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Tudor Relaunches The Cult Favorite Northflag, Now With GMT Complication And Master Chronometer Certification

The Northflag of your dreams awaits. The original version of the Tudor North Flag was launched at Baselworld in 2015 as the first Tudor watch to feature an in-house movement. The caliber MT5621 with a 70-hour power reserve, was chronometer certified by the COSC and had a 70 hour power reserve, with an on-dial power...

Jack Forster5 Min ReadSep 1 2026

Vacheron Constantin’s Métiers d’Art Tribute To The Animal Kingdom Combines Nature And Rare Crafts

Six new watches, six handcrafts seldom if ever found in watchmaking. The general vocabulary of decorative arts used in watchmaking, for obvious reasons, has considerable overlap with the jeweler’s art, and includes various type of engraving and engine-turning, enameling, gem-setting, inlaying, and so on. This new series of six watches from Vacheron Constantin does things...

Jack Forster12 Min ReadAug 30 2026

The MING 57.05 Comet: A Worldtime Watch With An Ingenious Daylight Saving Time Solution

The MING 57.05 Comet’s answer to DST is patent pending, and exceptionally clever. One of the longest-standing, and most intractable problems, in the design of world time watches, is the problem of taking account for time zones that switch between standard and summer time, or Daylight Saving Time (DST). While there are a few watches...

Jack Forster5 Min ReadAug 26 2026

Blancpain Launches The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe 70th Anniversary Limited Edition

A vintage inspired daily diver, with a thoroughly modern engine under the hood. Blancpain stands out in a number of ways but one of the most notable, is that it has a quite incredible range of watches. In November of last year, it launched one of the most complex and sophisticated chiming complications of the...

Jack Forster5 Min ReadAug 20 2026

Louis Vuitton and Singer Hit The Road With A Pair Of ‘Reimagined’ 911s, And Timepieces To Match

What started out as a dash clock collab turned into a soup-to-nuts partnership. Last weekend, we took a look at the latest watch from Singer Reimagined, which is a very smart take on the idea of casing a new old stock movement – in this case, Valjoux 72 chronograph calibers – in a design that...

Jack Forster9 Min ReadAug 13 2026

History of Time

The Secret History Of The Quartz Chronometer Girard-Perregaux Laureato

The early history of Switzerland’s first certified quartz chronometer. The Laureato is a well known watch, but with somewhat enigmatic origins. The Laureato was born in 1975 and you might say it was a bit of a child of the quartz crisis. By 1975 it was clear that from a technical standpoint, mechanical horology was...

Jack Forster6 Min ReadAug 10 2026

Introducing The Singer Heritage V72 Chronograph, With Restored Valjoux 72 Calibers

Singer’s restomod take on one of the all time great chronograph movements. If you’re interested in movements at all, chances are you already know about the Valjoux 72 caliber. This is one of the most famous, classic, column wheel and lateral clutch chronograph movements ever made, and it has been used by a who’s who...

Jack Forster6 Min ReadAug 8 2026

My Summer Jewelry Uniform

The pieces I keep reaching for … I have always believed that summer jewelry follows different rules. The best pieces aren’t necessarily the most precious or the most elaborate. They’re the ones you reach for without thinking: the necklace you forget to take off before jumping into the pool, the earrings that somehow work with...

Eleonor Picciotto3 Min ReadAug 6 2026