Exploring Three Watches To Show Off Your Dark Side!

We all have a dark side. For some it’s present in the extreme, unapologetically upfront and true. Whilst for others, it’s more subtle, maybe even sublime, and yet rarely sees the light of day. Whatever your shade, you’ll be sure to find a bold timepiece to suit.

By Adrienne Faurote

Haute Complication: Blancpain Tourbillon Carrousel

While watches with two (or more) regulating organs are not a rarity anymore, the Blancpain Tourbillon Carrousel is different, as it combined two different approaches to the regulating organ in one single watch.

The Challenging Art Of Ultra-Slim Watches

They deserve to be a complication in their own right: ultra-slim watches. Although many of these movements only power two or three hands, making them is pretty much like putting together a watch movement while walking the high wire. It is a constant balancing act, in which it is important to maintain the integrity of the movement while you make it as slim as possible.

Haute Complication: Girard-Perregaux Minute Repeater Tourbillon With Bridges

Some watches put everything on the table, and when you are a minute repeater tourbillon that is quite a feat! Girard-Perregaux did just that and added their iconic bridges to it, for good measure.

Visiting Ferrari With Hublot

When two brands, icons in their respective fields, come together extraordinary things can happen. This is most certainly the case with Hublot's collaboration with Ferrari, who crowned their partnership recently with the Techframe Ferrari Chronograph, celebrating 70 years of the Prancing Horse!

The Magic of Mother of Pearl

No dial glistens quite like a mother of pearl. But it takes more than a beautiful dial to make a tempting watch, as these three brands understand all too well!

Haute Time Sits Down With Stephen Forsey, Co-Founder Of Greubel Forsey

Say the name Greubel Forsey and many watch connoisseurs will get a twinkle in their eyes! We sat down with co-founder Stephen Forsey, asking about his passion, and how he devotes his own time!

Four Watches That Are Hip To Be Square!

Yes, it is hip to be square! In a market where round is still the standard, square watches stand out, yet these are four of the watches that set the pace!

Hands-on With The Ralph Lauren RL Automotive Double Tourbillon

Inspired by his 1938 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Coupe, Ralph Lauren is launching the latest addition to his RL Automotive Collection: a Double Tourbillon

Ulysse Nardin Marine Grand Deck: Unnecessary Grandeur

By creating unnecessary grandeur, Ulysse Nardin shows what Haute Horlogerie is all about with the Marine Grand Deck, combining a visual spectacle with a practical personality.

Celebrating The Invention Of The Tourbillon With Breguet

Today, exactly 216 years go, Abraham-Louis Breguet was awarded the patent of the tourbillon. Little did he know that he had just invented one of the most prestigious complications in watchmaking for centuries to come, which was to him just a way to minimize the influence of gravity on the escapement of his watches.

Top 10 Watches From The SIHH

Is there a slowdown in the watch industry? You wouldn't think so when you saw the new watches that the brands introduced during the SIHH. From complicated skeleton watches to understated dress watches, it was all there and everything in between. We picked out 10 favorites.

Haute Time’s Five Favorite Ladies Watches From Baselworld

The ladies watches at Baselworld ranged from functional, elegant every day watches to elaborate Haute Joaillerie creations and everything in between. Selecting a top five among them is quite a challenge, but one we always like to tackle.

Haute Complication: Richard Mille RM 38-01 Bubba Watson

Richard Mille is known to now only have celebrity ambassadors, but also work intensely with them together to create watches with unique complications, focussing on their particular sport. This is also the case with the watches that Mille created for golf pro Bubba Watson.

Haute Time’s Favorite Baselworld Watches: Part II

Continuing where we left off in Part I, these are the last of our ten favorite watches from this year's Baselworld watch fair!

A. Lange & Söhne “Pour le Mérite”: A Legacy of Excellence

Being the nec plus ultra of the brand, the "Pour le Mérite" by A. Lange & Söhne are not created to make sense, but make excellence!

The Evolution Of Complicated Diving Watches

Water resistance and reliability are what it is all about with a diving watch. However, advances in technology make it now possible to achieve a water resistance that was unimaginable half a century ago, making it now possible to create diving watches the world has never seen before.