to the technologies of other industries to improve the timepieces of today and tomorrow.
Revolution
Swiss manufacturer, Carl F. Bucherer’s brand ambassador, Chad Stahelski’s action film John Wick: Chapter 2 premieres in Los Angeles.
Time+Tide
For many years, the Nomos recipe for watchmaking success was straightforward: take clean-yet-quirky dial details with a few dashes of colour, set this against a neutral black or white backdrop and wrap the whole thing into a steel case. Not the most groundbreaking approach, but it’s certainly been effective in helping Nomos – once the definition … ContinuedThe post HANDS-ON: the Metro neomatik Champagner – a new look for Nomos appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
Time+Tide
Just over a week ago we broadcast the first ever episode of Apples to Apples, where Felix and I pick two similar watches, flip a Swiss franc to decide which one we’re going in to battle for, and then argue for a couple of minutes. This is part A of the process. Part B is where … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: People’s choice votes are in after the first episode of Apples to Apples, and it’s a whitewash… appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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For years IWC has staked its claim as being one of the biggest, baddest and most masculine of the major Swiss brands. Recently though, we’ve sensed a change in the wind. In 2014 they released the delicate Portofino, and last year their more petite pilot had women firmly in its sights. That’s set to continue for … ContinuedThe post GONE IN 60 SECONDS: The Da Vinci Automatic shows the gentler side of IWC appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
Revolution
We grow up surrounded by myths and misconceptions but, believe it or not, bulls are not angered by red, bats are not blind and you can swallow chewing gum without it strangling your internal organs. Watchmaking has its own stories, one of the most enduring being that women do not buy high-end mechanical wristwatches for themselves. Who better to bust the myth than Richard Mille himself?
Time+Tide
Today we’re taking another look at a video that explores the connection between tattooing and watchmaking with world-famous ink-master Benjamin Laukis. The watch in focus here is his TAG Heuer Calibre 18 Telemeter. Other watches in Ben’s enviable stable include an A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk and a Tiffany dialled Patek Philippe Calatrava. The man knows his … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: “I want something created by a person, not a production line” – 3 key quotes from a watch-obsessed tattooist appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
Revolution
The realization of the groundbreaking watch that the Freak was destined to be necessitated the use of materials never before used in watchmaking. And thus was born the age of silicon in horology. But who was it that proposed this space age material for use in a watch?
Revolution
The term “World Time” is an integral part of today’s watchmaking vocabulary, but its origins are relatively new in the grand horological scheme of things. Revolution Switzerland’s Sophie Furley takes a look at the history of the Patek Philippe World Time collections and the fascinating stories they have to tell, with a little help from Patek Philippe’s Head of Watch Development, Mr. Philip Barat.
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