Vacheron Constantin Overseas Dual Time Blue Dial Swiss Watch

Jaeger-LeCoultre Grande Reverso Ultra-Thin 1931 Chocolate Watch Review

Jaeger-LeCoultre has been knocking it out of the park for the last few years with their vintage-inspired tribute collection of Reversos.? Styled after their earliest models from the 1930s, JLC breathed new life into the Reverso line by going back to their roots, using non-complicated manual winding movements, simple dials, and an ultra-thin case design.? The first in the collection, a black dial two hand Reverso known simply as the Tribute To 1931, was revealed at SIHH in 2011, and was subsequently followed up in 2012 with a red-dialed version known as the Rouge, and in 2013 with the B

What It's Like To Make A Watch

Sitting on the watchmaker's bench, two things became apparent; that finger condoms (cots) choke the blood out of my fingers and looking through a loupe with just one eye gives you no depth perception when you need it most. For several days I took instruction from a master watchmaker while I and an aBlogtoWatch reader were guests of Frederique Constant in Geneva putting together our first watch movement. It was a thrilling experience, and one that few people will ever receive, even if they pay for it. Unless they go to a watch making school that is.Technical Director and watchmaker Pim

Longines Watches And The French Open

A couple of weekends ago, I had the privilege of attending the 2012 French Open (aka Roland Garros) in Paris, France. The French Open is arguably one of the top two or three professional tennis tournaments in the world (behind Wimbledon and alongside the US Open) and brings the game's top players to the heart of Paris for a yearly event which dates as far back as 1891. Compagnie des Montres Longines Francillon SA, better and more simply known as Longines Watches, have been the official timekeeper and partner of the French Open since 2007, and claims to have found a strong synergy betwe

Michael Bittel Double Diaphragm Eclipse Watch

This watch doesn't just have a dial that looks like a camera shutter, the prototype version actually used a camera shutter. Michael Bittel cannibalized a friend's vintage camera (he had permission) and took out the shutter. He ground it down and modified it, and used it to make an opening and closing dial on a watch. This isn't the first time that a shutter aperture style dial has graced my eyes, but it is one of the nicest renditions. I did mention the de Grisogono Fuso Quadrato Two Time Zone watch that applied a similar idea. Although on the Eclipse, the shutter opens up to re