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Set in a distant apocalyptic future, Studio Ghibli’s anime fantasy film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was released back in 1984, and as such is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. It tells the story of Nausicaä, the Princess of the Valley of the Wind, who becomes entangled in a fight with Tolmekia, […]

TAG's new range of glasses and sunglasses are just as technical as their high-end watches. The post The most unexpected release from LVMH Watch Week: TAG Heuer eyewear appeared first on Time+Tide Watches. The post The most unexpected release from LVMH Watch Week: TAG Heuer eyewear appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.

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The independent watchmaker's detent escapement wins the inaugural award.

  In a thrilling announcement today, Swiss watch brand Tudor  rejoins the motor sports world by partnering with the newly formed Visa Cash App RB Formula One Team. Having left an indelible mark on motorsport since the late ’60s, Tudor’s motorsport saga has been one of victories and alliances with winning teams, stretching from the… The post Tudor Joins Forces With New Visa Cash App RB F1 Team appeared first on ATimelyPerspective.

Introduced last year as a project, the Louis Vuitton Watch Prize for Independent Creatives has to be seen as one of the most interesting recent initiatives in the field of independent and high-end watchmaking. Even though backed up by the world’s largest luxury conglomerates, the LV Watch Prize aims to become a biennial prize that […]

Make no mistake, I’m grateful to be able to write about watches. Doing so opens a lot of doors and brings about some great opportunities. Many fantastic new watches are delivered to my door, and often weeks will pass without needing to pick something to wear from my own watch box. However, there are times […] The post Hands-On: the Bell & Ross BR-X5 Green Lum & BR 03 Cyber Ceramic appeared first on Worn & Wound.

The Glasgow watchmaker's founder talks waitlists, moonphases, and being known as a watchmaker, not an enameler.

Orion Watches has a way of making one see a simple design in new light. Take, for instance, the isometric patterned dial on their Tesseract model. Or perhaps the tonal verdency of their Calamity diver is more your speed? Throughout the Orion catalog, one gets the sense that founder Nick Harris understands that a good […] The post Orion Returns with the Sylph, Based on their Popular Hellcat Platform appeared first on Worn & Wound.

With its Captain Cook, Rado, a brand part of the Swatch Group, is merging two important sides of its history. First, this watch collection revived one of the brand’s greatest watches of the past, a 1960s dive watch with a rather peculiar yet attractive design. Second, it is used as a vessel to showcase the […]

The newly-named F1 team will fly the Tudor shield for the 2024 World Championship season.

Staff Sgt. Highrock, Jimmie to the guys, was chilled to the bone and slightly delirious with sleep deprivation but never felt more fulfilled. It was also hard to complain since the rebels were doing the same with less and had been at it for years. The ODA had had to break up into 4 cells […] The post BLAKJAK: Tornek-Rayville Type 7B Case Study & Technical Specifications appeared first on Worn & Wound.

You’re probably familiar with astronaut Ed White, who performed NASA’s first spacewalk in 1965 as part of the Gemini IV mission. In the pictures of that spacewalk, you can see him wearing two watches. Unfortunately, Ed White died in a fatal accident with Apollo 1. His name will live forever, though, as the first NASA […] Visit Why Ed White Wore Two Speedmasters During His Spacewalk to read the full article.

Many watches are created for the most demanding circumstances, yet they hardly find themselves in a situation where their qualities are actually utilized. For Montblanc, this was one reason to take the 1858 Geosphere 0 Oxygen through its paces ...

DEPLOYANT - The watch magazine for collectors, by collectors Reincarnation of the classic Piaget Polo Ref. 7761 C701 from 1979 as the new Polo 79 Ref. GOA49150. We got our hands on the pre-release sample earlier this year, and here is our review of the novelty. New and Reviewed: Piaget Polo 79 The Piaget Polo 79 has a retail price of SGD 106,000 inclusive [...] The post New and Reviewed: Piaget Polo 79 appeared first on DEPLOYANT.

The 2024 Formula 1 season hasn’t started yet. Teams are yet to present their new cars and liveries. And yet, the season seems to already be on a rapid pace. Following the announcement last week of a global partnership between H. Moser & Cie. and Alpine Motorsport, which includes the BWT Alpine F1 Team, it […]

This elegant, restrained yet extremely sumptuous timepiece gives the tourbillion the respect it deserves. The post The Platonic ideal of a tourbillon watch: the Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle Tourbillon in platinum appeared first on Time+Tide Watches. The post The Platonic ideal of a tourbillon watch: the Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle Tourbillon in platinum appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.

If you’re trying to find a theme in my five-watch collection, you can stop right now. The only thing that the five watches I selected have in common is that they frequent my wrist. Maybe you expected a more carefully curated selection in this installment of Fratello Editors Share Their Five-Watch Collections. Instead, you get […] Visit Fratello Editors Share Their Five-Watch Collections: Lex’s Picks From Grand Seiko, Omega, Chronoswiss, King Seiko, And Oris to read the full article.

In our exploratory trip around the world to uncover some of the most interesting independent watchmaking stories, we make a stop in Denmark this time around. The work of Rune Bakkendorff, a young and upcoming watchmaker from Denmark has recently been brought to our attention through our friends of The Limited Edition. Curious to learn […]