With all the excitement surrounding The Omega brand lately, boutique openings around the world, their brand ambassadors and of course the recent worldwide release of James Bond Skyfall, it was wonderful to see yet another unique piece from the Omega brand.

With all the excitement surrounding The Omega brand lately, boutique openings around the world, their brand ambassadors and of course the recent worldwide release of James Bond Skyfall, it was wonderful to see yet another unique piece from the Omega brand. During a recent visit to the Omega Boutique in New York City, I had […]

Today’s Haute Time Watch of the Day pick by Carmelo Anthony is the Patrimony Traditionelle Openworked perpetual calendar by Vacheron Constantin. This version of the Patrimony Traditionelle boasts a beautiful open-worked, automatic, 1120 QP SQ movement with a 40 hour power reserve. The case is 39mm and is shown here in 18k 5N rose gold. […]

The RM 052 Diamond Skull Tourbillon by Richard Mille, has been selected by Carmelo Anthony as The Haute Time Watch of the Day. This incredible design integrates the skull into the watch movement, creating a fantastic design element and an amazing movement. This piece is extremely limited, with only 21 pieces available in total, in […]

This amazing timepiece not only features a truly unique movement, but also a beautiful platinum and blued-steel sphere visible on the dial and rotates on its own axis to show the moonphase. This spectacular watch is also the Winner of the 11th Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix, De Bethune's DB28 was awarded the prize for Watch of the Year.

Selected by Carmelo Anthony, the Roger Dubuis La Monegasque Tourbillon Volant is Today's Haute Time Watch of the Day. The La Monegasque collection, which was inspired by Monte Carlo, has a contemporary look while testing the laws of gravity in this impressive flying tourbillon.

This amazing piece by Patek Philippe features a mechanical self-winding Caliber R 27 Q movement. With minute repeater and perpetual calendar the Rose Gold - Men Grand Complications is music to the ears, with two "cathedral" gongs as the chime. Other features include; day, date, month, leap year by hands, moon phases and a.m./p.m indications.

The Harry Winston Tourbillon is today's Haute Time Watch of the day choice by Carmelo Anthony. This unique piece from the Harry Winston Midnight Collection was dedicated to raising awareness and supporting research of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which effects 250,00 children worldwide.

The H1 Titanium by HYT is Carmelo Anthony's pick for Haute Time Watch of the Day. HYT merges fine watch making, engineering and fluid mechanics to create a watch that uses a fluorescent liquid to tell time in this amazing timepiece.

The world time watch is one of the most useful, but also one of the most potentially troubling complications in watchmaking. Its usefulness is self-evident: a watch that can allow a world traveler to easily see the correct time anywhere in the world, they are at the same time slaves to human caprice. The reason […]

Anyone who’s seen the movie Hugo –that love letter both to the history of the cinema, and to the fascination of complicated mechanics –knows what an automaton is. Pierre Jaquet-Droz, the watchmaker whose name is now that of the creator of some of the world’s most beautiful horological works of fine art, was famous not […]

2013 is the Year of the Snake in the Chinese Zodiac, in which –unlike Western astrology, where the symbolic animal changes every month –an animal reigns for an entire year. The Snake personality is calm and unruffled on the surface, but just as with an actual snake, someone born under this sign can strike without […]

One of the nice things about A. Lange & Söhne is how little noise they make about how much goes into their watches. Every year a few thousand timepieces –a bare handful, by the modern standards of mass luxury behemoths, who leverage their name recognition into the sale of millions of units of God knows […]

Even today, when its history should be known by anyone with pretensions to serious interest in watchmaking, Panerai is sometimes misperceived as a maker of fashionably large watches –a follower, in short, rather than a leader. Nothing could be further from the truth. Panerai began life as an instrument maker and created some of the […]

The whole notion of a skeleton watch in a collection called “Midnight” is a delightful, Halloween-ish conceit, and the watch is just as delightful –well, one is tempted to say, “in the flesh,” but of course, what a skeletonized watch is, is exactly the opposite. Skeletonizing, or openworking, is the art of taking a watch […]

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret is probably not a name you recognize, but Le Corbusier probably is; in fact, the latter is the nom de plume of the former (a variation on the name of his maternal grandfather, which he adopted in 1920 in the avant-garde spirit of assertion of one’s own identity against tradition). Beginning as a painter, Jeanneret moved […]