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Due To The Growing Importance of the Asian Market, Fondation De La Haute Horlogerie will Revive the Large Scale Watches & Wonders Exhibition, This Time in Hong Kong!

Due To The Growing Importance of the Asian Market, Fondation De La Haute Horlogerie will Revive the Large Scale Watches & Wonders Exhibition, This Time in Hong Kong!

Long overdue and a natural step to respond to the growing importance of the Asian market in the luxury watch industry, Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie will bring the most prestigious international watch exhibition outside Switzerland to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center this September. The Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie is the organiser behind the massive […]

First Look: SIHH 2013 Fine Watchmaking And Metiers D’Art Masterpieces From Cartier

Cartier Highlights from Jan 23, 2013

First Look: SIHH 2013 Fine Watchmaking And Metiers D’Art Masterpieces From Cartier

Highlights from the Cartier Presentation at the SIHH 2013. Cartier’s Mystery Tourbillon –in the grand tradition of the famous mystery clocks. It’s actually a double tourbillon –the sapphire mystery disk carries the inner tourbillon carriage. The lovely Double Jumping Second Time Zone. Regulator style hands; two jumping hour indications for home and local time; […]

Keep Your Watches Safe: The Buben & Zorweg Titan

Titan Jan 18, 2013

Keep Your Watches Safe: The Buben & Zorweg Titan

I own a handful of real watches. When I say real, what I mean is luxury timepieces; and while a massive watch safe isn’t something that might fit my budget or collection (I don’t own that many watches worth that kind of protection), I believe that there are watch aficionados (like my boss, Wei) with […]

Making A Home Out Of A House: A History Of Cartier Clocks

Cartier Clocks First post Jan 17, 2013

Making A Home Out Of A House: A History Of Cartier Clocks

First post in the new year and let’s not start as usually, with an article about watches. Believe me there will be loads of ‘watch’ news in two weeks from now and there after. Last year we did a large article about Cartier Alarm clocks, the small ones from the eighties with mechanical movements and […]

DeBethune DB27

DeBethune DB27

Being a seasoned watch collector means that nothing much takes my breath away these days…but today’s post is one such watch…so unusual, but without being overtly so. So beautiful, but yet, retains some of the charm of being slightly quirky. So refined and well finished, yet a bit garage-home made feel. Bravo David Zanetta andRead More

Leonardo DiCaprio's The Wolf Of Wall Street Watch & Film Review - Tag Heuer 1000 Vintage 984.013

The Urban Gentry May 17, 2016

Leonardo DiCaprio's The Wolf Of Wall Street Watch & Film Review - Tag Heuer 1000 Vintage 984.013

Girard Perregaux chronograph

Girard-Perregaux Dec 13, 2012

Girard Perregaux chronograph

Girard Perregaux makes beautiful timepieces…always have. Somehow, they manage to get the balance right to my eyes. Beautiful proportions. Today’s feature is on a chronograph – the GP Vintage Chronograph, owned by a good friend, who wanted to dress down the watch a bit, by using a NATO style strap on an otherwise dressy watch…makingRead More

Sneak Preview: Cartier watches SIHH 2013

Ulysse Nardin Dec 13, 2012

Sneak Preview: Cartier watches SIHH 2013

Carole Forestier-Kasapi, director of fine watchmaking at Cartier has been an industry trailblazer since her tenure at Ulysse Nardin. Having overseen the high profile ID concept watch project, Forestier-Kasapi has addressed some of haute horology’s nagging issues namely- lubrication and energy loss in geared movements. Since production of the exemplary Cartier Astrotourbillon and the Rotonde […]

The MB&F; HM5: hands on photographs and impressions

MB&F; Dec 4, 2012

The MB&F; HM5: hands on photographs and impressions

The long awaited HM5 by MB&F; is now revealed! These are one of the first photographs and commentary to reach the world…Max presented this watch to Singapore collectors on Dec 4, about 8pm, while the same is being presented across the world in the form of a press release about the same time. I managedRead More

Urwerk UR210: black or white?

