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So goes the joke. Actually, the car – a modern-day Shelby Cobra 289 – goes for around $300,000. Only fifteen were made. And as part of the package deal, fifteen unique matching Baume & Mercier Capeland Shelby Cobra chronographs were...
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The thumb, scientists say, has slightly faster reflexes than the fingers. Thus, the Graham Chronofighter tailored the chrono actuator for your thumb. To get you just that much more precise with your timing. This year is the fifteenth anniversary of...
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So I’m wandering around the JCK trade show (Jewelers Circular Keystone – no, don’t ask where the name came from) in the Mandalay Bay convention center at the south end of the Vegas strip. The place is huge – H-U-U-U-G-E...
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I’ve been absent for a few days and there’s a reason for it. In a word, Vegas. Yeah Baby! Everybody in the watch world looks forward to SIHH and Basel, right? Well, yeah, but that’s not all. There’s the American...
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In Rolex parlance, any Cosmograph Daytona that has a “panda” (black sub-dials against a light background) or “reverse panda” (light sub-dials against black) dial and was manufactured in the 1960s and 1970s is called a “Paul Newman.” This is because...
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Mikael BOURGEOIS Watches is an eponymous brand which launched in France in 2012. Founder Mikael Bourgeois has been an independent watch designer for nearly two decades, working for several brands. With that experience, he decided it was time to strike...
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Seems like every few weeks I come across another tuning house that’s working on current Rolex models, remanufacturing them into homages to the Rolexes of an earlier age. Just today I discovered Blaken, a German company doing all sorts of...
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