Following several years of quietly building its watch program, Leica is continuing its push into premium mechanical watchmaking with a steady expansion of the Leica ZM 1 and Leica ZM 2 watch collections. These flagship pieces run on the brand’s first proprietary movements, the hand-wound Caliber...
After several years working closely with Greubel Forsey, Michel Nydegger has now spent a year and a half at the helm of the brand founded by Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey. With a deep, first-hand understanding of the manufacture, its philosophy, and its people, Nydegger offers a thoughtful...
Louis Vuitton’s third independent watchmaking collaboration pairs a travel focused GMT wristwatch with a modern Sympathique clock that can wind and synchronise it, then wraps the whole thing in a set of bespoke titanium trunks.
Hermès expands the Squelette Lune range with two new titanium and platinum models displaying the lunar cycle as seen from both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The earlier Slim d’Hermès Squelette Lune combined a 39.5mm bead‑blasted Grade 5 titanium case with a polished platinum bezel. The...
You’ve got to hand it to Papar Watch Co.; the young American brand certainly has a unique way of doing things. It all started with the radically brutalist Anillo GMT, and now the Cenote debuts. The Cenote Titanium + Blue and Rose Gold Titanium are dive watches with a design that builds on the...
Here’s the third of the five collaboration watches done by Louis Vuitton with some of the most revered independent watchmakers. Indeed, following the LVRR-01 Chronographe à Sonnerie made with Rexhep Rexhepi, founder of Atelier Akrivia, and the LVKV-02 GMR 6 made with Finnish-born watchmaker Kari...
In 2025, the company known today as Leica celebrated the 100th anniversary of releasing its first production camera. As early as 1914, the company founded by Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, Germany, already had its first prototype of what would become a major revolution in the world of optics and...
Welcome back to another installment of Back to Basics, our series aimed at newcomers to the watch world. This time, we’re looking into watches that set a good starting point for a collection. Which watches make for a good “first real watch”? I will provide a selection of different categories....
