Tourbillon

A. Lange & Söhne Revisits the Cabaret Tourbillon with Handwerkskunst Limited Edition

With the unveiling of its Cabaret Tourbillon in 2008, Germany’s A. Lange & Söhne presented a watchmaking milestone: the first tourbillon wristwatch with a stop-seconds mechanism for its rotating balance. The high-horology flagship of the Cabaret family, which was discontinued just two years later, the rectangular-cased timepiece makes its return in grand fashion this year,...

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Jul 13, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Promotion: From Stealth Fighter to Tourbillon — The Astronic Nighthawk

In 1964, Pyotr Ufimtsev, a Soviet mathematician, showed that the strength of the radar return from an object is related to its edge configuration rather than its size, considering a certain angle of edge and shape together with gravity; the legendary Stealth F-117 Nighthawk was developed by DARPA of the U.S. Department of Defense in...

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Jul 8, 2021 by WatchTime

Clockwork Orange: Five Watches With Orange Dials, Details, and Straps

As watches continue to embrace a wider range of color options for their dial, straps, and other details, orange remains relatively scarce in the expanding spectrum, though undeniably appealing to a core of loyal fans. Here are five timepieces where orange tones dominate. HUBLOT BIG BANG TOURBILLON AUTOMATIC ORANGE SAPPHIRE Hublot takes pride in...

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Jul 2, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Inspired by Ancestry: Exploring the Blancpain Villeret Collection

Blancpain’s Villeret collection channels the haute horlogerie roots of the world’s oldest watchmaking brand and continues to innovate with an array of grand and practical complications. We explore the collection’s origins, as well as its historical and modern highlights, in this feature from our October 2020 issue. The author Thomas Wolfe is often credited with...

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Jun 23, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Roads to Bridges: Girard-Perregaux Rolls Out its First Timepiece in Partnership with Aston Martin

Earlier this year, Girard-Perregaux joined the ranks of Swiss watchmakers partnering with luxury automobile marques, launching a new collaboration with Britain’s Aston Martin. This week, we discovered the first timepiece to emerge from the partnership, the Tourbillon with Three Flying Bridges – Aston Martin Edition, which merges a classical haute horlogerie innovation with avant-garde automotive...

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Jun 3, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Overseas Mission: The History and Evolution of the Vacheron Constantin Overseas

Vacheron Constantin’s sport-luxury Overseas collection, tracing its roots to an anniversary model in the 1970s, has become a versatile and resolutely modern cornerstone of the historical maison’s portfolio. The mid-1970s are widely regarded as a regrettable era for fashion, but one fashion accessory, the wristwatch, was having what is now acknowledged as a renaissance. More...

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May 21, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Gucci Turns 100 and Turns Up the Volume On its High Watchmaking

Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur Guccio Gucci founded his eponymous fashion house in 1921, and the first Gucci timepiece was released in 1972. Since then, Gucci has continued to produce watches alongside its array of other popular accessories, most of them notable more for their fashion-forward designs than for their level of horological ambitiousness. On...

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May 20, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Greubel Forsey Returns to the Sporting Life with Updated, Streamlined GMT Sport Model

When it comes to luxury sports watches, several well-known brands and their iconic models instantly come to mind: Audemars Piguet and its Royal Oak, Patek Philippe and its Nautilus, Vacheron Constantin and its Overseas, to name just a few of the obvious contenders. Ultra-high-end Greubel Forsey was an unlikely entrant to this field, but it...

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May 15, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Haute Utilité: Spotlighting Richard Mille’s Most “Practical” High Complications

The difference between Richard Mille and every other watch manufacturer that works with brand “ambassadors” can perhaps best be summed up in a visual from the sporting world of tennis. Picture a Grand Slam final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Federer’s left wrist is bare; his signature Rolex is hastily strapped on only in...

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May 11, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Grand Seiko: A Constant Force in Watchmaking

During the past six decades, Grand Seiko has constantly been pursuing the creation of the world’s most accurate wristwatch, pushing the development of quartz, mechanical and Spring Drive movements. Now, the Japanesegiant is ready to finally enter the haute horlogerie segment. In September 2020, Seiko Watch Corporation revealed the T-zero Constant-force Tourbillon (abbreviated as “T0”)...

