Friday, Dec 4 2015
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BEST FROM: aBlogtoWatch & Friends December 4, 2015
We begin the penultimate round-up of the year with a visit to the manufacturing facilities of Bremont. We also explore the topic of vintage watches, take a close look at a very, very rare watch - the Patek Philippe Nautilus Ref. 5711 in platinum, talk about the importance …
Retro Racing-Inspired Belmoto Watches From Founder Of Magrette
Just announced, this is the new retro-inspired racing-themed brand, Belmoto, from the from the creator of the small but popular independent watch company Magrette. Belmoto expands on Magrette's retro military and dive designs, but now with a vintage car and racing theme... …
SIHH Preview: Richard Mille RM 67-01 Automatic Extra Flat
At SIHH 2016 next month, Richard Mille will launch a new watch styled after the brand’s original icon – the RM 010 – in a case that is only 7.75 mm thick. The RM 67-01 Automatic Extra Flat is sleeker and presumably more comfortable than the RM 010, without giving up the …
Chronos Wearable, Make Your Watch Smarter
Chronos 03Wearable technology looks like it is here to stay, regardless of how some of us semi-luddites feel we don't need it. So if we are going to strap notification devices and fitness trackers to our bodies, do we want to do it through new devices, or as add-ons to what …
Six Cartier High-Complication Watches For SIHH 2016
Cartier is one of the few luxury Swiss watch brands that has consistently maintained both an extremely strong array of main collection offerings and a genuinely sophisticated, unique, and diverse line of haute horlogerie ultra high-end pieces. That arguably puts a lot of …
News: TAG Heuer Powers Red Bull Racing in 2016
TAG Heuer will announce this morning that it has taken over as the engine naming rights sponsor for Red Bull Racing, with the cars to now be known as Red Bull-TAG Heuer. Thanks to an alert reader at our Forums, we were the first English-language media to report that TAG …
Louis Cartier – King of Tanks
A Tank, Is A Tank, Is A Tank was Cartier’s slogan in 2013 when the Tank Anglaise was released. There was a huge presentation during the launch, that featured all the Tanks models that Cartier ever created. But there is only one Tank that is seen as the king of the …
Girard-Perregaux Vintage 1945 XXL Large Date And Moon Phases Watch Review
Like it or not, "vintage is in" – and while that promises plenty of tried and tested classic design elements and whatnot, many still struggle with getting this vintage revival thing right. The Girard-Perregaux Vintage 1945 XXL Large Date And Moon Phases (yes, that's the …
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: 4th December, 2015
This week has been fuelled by bad coffee, some truly epic hair metal (sorry-not-sorry to our neighbours) and a serious case of the hots for haute horology – like the Zeitwerk Minute Repeater, a true superstar of the watch world. Get ready for the rock edition of the Wind …
MY WATCH JOURNEY: Alan’s Tudor Pelagos
We’ve never done a watch journey as short as this before. When we spoke to Alan, he’d had his blue Tudor Pelagos (the first in Australia) for less than 24 hours. You see, Alan is the lucky entrant of the inaugural T+T reader survey who walked away with the award-winning …
