An Exceptional Bakelite 1953 Blancpain Fifty Fathoms
I’ve been waiting patiently on the touchline for the right Fifty Fathoms to surface in the market. This is a site built to…
A Charming Enicar Jet Graph Mark 3
Enicar, ever the forward-thinking watchmaker, saw the inherent redundancy in the word chronograph that others had missed. There is not a watch with…
1 of 500: Rose Gold Jaeger Lecoultre Reverso Septantième
I am beginning to think I’m going to have to create a neo-vintage cateogory here. Some of my very-favourite pieces come from the…
1st Gen Universal Genève Polerouter Compressor Sub
Artifacts of #lockdownlife have proven completely unpredictable for me. I’m now convinced that I can speak French when drunk. I’ve been practicing a…
Tiffany-Signed 6241 Steel Rolex Daytona
Serpico, Beyer, Gubelin, Bucherer, Cartier, and above all Tiffany: these are the words that, when combined with a manufacture signature, collectors lose their…
Heuer Autavia 2446 ‘Jochen Rindt’ Mark 3
In 2016, TAG announced a tournament to pit classic Heuer Autavia designs against each other in an online voting tournament. The winner, by…
One Characterful Pilot: Breitling 812 GMT Chronograph
If I’m aggressively, incriminatingly honest, the Navitimer tends to bore me slightly. Even the AOPA dials. I much prefer something like a Co-Pilot,…
Omega 166.072 Seamaster Memomatic
If you’ve been here a little while, you’ll know I have a fascination with the alarm complication. You may also know I’m a…
Vacheron Constantin 47245 Patrimony Retrograde ‘247’ LE
In my view, a 247th anniversary celebration should not be the rager. 250th deserves the splash. And while Vacheron Constantin’s 2005 Esprit des…
Double-Burgundy, Wabi-Sabi Tropical Rolex 6536
The classic, iconic small-crown Submariner is ageing remarkably well. Every single Black Bay 58 you see plastered across your Instagram feed owes its…
Audemars Piguet Star Wheel 25720BA
If Urwerk took a more classical approach to watchmaking, I think the result would be something like this marvelous AP Star Wheel. The…
