Carmelo Anthony Watch of the Day: Cartier Tortue

Like many luxury watches this year, the Cartier Tortue has been slimmed down. The new extra-flat version has been reduced in thickness, and the domed case has been replaced by a flatter, more elongated version. The Tortue, originally launched in 1912, has a case design inspired by the outline of a tortoise. It is one […]

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Jon Hamm and Bovet Raise $500,000 at Artists for Peace and Justice Event

The actor joined Bovet at the Hollywood Domino event in Los Angeles, where they raised half a million dollars for the foundation...

Carmelo Anthony Haute Time Watch of the Day: Montblanc Meisterstück Heritage Pulsograph

Montblanc has created an entire watch collection as a tribute to one of the world’s most iconic writing instruments, the Montblanc Meisterstück. The movement, manual-wound caliber MB M13.21 is a monopusher chronograph, which can be seen through the back of the 18k rose gold case. It was inspired by the prestigious Caliber 13.20 of its […]

Haute Living Watch of the Week: Glashütte Original PanoMaticInverse

The beauty of the mechanical movement is front and center in the PanoMaticInverse. Components of the automatic Caliber 91-02 reversed, with the aim of highlighting the manufacture’s signature fine adjustment system – a duplex swan-neck mechanism – by making it visible on the dial side. Beneath it beats the pulsating heart of the watch, the […]

Hublot and Depeche Mode Raise $1.4 Million for Charity: Water

As the band's Delta Machine Tour wrapped up in Russia, Hublot joined Depeche Mode for a rock-inspired gala dinner and auction...

Ralph Lauren SIHH 2014

Ralph Lauren’s Sporting, Stirrup and Slim Classique collections are quickly becoming iconic, gaining a foothold for this power house brand’s watch division, a partnership with the Richemont Group. At the SIHH this year, it introduced several gentlemanly sports watches in its showcase Sporting Collection, beginning with the Black Safari Flying Tourbillon. It contains the Caliber […]

Carmelo Anthony’s Haute Time Watch of the Day: Richard Mille RM 63-01 Dizzy Hands

The Dizzy Hands is Richard Mille’s take on the notion of the suspension of time. When the pusher in the center of the crown is pressed once, the sapphire glass dial on which the numerals are printed begins to rotate counterclockwise, as the hour hand moves clockwise, both at different speeds. This serves to suspend […]

Carmelo Anthony’s Haute Time Watch of the Day: Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Chronograph Ceramic

This watch is not only a chronograph but a dual timer. The second time zone is read by means of a filigree-style second hour hand on the central dial. This is supplement by a day/night indicator appearing through a window just below the Jaeger-LeCoultre signature on the dial. The chronograph hour and minute counters are […]

Carmelo Anthony’s Watch of the Day: Peter Speake-Marin Spirit Seafire

Watchmaker Peter Speake-Marin is presenting his first chronograph at Baselworld this month, the Spirit Seafire. The dial is distinguished not only by the chronograph counters but by a seconds counter at 9 o’clock in the form of the Speake-Marin “topping tool” logo. (A topping tool is a hand operated rotating wheel that cuts out the […]

Haute Living Watch of the Week: A. Lange & Söhne Lange Zeitwerk Striking Time

The pink gold version of this watch was introduced recently, after being launched in a limited edition platinum series. It is the brand’s first chiming wristwatch and uniquely shows the hammers and gong on the dial side, on each side of the subsidiary seconds dial. Every 15 minutes, the mechanism triggers the striking of one […]

Jaeger-LeCoultre SIHH 2014

Jaeger-LeCoultre is known for its innovative complications and its ultra-thin watches, and the manufacture’s introductions at the SIHH 2014 were even more impressive than usual. This year’s masterpiece is both innovative and ultra-thin. The Hybris Mechanica 11 Minute Repeater is the eleventh creation in the haute horology Hybris Mechanica collection and, at 7.9mm thick, represents […]

Carmelo Anthony’s Haute Time Watch of the Day: Panerai Luminor 1950 Chrono Monopulsante Left-Handed 8 Days

Panerai’s heritage as a pioneer of left-handed chronographs goes back to the days when the company made watches for the commandos of the Royal Italian Navy in the 1930s and ’40s. The commandos preferred to wear their watches on the right wrist, because they wore their compasses and depth gauges on their left, so the […]

VIDEO: HYT Watches Unveils New Novelties for Basel 2014

The manufacture has given us a sneak peek at the models they will unveil for Basel 2014, including two new H1 models and three new H2 models...

Carmelo Anthony’s Haute Time Watch of the Day: Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Resonance 3

The Toric Resonance 3 is a minute repeater with a prominent utilitarian secondary function: a large date window. In fact, this is the largest instantaneous date display in the watch world, measuring only 5.9mm wide – and 2.9mm for each numeral. It is not the first time Parmigiani Fleurier has combined a large date with […]

Haute Time Ladies’ Watch of the Day: Roger Dubuis Velvet High Jewelry

Roger Dubuis gets everything right with the clean, well-matched emeralds, rubies or sapphires in its Velvet Haute Joaillerie collection. Colored gemstones can often look like a confusing kaleidescope on a watch dial. A wristwatch is a small canvas, so gemstones should be used discreetly, in no more than two colors, and should be chosen from nothing […]

Ulysse Nardin Unveils Perpetual Manufacture for Basel 2014

This limited edition new perpetual calendar timepiece allows the date to be adjusted both forward and backward...

Piaget at SIHH 2014

Of Piaget’s 35 manufacture calibers, 25 of them are ultra-thin, according to Piaget CEO Philippe Leopold-Metzger, who presented some of the brand’s 2014 models at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in January. The brand now holds 14 world records for thin calibers. It comes as no surprise, then, that Piaget introduced the world’s […]