Urwerk UR210 black or white? Nov 29, 2012

Urwerk UR210: black or white?

Presenting the latest Urwerk…the UR210. Last week, I wrote about how cool Urwerk watches were, and featured the progression of cool from the early years to the UR210. Today’s post will provide some additional high resolution photographs of the UR201. I find the visual impact of the watch to be quite amazing. It looks likeRead More

Jaeger LeCoultre Platinum 2

Jaeger-LeCoultre Oct 30, 2012

Jaeger LeCoultre Platinum 2

Back to regular programming…today’s post is on my personal watch…the Jaeger LeCoultre Platinum 2. A stealthy watch, if there ever was one. To the unintiated, this watch looks like a regular Reverso, with a beautiful grey dial, and power reserve. To the knowledgable, this is a sample of 500 piece limited edition, the movement isRead More

Top 5 Reasons Why You Should NEVER Buy Or Own A Fake/Replica/Counterfeit Watch

The Urban Gentry May 17, 2016

Top 5 Reasons Why You Should NEVER Buy Or Own A Fake/Replica/Counterfeit Watch

Jacquet Droz novelty: Bird minute repeater

Jacquet Droz novelty: Bird minute repeater

Special post today on a special watch. Exclusive pictures, now only available online from my friends at Watchonista. Unlike regular photographs featured in this blog, these series of photographs are done by Watchonista. Note copyright Watchonista. Also to ensure no confusion, they are 1000 pixels across, as compared to my original photographs which are alwaysRead More

Save The Date: AP Royal Oak 40 Years Exhibition

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Sep 28, 2012

Save The Date: AP Royal Oak 40 Years Exhibition

It has the distinct honour of having one of the first immediately recognisable watch case shapes out there- I am talking about the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak of course; but what few people know (and could learn more) about this horological icon is that the Royal Oak pulled Audemars Piguet from the brink of bankruptcy. […]

Ruling The Skies: IWC and Top Gun

IWC Sep 28, 2012

Ruling The Skies: IWC and Top Gun

The Advanced Fighter Weapons School In the 1970s, the Swiss mechanical watch industry was almost wiped out by an electronic threat called quartz technology, which instantly democratized accuracy in the form of cheap, Japanese-made watches. But ultimately, in the clash between soulless battery-operated machines and those handcrafted by human artisans, the mechanical watch won out, […]

Ghost in the machine: Richard Mille RM 056

Richard Mille RM 056 Sep 27, 2012

Ghost in the machine: Richard Mille RM 056

With all that he’s achieved on the movement front: the world’s lightest mechanical watch movements (tourbillons, no less, created with I-beam aluminum-lithium bridges), the first carbon-nanofiber and titanium baseplates, the first movement designed after the steel trellis frame of a Ducati motorcycle, the first movement with an orthorhombic-titanium-aluminide baseplate, inspired by the honeycomb inner structure […]

Aural Audacity

Cartier Minute Repeater Flying Tourbillon Sep 26, 2012

Aural Audacity

The Rotonde De Cartier Minute Repeater Flying Tourbillon Cartier has, over its 108-year history with the men’s wristwatch, occasionally produced some visually and aurally arousing timepieces. One such watch, a magnificent yellow-gold Tortue minute repeater from the 1920s, was proudly on display during the brand’s Time Art exhibition in Singapore, which traced its history in […]

BEHIND THE SCENES: Cartier Watch Certified Service Centre

Watchfinder & Co. May 17, 2016

BEHIND THE SCENES: Cartier Watch Certified Service Centre

The Game Changer: Hamdi Chatti

Louis Vuitton Watches was one Sep 24, 2012

The Game Changer: Hamdi Chatti

My interview with Hamdi Chatti, the vice president of Louis Vuitton Watches, was one of the most interesting of the 2012 Basel fair. The main topic of conversation related to this: I strongly believe that in the years ahead, the strongest and most established brands will only become stronger and continue to gain market share. […]

