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182 articles found for "tourbillon"
  1. Review: Richard Mille RM033

    Review: Richard Mille RM033

    There’s no mistaking a Richard Mille. Big, brash and expensive—putting it mildly—to call a Richard Mille watch a statement piece is like saying Alpha Centauri is quite far away. This RM033 is...
    Posted on 18/11/2019
  2. Review: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Extra Thin

    Review: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Extra Thin

    One of the industry’s most famous—or infamous, depending on how you feel about it—designs, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak set new standards for luxury watchmaking in the face of complete annihilation...
    Posted on 27/09/2019
  3. Feature: The Tourbillon

    Feature: The Tourbillon

    The tourbillon is perhaps the most impressive complication in watchmaking. It’s also not really a complication, nor is it, in a wristwatch, particularly useful. So, what is it, how does it work...
    Posted on 18/09/2019
  4. Feature: How On Earth Does A Minute Repeater Work?

    Feature: How On Earth Does A Minute Repeater Work?

    If you’re looking for a complicated watch to beat all other complications, perhaps you’d consider a tourbillon. Bold, dramatic and more fiddly than inserting an HDMI lead without looking, it’s...
    Posted on 28/08/2019
  5. Feature: Baltic Watches

    Feature: Baltic Watches

    There are pros and cons of owning a vintage watch. The pros, you get a piece in period style and—perhaps just as important if not more—proportions, something that modern watchmaking just seems...
    Posted on 09/08/2019
  6. Review: Bulgari Octo Finissimo Automatique

    Review: Bulgari Octo Finissimo Automatique

    They say that something valuable is worth its weight in gold, and in watchmaking there’s a lot to be said about having some heft. So, given that—and despite having a fully integrated bracelet...
    Posted on 05/07/2019
  7. Review: £250 vs £250,000 Watch

    Review: £250 vs £250,000 Watch

    What is a watch? It’s a timekeeping device, primarily. Perhaps this statement is obvious to you, perhaps you think it’s something that doesn’t need clarifying—but yet when a watch can cost £250...
    Posted on 03/07/2019
  8. Feature: The Dream Watch Collection: Part 2

    Feature: The Dream Watch Collection: Part 2

    It’s time for another trip into the world of our imaginations as we wonder what it’s like to buy whatever watch we want. And why not make it three while we’re at? For this dream watch collection...
    Posted on 23/05/2019
  9. Feature: 3 Chronographs That Will Shock You

    Feature: 3 Chronographs That Will Shock You

    There’s not a whole lot that watchmaking has to throw at us that we would be surprised by these days. Tudor’s P01, for example, that was close—but it really was only a matter of time before that...
    Posted on 15/05/2019
  10. Feature: 3 Complicated Audemars Piguet Royal Oaks

    Feature: 3 Complicated Audemars Piguet Royal Oaks

    It’s the watch that saved Audemars Piguet, that came to define it. The eight, hard angles framing the dial and bracelet blending seamlessly into the case can be recognised from across the street—and...
    Posted on 16/01/2019
  11. Review: Omega De Ville Tourbillon

    Review: Omega De Ville Tourbillon

    Stop the average person on the street and ask them if Rolex is better than Omega, and there’s a high chance they’ll agree. Rolex is a bigger brand, sells more watches, has a stronger following—yet...
    Posted on 11/01/2019
  12. Review: TAG Heuer Carrera Tourbillon

    Review: TAG Heuer Carrera Tourbillon

    You probably know TAG Heuer best as the entry-level Swiss luxury watchmaker famous for its big, square Monaco, but I expect you never thought you’d see the day when the following sentence was...
    Posted on 29/11/2018