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Introducing: The Audemars Piguet Diamond Outrage (Yes, Really)
When you hear "Audemars Piguet," you likely think of a Royal Oak. Or maybe a vintage minute repeater. What you probably don't think about is a diamond-encrusted spikey thing that somehow fits on a wrist, but that is exactly what Audemars Piguet is giving us with this piece. Allow me introduce you to the Diamond Outrage, a haute joallerie watch that brings me both joy and fear, at the same time. At this point, you might be thinking, "what is this thing?" Or maybe, "why am I reading about it here?" Well, give me a minute and I'll tell you C because Audemars Piguet does more than make awesome black ceramic perpetual calendar Royal Oaks?and high-tech minute rep...
Introducing: The MB&F HM7 Aquapod, The First Aquatic Horological Machine
MB&F launched the first Horological Machine in 2007, positioning itself as an independent watchmaker primarily interesting in futuristic design.?Ten years and eight Horological Machines later, (MB&F actually skipped over the HM7 a few months ago when it released the HM8), Max Bsser and his friends have remained steadfast in their mission, creating watches that look as if they were made without any standard watch parts at all. That is not longer true after today. The divers bezel is one of the most instantly recognizable elements of modern watchmaking, and, in a departure from form, Bsser has made it one of the chief design elements of the HM7.? O...
Introducing: The Baume & Mercier Clifton Club, A New Collection Of Dive Watches
Baume & Mercier has just released a new collection of sports watches for the "gentlesportsmen" of the world. I give to you the Clifton Club. The Clifton Club is a nice addition to one of the more affordable Richemont brands' portfolios, offering up a sporty, casual vibe with some pops of color. The Clifton Club is available in five versions at launch and here's a first look at them all. At first glance, the Clifton Clubs might all look similar, but there are a few things that set them apart. First there's a pair with stainless steel cases and bracelets, one with black dial and bezel and another with blue dial and be...
Introducing: The Montblanc TimeWalker Chronograph UTC
Montblanc is revamping the TimeWalker collection this year, and as a part of the reimagined collection has released the TimeWalker Chronograph UTC. The new chronograph is a welcome addition to the sporty collection known for its oversized black DLC-coated cases and mix of complications. The new Chronograph UTC comes in a 43mm DLC-coated case with black ceramic elements as well. The watch features a new black ceramic uni-directional rotating bezel with 24-hour indication. The black dial is laid out like an old car dashboard with two vertically aligned subsidiary dials for the chronograph, one a 30-minute register and the other a 12-hour register. The chronog...
Laurent Ferrier's watches are some of the most sophisticated and understated around. Until now, if you wanted to admire one of the master's incredible double hairspring tourbillons, you'd have to ask the wearer to take the watch off his or her wrist (or take it off your own wrist, if you're a very lucky person indeed), as the Galet Classic Tourbillon was only available with a closed dial. That ends today. Laurent Ferrier has just unveiled the first Galet Classic Tourbillon with a tourbillon visible on the front C and it's through a sector dial, no less! The basics of this watch are no different from previous Galet Classic Tourbillon models. The white gold c...
Introducing: The Piaget Altiplano 40mm With Patinated Grey Dial (And New 1203P Movement)
This year is the 60th anniversary of the Altiplano and we know there are going to be quite a few commemorative watches from Piaget to celebrate. In fact, we've already shown you two of them. Now we've got another to share, the 40mm Altiplano with a patinated grey dial and the brand new in-house 1203P movement. Aesthetically, this watch is very much an Altiplano. There's no mistaking it for anything else. The white gold case is complemented by the new patinated slate grey dial, which is radially brushed and supposedly takes on very different tones in different lighting, looking warmer or cooler than it does in the image here. Below the Piaget signature, you'...
