The tiny automatic caliber 615 is inside a watch that recalls the original Ladybird from 1956. Sometimes fame and recognition for your work can be a long, slow burn. Certainly, this is the case for Berthe-Marie Fiechter, Betty to her friends and family, who was responsible for turning Blancpain into a successful supplier of movements...

Hublot’s latest collab is with the art world’s Old Master –of controversy. Jeff Koons is one of the most controversial artists of the last half century, and I can’t think of a single artist whose work has been more consistently polarizing. A master of the rage economy before there was a rage economy, Koons’ work...

The two new watches celebrate the debut of Gérald Genta’s Ingenieur SL, in 1976. The Ingenieur from IWC was originally developed in the mid-1950s, and it was part of a post-war generation of antimagnetic watches designed for the use of engineers, scientists, and other professionals working around strong magnetic fields. This generation of watches included...

The new watch uses a non-repeating pattern only recently discovered – by an amateur mathematical hobbyist. The Central Impulse Chronometer watches from Lederer are among the most painstakingly thought-through examples of solving horological problems produced by any watchmaker today, and the technical solutions they present are answers to problems which are hundreds of years old....

 The launch includes new a Spin Time Antipode World Timer, and Spin Time Tourbillon. The Spin Time watches from Louis Vuitton are exceptional mechanicallyl, and they’re also unique to Louis Vuitton. The Spin Time complication was conceived and developed by Enrico Barbasini and Michel Navas at La Fabrique du Temps, and the basis of the...

Watches you can enjoy with your eyes wide shut. Over the last few decades I have seen many watches which were designed to seduce, amaze or startle visually, whether through adherence to classical fine watchmaking design codes, unexpected materials or colors, or designs intended to overturn and reinvent our expectations of what a watch can...