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A black-and-gold watch is hardly a new idea. It is one of those colorways that watch brands opt for whenever they want something to look slightly more serious, a bit more elegant, or simply a little more expensive. But that’s not what the new Daniel Roth Extra Plat Rose Gold G…
While there’s often a large net cast over the art of enamel, the craft is actually quite nuanced. Enamel can take many forms outside classic grand feu, from cloisonne to champleve, plique-a-jour, flinque, paillonnee, grisaille, and contre-jour. However, even within traditional…
The making of Swatch's iconic collaborations, and revisiting the Sistem51 factory in a new light.
Schwarz Etienne’s 1902 collection has evolved through a broad range of interpretations, including the Petite Seconde, Power Reserve and GMT models, all united by the Manufacture’s focus on in-house movement development and production in La Chaux-de-Fonds. The collection is a p…
For most watch enthusiasts, understanding how a mechanical movement works is largely an exercise in observation. Exhibition casebacks reveal the bridges, wheels, gears and balance wheel at work, while books and videos can explain what those components actually do. Taking a mov…
All that and more in this week's edition of Hodinkee's What's Selling Where column.
In 2020, Squale teamed up with Amsterdam Watch Company for a truly memorable collaboration: two “Fifty Fathoms” divers using NOS cases from the 1950s, originally manufactured by Squale for Blancpain (technically, this was pre-Squale, which was established in 1959, so the cases…
A Lange & Söhne’s 1815 collection honours the year of Ferdinand Adolph Lange’s birth with a lineup of traditional watches with design details inspired by Lange’s historic pocket watches. The seemingly straightforward 1815 Up/Down, with its power reserve indicator on the dial,…
We’ve said it before: not all chronographs are created equal, and few extend the limits of mechanical short-time measurement as far as the A. Lange & Söhne Triple Split. Since its launch in 2018, this watch has occupied a unique position in modern watchmaking as the only split…
It has been a little while since Glashütte-based A. Lange & Söhne released a new version of its popular and well-composed 1815 Up/Down model. For 2026, A. Lange & Söhne debuts two new gold-cased limited-edition versions of the 1815 Up/Down with solid 925 silver faces and contr…