Introducing: The A. Lange & Sohne Zeitwerk Decimal Strike
The Zeitwerk family of watches is one of Lange's most recognizable, even if it's not quite as iconic for Lange as the Lange 1. Two chiming versions have been produced: the Zeitwerk Striking Time, which chimes on the hour and on the quarter hours, and the Zeitwerk Minute Repeater. The latter is a so-called decimal repeater; rather than chiming the hours, quarter hours, and minutes past the quarter hour, it chimes the hours, number of ten minute intervals past the hour, and number of minutes past the last 10 minute interval.?Now we've got a third chiming Zeitwerk: the Decimal Strike, which chimes on the hour, and also at every ten minute interval. ...
Introducing: The Greubel Forsey Signature 1 Now In Platinum C Is This The Ultimate Time-Only Watch?
It was this week last year that Greubel Forsey, makers of arguably the most high-end watches on planet earth, made their most low-end watch. But their most low-end watch turned out to be, in fact, the most high-end time-0nly watch in the world. It's called the Signature 1, and this time-only was easily in my top three for SIHH 2016 because it took all of the gross over-engineering and attention to detail for which GF is known in its tourbillons and applied it to a relatively simple watch with just hours, minutes, and seconds.? The Signature 1 will be made in just 11 pieces in platinum, 66 in all metals combined. Last year, the...
Watchmakers regularly introduce existing watches in new colors and new metals. Sometimes this feels like incremental news, and sometimes it feels like you're getting a whole new watch. These two releases definitely fall into the latter camp. A day before SIHH 2017 officially starts, Audemars Piguet has unveiled both the Royal Oak Tourbillon Extra-Thin and the Royal Oak Chronograph in combination titanium and platinum iterations. Yeah, we're excited too. When the Royal Oak was first unveiled in 1972, it was its steel construction and the high degree of finishing on the steel case and bracelet that really set it apart from everything that had come before. Now...
The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Extra Thin Openworked first debuted at the 2012 SIHH in platinum, and at the 2016 SIHH HODINKEE's Cara Barrett introduced us to the yellow gold version. This year, AP is releasing the watch in two new metals: stainless steel and pink gold. AP has also announced that these are the last two watches that will offer the AP Royal Oak Tourbillon Extra-Thin Openworked with this particular skeletonized movement design. As Cara mentioned in her 2016 story, the first skeletonized AP was a 1921 pocket watch and the first skeletonized Royal Oak was made in 1986, so these are participants in a long, storied tradition. "Openworkin...
All of the novelties we are about to see at the Palexpo this week take roughly the same amount of space inside the exhibition hall, but some of the watches will have a little more presence than others. This is one such watch. The Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 24 Secondes Vision in platinum, with a salmon dial. The Tourbillon 24 Secondes Vision was introduced two years ago as Greubel Forsey's smallest, thinnest, and most affordable tourbillon, and it was rightly awarded the industrys top prize, the Aiguille dOr during the 2015 edition of the Grand Prix dHorlogerie de Genve. In the final months...
Introducing: The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Diver In A Suite Of New (Bright) Colors
In case you haven't caught on yet, almost every family of Royal Oaks is getting some kind of revamp this year. The Royal Oak Offshore Diver C like both the Royal Oak Chronograph and Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph C is getting a few new colorways, though, unlike the others, the focus is on bright hues instead of two-tone executions. Here are five new Divers that will feel familiar but look brand new. The Diver first burst onto the scene back in 2010 and it's gone though a number of iterations, including versions in ceramic and forged carbon (to name just a few). Last year the Diver Chronograph was updated in colors like lime green and acid yellow (AP's names...
Introducing: The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph Collection Gets A Few Updates
Last week at SIHH we showed you the new Royal Oak Chronograph collection, but Audemars Piguet has decided to freshen up the chronographs in the Offshore collection too. To be clear, the original Offshore was the first Royal Oak chronograph some two decades ago. But, I digress. Just as is the case with the new Royal Oak Chronograph lineup, the changes here are mostly cosmetic, with Audemars Piguet introducing new case and dial combinations, including several two-tone options and one in solid platinum. Audemars Piguet is sticking with the two case sizes that have been available since 2014, 42mm and 44mm, in a variety of metals including stainless steel, gold, ceram...
