Another Friday, another Top 5! This week, we continue our series of best-of-the-year lists as we cover the best watches from high-end independent brands in 2024. Expect to see an exotic group spanning a nice variety of designs and complications. Of course, five watches do not do justice to the many ones we could have…

Happy Friday, and welcome back to Bring A Loupe! Rewinding two weeks here to Thanksgiving week here in the States, our last standard edition of this column included some devastating personal news – losing access to my eBay account. The good news is that I’m back in after a few calls and a random address…

For the most part, Urwerk tends to embrace a fairly dark color palette consisting of black and gray, often punctuated by small colorful accents. However, for its latest release of 2024, the futuristic Swiss brand has embraced a crisp white aesthetic, and the new Urwerk UR-230 Polaris iterates upon the original UR-230 from last year…

Roughly six months ago, I penned my first article on a Venezianico watch. It was impressive considering I hadn’t heard of the brand. Since then, I’ve covered several of the company’s watches from a distance. I finally met the team and saw the watches in person at the WatchPro Salon 2024. Among the pieces we…

In 2021, Parmigiani Fleurier unveiled a refreshed Tonda line — pared-down, polished, and primed for the future. Four new models kicked off the collection: a chronograph, a split-seconds chronograph, an annual calendar, and the simplest of the bunch in the form of a time-and-date Tonda PF Micro-Rotor. Things have gotten even simpler for the range…

Among all watches, the Cartier Santos de Cartier is my muse. My Santos Galbée XL is my favorite watch in my collection, so I’m always curious to see what new variations will debut among the novelties at Watches and Wonders. This year was particularly exciting because Cartier announced the new Santos de Cartier Dual Time…

For a seventies moment, it looked like we could stem the Japanese tide with groundbreaking all-American futurism. The Pulsar Time Computer was the world’s first digital watch and starred on The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson. With a “time screen” boasting a few seconds of glowing red LED digits at the push of a button,…

During last month’s WatchPro Salon 2024 in London, we met with Horage and saw several pieces from the brand’s upcoming Omnium K2 collection. Due to a faceted crystal, these watches are a notably different take on a dress watch. I came away impressed with the creative approach. Horage has been in business for 15 years,…