Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Diver Chronograph - 1:1 Mirror Watch 3126 Movement

BEST FROM: & Friends April 25 2014

For the end of April, we check out more watches that were debuted at Baselworld 2014, including Tissot s new solar-powered T-Touch, Patek Philippe s new steel Annual Calendar Chronograph and more. We also review Omega s ground-breaking Seamaster Aqua Terra 15,000 Gauss watch and talk about the new watch certification, Observatoire Chronometrique+. Finally, we round off by chatting with Seiko CEO Shinji Hattori, and find out how Rolex is staying relevant in this high-tech digital age.1. Girard-Perregaux Constant Escapement L.M. Watch In Pink Gold Hands-OnLast year, Girard-Perre

Jacob & Co. Ghost Watch

For me the most interesting watch I saw from Jacob & Co. this year was this Ghost G5 timepiece. The Ghost is a brand new collection for 2011 designed by Jacques Fournier (Horology Design Ltd.) in cooperation with Yvan Arpa who is now a figure at Jacob & Co. The Ghost will comes in a few forms and is called the G5 and GT5 as well (Ghost 5 time zones). The Ghost has a new five-sided case that is strange at first but ends up looking rather nice on the wrist. I like this watch a lot more than I might expect if you just described it to me on paper.This 47mm wide case shows up on tw

The Black Belt Watch Only For People With Black Belts

This watch comes with a great back story. A tale of a man they called crazy. A tale of a man, who probably is crazy, but we can all love him for that. It all started with Romain Jerome and their previous 'lord & ruler,' Yvan Arpa. The watch community generally has the perception that Yvan Arpa is a bit of an... eccentric. One who creates ideas that are pretty wild. Half the time the ideas work, the other times, they most surely don't. One example of a failed idea was an all rusted watch (on the outside) enclosed in a hermetically sealed glass case. The idea was that once the glass

Jorg Schauer Day Date GL Watch Available: Finest Example Of German Simplicity And Function With Ample Character

I love when I see watch like this up for sale. Why? Because it happens so rarely. Jorg Schauer would certainly be described as an innovative and independent watch maker with a limited production of watches, but at the same time, when people buy them, they rarely show up again on the market.The Schauer Day Date GL watch is a fine example of German creativity which does not cause functional confusion. What I mean is that while the watch undoubtedly presents a degree of creativity in its design, there is nothing so revolutionary about it that you stop to figure out what is going on (you s