Grand Seiko SLGH005 – $9100 New watch alert! Shhh! Grand Seiko’s latest nature-inspired watch was inspired by Shirakaba (birch trees). “Shira meaning ‘white’ while kaba is the combined kanji for ‘wood’ and ‘beauty’, giving white birch trees the poetic meaning of pure elegant beauty.” Well no wonder GS named it the SLGH005. Anyway, you can be sure the watch doesn’t have any birch […]

Many collectors consider Patek Philippe to be one of the most prestigious watch brands in the world. While there are other high-end watch brands that might match or even exceed the storied Swiss manufacture in some aspects of watchmaking, Patek Philippe stands apart for two main reasons. Firstly, a Patek watch almost always appreciates in […]

H. Moser & Cie Swiss Alp Watch Final Upgrade – $30,800 This $30,800 watch would annoy the hell out of me mashable.com proclaims. New watch alert! The final installment of H. Moser & Cie’s Alpine series – a mechanical middle finger to the Apple Watch – features a faux Spinning Disc Pointer mocking Cupertino’s app loading app. Back in the […]

Audemars Piguet was founded in 1875 by two Swiss watchmakers in Vallée de Joux, Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet. The company is still owned by its founding families to this day and has never ceased production, and over its 146-year history has created some of the world’s most complicated timepieces. Along with Patek […]

Breguet Reine de Naples Cœur LE – $50k I was schmoozing with a PR flack the other day; a hugely intelligent woman who confessed her love for complications. I resisted the urge to describe my complicated love life, countering instead with my love of minimalism. Wouldn’t you know it, Breguet drops a watch that combines both: […]

Besides making great watches, Oris prides itself on being involved in charities with which they can make a meaningful difference. Men’s health charity Movember is one such charity. Participants are encouraged to grow a moustache for the month of November while raising money for the cause. Starting in 2017, Oris has collaborated with the Movember Foundation to […]

Amongst enthusiasts Grand Seiko is known as perhaps the biggest value proposition in luxury watchmaking. The manufacture was almost unknown to Western markets only a decade ago, catering primarily for the Japanese domestic market and only occasionally imported overseas by the few “in the know”. Now Grand Seiko can be found in high-end watch stores […]

IWC Pilot’s Watch Timezoner Edition “Le Petit Prince” LE (Blue Dial) – $13,800 When the pandemic finally fizzles, I’m going to pop over to Nouméa. I want to find out why anyone would want to know the time on an island that’s 913.42 miles from Brisbane, which is also a long way from anywhere and doesn’t merit a […]

Citizen Pixar Lamp and Ball – $200 New watch alert! Citizen and Timex are going full Marvel, Disney and Peanuts, luring buyers with otherwise dull watches festooned with characters from well-loved comics and movies. The Citizen Pixar Lamp and Ball also features an iconic (if obscure) cartoon character: Luxo. That’s the desk lamp featured in the first animated short from then Apple-financed, now Disney owned […]

Officine Panerai was founded in Florence, Italy in 1860 by Giovanni Panerai, initially as a watchmaking school, repair workshop and point of sale for imported Swiss watches. By the early 1900s Panerai had secured contracts with the Royal Italian Navy, supplying them with watches and precision military instruments. Marie and Pierre Curie’s discovery of radium […]

Vianney Halter DEEP SPACE RESONANCE LE – $972k plus tax Play the video. Otherwise, you might conclude that spending a million bucks on a watch is a tad extravagant. Dance monkey, dance! After 25 years of development, Mr. Halter has released unto the world a triple-axis tourbillon with an acoustic coupling mechanism linking two balance wheels. quillandpad.com explains the […]

We made it! 2020 has been a crazy year for the watch world (and outside of it), filled with ups and downs and interesting developments. In this post, I’d like to share with you a recap of our year at WatchCharts, and discuss some changes we’ve seen in the and market as well. Most of […]