Introducing: The Roger Dubuis Excalibur Spider Pirelli With Double Flying Tourbillon Limited Edition
The always-bold Roger Dubuis has announced its newest watch and it's a partnership with racing tire maker Pirelli. The two brands have teamed up to create the new and blue Excalibur Spider Pirelli with double flying tourbillon in a limited series of just eight pieces. In addition to this colorful and unusual timepiece, Roger Dubuis has confirmed that it will be releasing new watches exclusive from the Excalibur collection through 2019. So, what is so special about the limited edition Excalibur Spider Pirelli? Let's take a look. If you are familiar with Roger Dubuis at all, you are definitely already familiar with the Excalibu...
Introducing: The Ulysse Nardin Freak Innovision 2
The Ulysse Nardin Freak has been with us for 16 years now, and while it seems a firmly entrenched part of the modern watch landscape, familiarity still hasn't reduced its impact. There have been numerous reinterpretations of the Freak over the years, and for SIHH 2017 Ulysse Nardin is introducing the Innovision 2 C the name of course means that this is the second Freak to bear the Innovision name. The original Innovision came out in 2007 and at the time it was released it was the most radical departure yet from the original Freak (which was pretty radical to start with). The basic Freak is a watch with the entire going train ...
Introducing: The IWC Da Vinci Tourbillon Re?trograde Chronograph (Live Pics, Pricing, Specs)
The Da Vinci Tourbillon Re?trograde Chronograph is one of the flagship models in the revamped-for-2017 Da Vinci collection. The watch features a flying tourbillon, a retrograde date display, and a flyback chronograph, all powered by a self-winding in-house movement with several interesting technical features. It's also got all the aesthetic hallmarks of the new Da Vinci collection too, so let's take a closer look. One of the more interesting aspects of the watch is the tourbillon C this is a flying tourbillon, which is fitted with a stop-seconds feature, to allow to-the-second accurate setting of the watch. It's a peculiarity...
Introducing: The Laurent Ferrier Montre cole, A New Case For A Modern Masterpiece Of A Movement
One of the very first brands I always pay a visit to each trade show is Laurent Ferrier. This has been the case for some years now, since 2013 or before. It's not that I expect to see some new cutting edge technology C LF's tourbillon and micro-rotor calibers are a few years old now and haven't been tweaked much since inception. Rather, it's that I am often genuinely excited to see how Ferrier will package these two outstanding calibers. So much has been done with dials over the years, and now we see a third case style that is being called "Montre cole," or school watch.? Following the Galet and Galet Square, Montre cole is a totally round watch with exte...
Three years ago, I was told that Zeitwerk was to become the family of complications. The next year we saw a minute repeating Zeitwerk and I started to understand. Just yesterday, Jack told you about the new Zeitwerk Decimal Strike which is somewhere between a minute repeater (which is a decimal repeater capable of chiming the minute) and the original and existing striking time, which chimes only on the hours and quarters To many, it feels like a "whatever" product because it is neither here (a traditional complication like a perpetual or chrono) nor there (a true high end comp like a minute repeater), but rather right in the middle. It is a middle high complication, if that makes any sense. ...
The F.P. Journe Vagabondage III is the third in Journe's series of tortue-case shaped jumping time Vagabondage watches, and it's the most exposed, with much of the mechanism for advancing the time disks open to view. Not only that, it's the very first wristwatch with a jumping digital seconds indication, which I would have bet real money was impossible, thanks to the energy needed to jump the disks. It's also going to be the very last Vagabondage watch, according to Journe. The F. P. Journe Vagabondage III is the world's first jumping digital seconds wristwatch. The very first Vagabondage ...
The first day of the SIHH is also the day that everybody lets their new product announcements out into the world, and although the day's barely half over for those of you on the East Coast of the USA, here's a short list of some of the most significant releases so far. New releases and stories are coming in (as is par for the course on the first day of the SIHH) almost by the minute, but the articles we've got for you down below should help you get started catching up. Keep your eyes out for new stuff and as always, if you want to stay on top of what our team's up to in Geneva, follow us on?HODINKEE Live. The Montblanc TimeWalker Chronograph UTC ...