This Richard Mille costs $603,000 USD. I could stop writing there, as such a price renders it almost completely irrelevant. For the relative bargain of $276,000 or less, you can get a skeletonized rose-gold tourbillon watch with rose-gold movement components from Audemars Piguet, Angelus, Artime, Zenith, or Girard-Perregaux. But buying (or just owning, I suppose…
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When it comes to Sinn, you know that any limited edition does not come without a special functionally inspired story behind it. It’s not in the brand’s nature to release a new LE “just because.” To celebrate its 20th anniversary of creating diving watches made of submarine steel, Sinn has come up with the new…
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The Tudor website has a new product section called “Daring Watches,” which is currently populated by just three models. Those include this year’s 2025 reference Tudor Black Bay Chrono “Flamingo Blue” M79360N-0024 and the previously released 2024 Tudor Black Bay Chrono Pink. The third watch is the Tudor Black Bay Ceramic Blue. The Daring Watches…
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Stainless steel is, alongside plastics, the most common material used for watch cases today. Indeed, stainless steel is the benchmark material that most of us enthusiasts will commonly encounter. That said, titanium has been steadily gaining traction as a watchmaking material, so today, I thought we should look at titanium versus steel and go through…
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This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, the guys are all in their respective Brady Bunch-like squares, and speaking of square, SpongeBob SquarePants watches are high horology! This segues quite nicely into Ariel’s experience as an attorney specializing in contracts and his article about what watch brands need from their owners. In his column, According to Ariel,…
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What We Know Frederique Constant is no stranger to collaborative releases, but their new project with the watch collector community (and habillage producer), Watch Angels, is a particularly strong one. The new limited edition Worldtimer Manufacture has been downsized from 42mm to just over 40mm, with a reshaped and brushed stainless steel case and a…
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Welcome back to Bring A Loupe, and happy Friday! This week’s selection starts with a watch I have never seen before, and I can imagine you haven’t either. Then, it moves on to some old classics from our friends at Cartier London and, of course, Movado. Buckle in. As for results from last week, I…
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Another Friday, another list! This week and next, I will be putting the spotlight on Zenith. To be a bit more specific, for this week, I picked my top five modern Zenith watches. Next week, I will put the spotlight on some of the brand’s best vintage models. These are somewhat self-indulgent lists because I…
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