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Affordable Luxury: Tsovet Electric Blue It’s a young watch brand and already Tsovet is making a name for themselves. Though equipped with a stock ETA 2892-2A automatic calibre, this electrifying (pun intended) beauties command a price of $2,400- Expensive for a timepiece equipped with a standard movement? Yes. But when this puppy weighs in at […]
May 29, 2011
The new Piaget Emperador Coussin Tourbillon Automatic Ultra-Thin is entirely in line with the brand’s DNA and sets a new record for the world’s thinnest self-winding tourbillon watch measuring a mere 10.4 mm. But never mind the record, I’m just amazed by how much detail goes into both the watch face and partial skeleton dial […]
May 10, 2011
I was digging through my old files when I came upon a Cartier Press Release circa 2009 about the Cartier Santos 100 Carbon automatic and chronograph editions. This was way back before the stealth look was even in vogue. Available in steel polished bezel on steel ADLC matt black coating or in high contrast pink […]
May 5, 2011
Don’t ever say that I only flog expensive, bank breaking gear; Here’s some Luxe for Less even though I normally eschew quartz watches (not because I’m a snob but because I’ve fallen in love with the sweeping seconds of an automatic). That said, this is one quartz perpetual calendar you should pay attention to. TX, […]
May 4, 2011
When I first wrote about Christophe Claret, it was about the ground breaking DualTow. Now, three namesake watches later, the lust continues with his latest timepiece. The luxuriously priced (six figures) 21 Blackjack Watch. While this Christophe Claret may strike loyal readers as a departure from my usual stance on “classic elegance”, I’ve included the […]
April 27, 2011
Almost minimalist (get rid of the arrows on the bezel please), the Tissot T-Navigator Automatic in stainless steel with black PVD bezel comes equipped with a pretty standard 25 jewel ETA 2836-2. At USD895, it’s pretty much the poor man’s version of a timepiece that’s been very close to my heart – the Perrelet Turbine. […]
April 21, 2011
A picture speaks a thousand words. This Triwa Nevil in Havana Orange is worth more than a thousand dollars but costs much less- Prices start from $200. From the outgrowth of “toy watch” companies like ICE and ToyWatch, I’ve yet to see any of them tackle mass luxury timepieces with such fine aplomb like Triwa. […]
March 15, 2011
The Watch for Players With Roger Dubuis under the Richemont flag, this Swiss horlogerie maison is coming out of the gates strong under the keen eye of CEO Georges Kern. Kern oversees IWC and and Baume & Mercier and has seen great success in revitalising watches from the Schaffhausen and judging from what I’ve seen […]
March 5, 2011
Attraction. It’s one of those immutable laws of nature. You don’t know why it happens or why it hits you but when it happens, you know you’re in love, balls to bones. So when my eyes first cast its gaze across this Seagull 1963 chronograph, against all odds, at least when it comes to products […]
February 25, 2011
Coincidentally, someone asked me what “getting railroaded” meant. Let me put it this way, train rails are single tracks. When one gets railroaded, it means you had no other choice or path to take (usually to a negative conclusion). Sometimes getting railroaded isn’t a bad thing; especially when it comes to matters of classic elegance: […]
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