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May 10, 2021 by Roger Ruegger

Corum Sails on Gilded Waves with New Admiral 45 Automatic Openworked Flying Tourbillon Carbon & Gold

Since Corum’s original Admiral’s Cup debuted in the 1960s as the quintessential timepiece for avid regatta fans and sailors, the model has become both a flagship (pun intended) of that Swiss watch brand and the foundation of an extensive and versatile modern collection, dubbed simply Admiral. The latest and most avant-garde evolution arrived at Watches...

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May 9, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

When Runway Meets Racetrack: IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Constant-Force Tourbillon Edition “IWC Racing”

Throughout its history, IWC Schaffhausen has been heavily involved in the world of aviation and also, to a lesser extent, in the world of motorsports. Until recently, the company’s work in the latter field exerted its influence mainly on one particular IWC watch family, the racing-inspired Ingenieur, while the modern evolution of the Pilot’s family...

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May 7, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

PORTFOLIO

Transitional Solutions: Six Watches with Gradient Dials

All of a sudden, they’re everywhere — watches with colorful gradient dials that transition from a pale hue in the center to a dark one at the periphery. In this excerpt from our upcoming WatchTime Design Issue 2020, on sale October 29, we offer you some highlights.

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May 7, 2021 by Alexander Krupp

Eye of the Tiger: H. Moser & Cie Endeavour Tourbillon Concept Tiger’s Eye

Always a brand known for making a statement, H. Moser & Cie unveiled one of its more interesting timepieces in recent memory, the Endeavour Tourbillon Concept Tiger’s Eye, at the recent Watches & Wonders virtual exhibition. A novel take on the now-familiar Endeavour design, it dresses up that model’s understated look with two bright new...

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May 5, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

It’s Star Wars Day! Check Out the Kross Studios x Lucasfilm Death Star Tourbillon Limited Edition

Every May 4, Star Wars fans the world over celebrate a secular holiday to commemorate the 1977 release of the very first film in the mega-popular franchise. This year, a few of those fans who are also serious watch aficionados can acquire a timepiece that is uniquely suitable to join their collections of Star Wars...

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May 4, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Four Faces Have I: Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Hybris Mechanica Calibre 185 is the Most Complex Reverso Ever

Back in 2006, Jaeger-LeCoultre created the Reverso Hybris Mechanica a Triptyque, possessed of three faces and a multitude of built-in horological complications. The most complicated evolution yet of the Reverso, Jaeger-LeCoulte’s legendary and enduring two-faced timepiece born in 1931, it prompted many of us who cover the watch industry to wonder if the venerable Swiss...

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Apr 30, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Vacheron Constantin Embraces Gold and High Complications in Three New Overseas Models

Alongside its other notable releases at the recently concluded Watches & Wonders exhibition, Vacheron Constantin added to its popular Overseas sport-luxury range two white-gold perpetual calendars and a rose-gold tourbillon. The updates follow-up 2020’s rose-gold Overseas Self-Winding, and rose-gold perpetual calendars, bringing even more higher-tier complications to the expanding Overseas collection. Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin...

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Apr 26, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Blue Tones Meet Titanium in New TAG Heuer Carrera Heuer 02T Tourbillon Chronograph

Five years ago, TAG Heuer grabbed headlines with the inaugural edition of its Carrera Heuer 02T, a COSC-certified chronograph watch equipped with a flying tourbillon and priced at a relatively accessible 15,000 Swiss francs — tens of thousands less than most other tourbillon watches. The company has built upon that model’s foundation to produce other...

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Apr 21, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

A Marvel of a Limited Edition: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept “Black Panther” Flying Tourbillon

While much of the watch media world’s attention was riveted to the recently concluded Watches & Wonders exhibitions, and the array of noteworthy timepieces making their debut there, independent high-watchmaking maison Audemars Piguet was making major news of its own, apart from the fairs in Geneva and Shanghai. On April 10, at a star-studded virtual...

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Apr 20, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Hublot’s Newest Big Bang Integral Tourbillon is Sapphire from Stem to Stern

Hublot’s expertise In making watch cases out of sapphire is, at this point, beyond reproach. The Nyon-based manufacture was the first watch manufacturer to produce such cases on an industrial scale, in 2016, and has remained a pioneer in that field during the five years since. “But what,” aficionados of such innovations might ask, “has...

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Apr 15, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

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