What do you do as a brand when you’ve discontinued one of your references but people keep asking for it? Well, if you think anything like the people at Nomos do, you bring that reference back, of course. There’s a challenge, though, because you want to bring the design up to today’s standards and not…

Earlier this week, in a beautiful villa nestled in the verdant hills of the Central California coast, Louis Vuitton unveiled its latest timepiece: the Louis Vuitton x Akrivia LVRR-01 Chronograph á Sonnerie, a horological marvel made in partnership with renowned watchmaker Rexhep Rexhepi. It’s the first of a series of collaborations — five, to be…

It has been just over five years since the announcement of Leica’s watch debut with the L1 and L2 in 2018. And though you might know the brand primarily for its high-end cameras and lenses, that’s not all that it has put its expertise in mechanical manufacturing into. To call it “dabbling in horology” would…

There are very few instances in which a timepiece enthusiast is looking for practicality when spending several hundred thousand dollars. In a lot of ways, this is a similar concept to wanting practicality in a luxury exotic car. Like vehicles, most exotic and complicated wristwatches are beautiful but often not ideal for daily wear. In…

Whenever a new watch is released, we always try to compare it to another that already exists. The Longines Spirit Flyback was released in titanium last week, and we happened to have the complete Tudor Pelagos FXD lineup in the office for a photo shoot. Both the Tudor Pelagos FXD Chrono and the new Longines…

The world of horology and watch collecting is an intriguing realm where passion, craftsmanship, and history converge. This past week, Hodinkee Insurance had the opportunity to delve into this fascinating universe during the exhibition “Time & Space: Watches from the Collection of Glen de Vries” preview at Hindman Auctions. Glen de Vries’ remarkable watch collection…

Sponsored post presented on aBlogtoWatch for advertiser If you were a kid in the 1980s, there’s a good chance you owned a Casio Databank — or at least wanted one. And while Casio may have popularized the calculator watch, thanks in no small part to Marty McFly sporting a CA53W Twincept Databank in Back to…

While Breguet offers a number of different complex horological mechanisms, the tourbillon is arguably its signature complication, as it was first invented in 1801 by Abraham-Louis Breguet himself. Over the years, the tourbillon has often played a central role in Breguet’s catalog, and for 2023, the historic Swiss watch manufacturer has created two new tourbillon…