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BEST FROM: aBlogtoWatch & Friends October 31, 2017
Watches that represent great value feature highly on this month’s most read articles. Grand Seiko is known to feature excellent finishing for the money and there was a lot of buzz surrounding the newly announced Hi-Beat 36000 Limited Edition SBGJ227, which is an updated version of the highly sought after but sold out SBGJ005. Still…
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Roger Dubuis Excalibur Spider Italdesign Edition Watch
The Geneva Motor Show will take place just before Baselworld 2017, and one of the most eagerly anticipated cars at the show will be Italdesign’s new hypercar. Founded by Giorgetto Giugiaro, Italdesign is a design and engineering company with a long history, and this will be their first foray into making a proper car. To…
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Roger Dubuis Excalibur 42 Automatic Skeleton Watch Review
Until relatively recently, if you wanted one of Roger Dubuis’ cool skeletonized Excalibur watches, you were going to spend over a $100,000 – easily. Then, last year in 2015, Roger Dubuis Velvet Watch released the brand-new Roger Dubuis Excalibur 42 Automatic Skeleton watch collection that removed the tourbillon and added a micro-rotor based automatic movement.…
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Roger Dubuis Excalibur Automatic Skeleton Carbon Watch
For SIHH 2016, Roger Dubuis will unveil a new carbon-cased version of the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Automatic 42 Skeleton watch (hands-on here) that was originally introduced at SIHH 2015. One year later, we see a new carbon-cased version which adds an interesting flavor to the Roger Dubuis brand that we haven’t seen yet. I’ll remind…
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Everything You Need To Know About How Geneva Seal-Quality Movements Are Made By Roger Dubuis
In recent years, as fierce competition between high-end brands and luxury groups has further intensified, watch certifications have stepped up as a favored weapon of choice, functioning as yet another quality-differentiating factor, if you like. The problem, though, is that these certifications – including important factors such as their exact criteria and required processes, as well as what…
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Follow aBlogtoWatch At The SIHH 2016 Watch Show January 18-22 With #SIHHABTW
Beginning this upcoming Monday, January 18th, and running through Friday, January 22nd, is the always anticipated, annual Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) watch exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland. The exhibition will feature showings from some of the largest watch brands as well as a stable of independent brands who are newly invited for 2016.…
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Roger Dubuis Excalibur Knights Of The Round Table II Watch
A watch designer’s job is to create a relationship between the wearer and their watch. The new Roger Dubuis Excalibur Knights of the Round Table II watch does this is a clever way. By decorating the dial with a culturally significant diorama, the wearer is not only comfortable with an image they have seen many times…
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Watches & Wonders 2015 Recap & Setting The Tone For The Luxury Timepiece Industry In Asia
Georges Kern, CEO of Schaffhausen, Switzerland-based IWC watches, stands up from our table to deliver a welcome speech for a room of guests invited to dinner after the first day of Watches & Wonders 2015 here in Hong Kong. Known for quick, sharp remarks, and a realistic vision of his company and the luxury watch…
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Roger Dubuis Excalibur Spider Pocket Watch Time Instrument
It is very unusual to look at a piece of such undeniable quality as the Roger Dubuis Watches Uk Excalibur Spider Pocket Time Instrument and find a number of more critical points sooner than anything else – but I guess this example is one that I will remember as proof that first impressions can be misleading……
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Roger Dubuis Hommage Millesime Unique Pocket Watch
The question is, does doing so make 1 bit of (negative) gap for Roger Dubuis? I mean, they put twelve knights and four equilibrium wheels on the dials of the watches, so they can do whatever they want.The Geneva Motor Show will occur just before Baselworld 2017, and one of the most eagerly anticipated cars…