As Baume & Mercier’s signature semi-casual dress watch, the classically resourceful Clifton is able to play host to a pretty wide variety of complications – everything from simple GMT and moonphase displays, to perpetual calendars and this wild minute-repeating pocket watch. So it should come as little surprise that for 2017, just as in years’ […]
Did you know that famed car designer Carroll Shelby had a serious heart condition that made him heavily dependent on nitroglycerin pills – and/or a reliable source of adrenalin to keep his heart beating? And that to keep himself off the medication for as long as possible, he started to take part in motor racing, while […]
The final result? Well, in theory, a more even, inherently secure chronometric performance and greater long-term precision. Granted, we’ll have to withhold judgement until we’ve examined one in the actual world. But for now, it’s interesting to see more and more brands go from Nivarox (and by extension, the Swatch Group), rather choosing to create […]
Are we pumped for SIHH 2018 yet? Just like the “holiday shopping season” and beginning around the same time, it seems like the new-product announcements get earlier every year. With still more than a month to go, the 2018 models that we will get to see in Geneva in January have already started coming in. […]
Racing could ensue, the thunder of pistons bashing away as the riders pinned back their throttles in the beginning line, hammering their brakes a 1/4 mile afterwards, then ripping through the gears again back to where they had started from. A combination of drag racing and barrel racing; every rider would begin in neutral using […]