The IWC Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar IW3750 from 1985 is an important watch for IWC and the entire Haute Horlogerie universe post-Quartz Crisis. Master watchmaker Kurt Klaus built a perpetual calendar mechanism on top of an automatic chronograph, which reignited interest in complicated horology and made people look at IWC differently. The innovative watch brought…

In 2024, Tissot released a new version of its Chemin Des Tourelles Skeleton watch. The three debut pieces in this collection are pictured in this article, and I think the Tissot Chemin Des Tourelles Skeleton is worth a close inspection for enthusiasts. Why? Because Tissot does a lot of things well in these watches, particularly…

Time flies when you’re having fun! It has been a full two years since I set off on an adventure to build my dream watch, the VPC Type 37HW. Fratello offered me the fantastic opportunity to chronicle and share the journey with you all. Today, after having fulfilled all preorders, I would like to finish…

Regulator watches are not often the first, second, or third pick for a collection. The watches with a large central hand to indicate the minutes and smaller sub-dials to display the hours and seconds are an acquired taste. This non-coaxial configuration might seem odd initially, but quickly enough, you will get used to reading the…

What We Know In October, Oris introduced a new ‘Divers Date’ line as it approached the 60th anniversary of one of its core modern collections – the Divers Sixty-Five – and cleaned up the quirkiness of the design for the modern era. Meant as the modern spiritual successor to the Divers Sixty-Five series released a…

In 1965, 61 years after Paul Cattin and Georges Christian founded the company, Oris revealed one of its most iconic models, the Oris Divers. Then, five decades later, it took the form of a heritage reissue called the Divers Sixty-Five. Today, it’s time to celebrate the original’s diamond jubilee with the presentation of the Oris…

What We Know Omega has dropped an “out of this world” update (sorry, I really couldn’t resist the pun) to the Omega Speedmaster Moonphase, now with a meteorite dial and lunar meteorite cabochons for the moon phases, showing both the northern and southern hemisphere moons. But it’s not just a visual overhaul. The watch comes…

Here we go with the Speedmasters. Omega has dropped an entirely new Speedy today, introducing two new moonphases, with new handwound movements, a double moon display, and meteorite dials. The Omega Speedmaster Moonphase Meteorite watches set themselves as the most wearable and perhaps the most attractive Speedmastyer Moonphase models available now. These are not the…