Smart Money Hot City, Cool Watches

Smart Money Hot City, Cool Watches

It’s an old story: boy meets dive watch, boy gets dive watch, boy gets a lot of snarky flak from people who ask him why he wears a dive watch when the deepest body of water he ever gets into comes in a porcelain tub, with spigots marked “Hot” and “Cold”. Oh, ye of little […]

Van Cleef & Arpels Bals De Légende

Van Cleef & Arpels Bals De Légende

William Cowper’s poem, The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk, popularized the phrase “the monarch of all I survey”. And in some ways, the world’s most legendary balls, which the iconic Parisian jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels has seen fit to pay tribute to with a series of exceptional watches, are each expressions of one individual’s remaking of […]

Clarity In Complication

Cartier annual calendar Sep 21, 2012

Clarity In Complication

The rotonde de cartier annual calendar is a robust and practical addition to the brand’s collection Thirty days hath September, April, June and November,” goeth the doggerel verse, reminding us of the irregularity of the Gregorian calendar - a verse which also serves to remind owners of mechanical watches with simple calendars that for five […]

Urban eXperiment: Jean Baptise Voit

Urban eXperiment: Jean Baptise Voit

Words by owner of watch. Photograph taken by me, by a window table in a restaurant in Dempsey Hill, Singapore. I bought this a few years ago while I was visiting Europe and Curtis Thomson advised me to visit the watchmaker Jean Baptiste Viot since France was my last stop. I tried to read upRead More

The Greatest Aviation Watch Of All Time? The Breitling Navitimer A23322 Luxury Watch Full Review

The Urban Gentry May 17, 2016

The Greatest Aviation Watch Of All Time? The Breitling Navitimer A23322 Luxury Watch Full Review

Watchmaker portraits: Stephen Forsey and Robert Greubel

Watchmaker portraits: Stephen Forsey and Robert Greubel

A series of portraits I took, with the intention to create a set for an exhibition. Master watchmakers are the soul of the industry, I wanted to capture some of that powerful character which makes them enigmatic to the watch collecting public. These are great genii who know how to work with their hands. Today,Read More

Omega Chronograph 1938 Museum Replica

Omega Chronograph 1938 Museum Replica Aug 3, 2012

Omega Chronograph 1938 Museum Replica

Omega recently added some watches to their collection which are homages to the watches that made the brand in the early years. Today’s watch is the Museum collection no 10, issued in 2010 as a replica of the 1938 chronograph. I am not so sure about the name Omega has chosen for this watch…replica soundsRead More

Vatiations on a theme: The amazing Urwerk UR-110ST

Urwerk UR-110ST DEPLOYANT - Jul 27, 2012

Vatiations on a theme: The amazing Urwerk UR-110ST

I have shown the amazing Urwerk UR-110 ST before…I have a piece in titanium on loan from the factory (thanks Yacine, Felix, Martin). And I thought to do some partial macros to show the beautifully sculputured watch. The watch is rather slim, as shown previously…see my SIHH report, but somehow Urwerk found enough space withinRead More

Breguet Double Tourbillon

Breguet Double Tourbillon DEPLOYANT - Jun 25, 2012

Breguet Double Tourbillon

When Breguet announced the Double Tourbillon in , I was skeptical. Skeptical because it sounded more like a showoff watch than one which has true horological significance and beauty. But recently, I was reacquainted with the 5347, and came away quite impressed. Breguet Classique Double Tourbillon Ref. 5347 The watch features a double tourbillon, eachRead More

Ladoire Black Widow

Ladoire Black Widow

Ladoire’s Black Widow Photographed on location in the Geneva Time Exhibition. I had some time to photograph the interesting Ladoire Black Widow. Known various as Mr. Green, Mr. Black according to the colour treatment of the bridges, the watch is quite interesting in the way it tells time…openworked dial, multilayered three regualtor off set hours,Read More

$The Ultimate Wild Card Watch? The New Dietrich OT-4 \$ Video

The Urban Gentry May 17, 2016

The Ultimate Wild Card Watch? The New Dietrich OT-4 \