Since it was set up in 2010, Cartier’s Fine Watchmaking Club has served as the vehicle for communicating to the press every December the pending treasures to follow at Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) held in Geneva every January. As sneak previews go, the quality of the timepieces has always justified the melodrama. […]
The upcoming auction season has some pretty spectacular things on offer – none more so than the stainless steel 1518 at Phillips. The auction house has a bunch of other super high-end, super fancy stuff on offer too, like a Tiffany-signed Rolex 6263, a Cartier-signed Patek 1463, and some other steel Pateks and mega Rolex. […]
An extraordinary pair of unique Patek Philippe repeaters commission by the same client in the 1960s are now side by side at Phillips’ Hong Kong auction. In mid 20th century, a gentleman who lived in New York was the fortunate owner of a pair of unique cheap replica Patek Philippe watches minute repeating wristwatches, the […]
Turns out that Breguet, not content with nailing the brief when it comes to dress watches and innovating left, right and centre are also quite the dab hand when it comes to pilot’s watches. And they’re no Johnny-come-latelies at the genre, either. In fact, in the early 20th century, Abraham Louis Breguet’s grandson – Louis […]
With the L.U.C Full Strike, Chopard Watches’ high-end collection welcomes a minute repeater, a complication never explored by the brand, and launched as the crowning point of the celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the Chopard Manufacture. We’ve seen some tourbillons, some perpetual calendars with chronograph, super slim and eco-friendly watches previously, but never a […]
We’re not alone in our love of cheap replica Longines heritage offerings – the classic designs and smart prices make them consistently instant hits among watch enthusiasts, and every year we get some new treasure from the brand’s seemingly endless archive. We’ve had dive watches, pilot’s watches, even trench watches – but we’ve never seen […]
We are just two months ahead of the luxury watch fair SIHH 2017, so it was about time for a head-turner pre-event teaser, which in this case is the – you guessed it, vintage-inspired – cheap replica Panerai Radiomir 3 Days Acciaio Brevettato PAM685 and PAM687 watches. Some cool details here, so let’s take a […]
The rose gold Cornes de Vache 1955 joins the original in platinum, adding another vintage-remake chronograph to Vacheron Constantin’s offerings. Unveiled last year in platinum, the Historiques Cornes de Vache 1955 is a chronograph modelled on the 1950s replica Vacheron Constantin ref. 6087. The nickname cornes de vache, which translates as “cow horns”, stems from […]
The Vacheron Constantin Quai de I’Île was first launched in 2008, and at the time, it was both very much in the VC tradition of unusual designs, and also something of a departure and exploration of new territory. The most unusual feature of the Quai de I’Île watches was the modular construction of the Day-Date, […]
I remember the first cheap replica Vacheron Constantin watches I ever laid eyes on. It was in a magazine for an Australian retailer. It was an Overseas model and it was a chronograph, but thanks to an interesting take on the bezel, it didn’t strike me as ‘just sporty’ like chronos can be. It had […]
