It’s being hailed as one of the most complicated watches ever made by the International Watch Company of Schaffhausen. Best know for its high precision instrument watches and pilot’s watches, IWC has taken the connection with the world of the sky and stars hinted at by the navigation instrument inspired watches in its collection and brought it to an unprecedented new level

It’s often said that painting was never the same after Picasso; the same could be said of the art of watchmaking, and the watch known as the Ulysse Nardin Freak.

If you love a comeback story (and who doesn’t) Roger Dubuis is a watchmaking house that’s probably already on your radar.

One of the biggest news items for watch fans last year was about something small: the Corum Golden Bridge turned 30. Introduced in 1980, the Corum Golden Bridge was then and is now a design that plays against conventional expectations of a watch.

For someone who’s learning to love fine watches for the first time, it often comes as a surprise to find out that Seiko –a company many associate only with democratically priced quartz watches –is, in connoisseur’s circles, admired for its luxury mechanical watches as well.

If you’re a hardcore watch lover, the most exciting time of the year is its beginning –not because the dew of spring is fresh on a world reborn, but because it’s when the two watchapaloozas known as the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie, and BaselWorld, take place in Geneva and Basel –bringing us all the latest and greatest timepieces as watchmakers vie for the attention and dollars of their clients.

If you haven’t yet heard of Montres DeWitt, allow us to introduce you to a small company that makes some of the most beautifully different and intriguingly ingenious watches in the world. This boutique haute horlogerie Geneva based firm was founded in 2002 by Jérôme DeWitt, who comes by his fascination with watchmaking honestly –the son of a White Russian nobleman who fled Russian in 1919, he’s descended on his mother’s side from Jérôme Bonaparte, Napoléon Bonaparte’s youngest brother, who amassed a distinguished collection of watches a part of which is still owned by his descendant.

Though the trend towards hefty watches in recent years seemed unstoppable, the classic, elegant thin dress watch is making a long-overdue comeback

The Patravi EvoTec Calendar has a quiet beauty that’s easy to miss at first, and it wants to be loved for its brain as well as its body –but then, that’s what you want in a long term relationship, right?