Watch Alert : Girard Perregaux Laureato Chronograph in Titanium
2024 marks a significant milestone for Girard-Perregaux and the Laureato, as it commemorates the 49th anniversary since the model was first introduced back in 1975....
2024 marks a significant milestone for Girard-Perregaux and the Laureato, as it commemorates the 49th anniversary since the model was first introduced back in 1975....
There’s a new kid on the block in the world of high-end independent watchmaking, and this time it’s an American brand too. This is certainly...
Two respected watch microbrands from the USA, Nodus Watches of California and Raven Watches from Kansas have just released this very attractive collaboration GMT travel...
In the past, when watch enthusiasts first heard the name Louis Vuitton brought up in a watch conversation, for many years they would think ‘fashion...
William Wood has just unveiled an exceptionally fun and playful limited edition. Allow me to introduce you to the Fire Exit Watch. It has been...
Revolution Watch is back with yet another exciting collaboration, this time with Chopard and the historical L.U.C 1860. Before we get into the watch itself,...
Founded in 2008 the Schofield Watch Company refers to itself as an eccentric British Watch brand. Browsing their website takes you into a different world....
Just when I thought Grand Seiko was moving past its typical quick-fire releases at the start of the year and the brand goes and releases...
It’s not every year that a brand celebrates its 150th anniversary – this year, it’s Piaget’s turn, and they’re celebrating it early in the year...
Recently Worn & Wound are on a roll regarding massively enticing collaborations. And this one is no exception. The Formex Essence Sector 39 Chronometer is...
Breitling just announced a set of 6 new Chronomats in collaboration with Victoria Beckham. This collaboration is a bit of an eyebrow-raiser to me, as...
This week heralded the fifth edition of LVMH Watch Week in Miami, and Zenith released three new chronographs to whet the appetite of many an...
Simple yet perfect, this is how Moritz Grossmann liked his watches, inside and out. Almost 180 years after his company’s birth the brand has released...
We’re still in the middle of the fifth installment of “LVMH Watch Week” in Miami when TAG Heuer drops their teal dial TAG Heuer Carrera...
Felipe Pikullik, a young Berlin-based watchmaker with German and Brazilian origins, has been making waves with his timepieces that represent something inherently traditional. Just so...
Frederique Constant has made its name as a brand that offers tremendous value by giving watch lovers access to features and complications at accessible prices....
There have been many watch brands that were forced to close their doors during the industry’s crippling quartz crisis, in the 1980s Swiss watch brand...
Delma turns 100 years old this year and has remained a family business from inception to date. To celebrate they are providing us with not...
The Alliance of British Watch and Clock Makers was founded in November 2020. It aims to be the watch and clock maker’s official trade body...
Swatch kicked off the year by dropping the sixth color to the Blancpain x Swatch collaboration: The Blancpain x Swatch Scuba Fifty Fathoms “Ocean of...
Mr Tsoroev is maturing as a watch maker, yeah I know that it sounds a little odd to say that about a 26 year old...
It is hard to believe that Frédérique Constant celebrated their 35th anniversary this year. This is a Swiss watch brand that had traditionally flown under...
At Dubai Watch Week 2023, Greubel Forsey, the relatively young independent watchmaker unveiled the third iteration of its sporty Balancier line, making this model the...
This collaboration watch is a Rowing Blazers signed Zodiac Super Sea Wolf GMT. For those that don’t follow clothing fashion, Rowing Blazers is an American...
Vacheron Constantin was, as we know founded in 1755 and has been continuously producing watches for very nearly 270 years. As a Maison, it has...
It all started with Jay-Z in 2005 and LeBron James in 2013. Ten years later we see this collab between Audemars Piguet and the record...
Heritage is a nigh impossible task to achieve. It takes time (over generations) and patience with the assumption that you are successful throughout. If you...
In the world of watches, very few brands are as polarizing as Franck Mueller. The watch brand that enjoyed unprecedented popularity in the 90s and...
In case you haven’t heard, Scottish Watches recently clocked half a millennium of episodes, and what better way to mark the occasion than with a...
When the Moser first released the Streamliner, it was met with raised eyebrows and lots of skepticism but also a lot of excitement. That case...
It’s been a full decade since Arnold & Son’s first Time Pyramid was unveiled. It was for the brand’s 25th “Revival Anniversary” in 2013, and...
Dubai Watch Week 2023 saw two new watches from the brand Ming. Here I review the the Ming 29.01 Dubai Edition by considering one of...
The sixth Dubai Watch Week has just concluded. It is organised by Ahmed Seddiqi and Sons which is one of the largest independent watch retailers...
Just one week after the Formula 1 Brazilian GP race, IWC unveils two Pilot’s Chronographs, each available on a strap or bracelet, amounting to 4...
For the uninitiated, this is going to be complicated. Who is the man on the dial, you might ask? And the answer is Phiippe Stern....
2023 has proven to be an extremely exciting year for Grand Seiko. The legendary Japanese watchmaker seems intent to end it on a high with...
Delma is a watch brand not many have heard about but should have! Founded in 1924 and has not only been in operation since then...
Being Creative Director for Breitling would be the dream job for many of us watch nerds. And if you caught his interview with Ariel Adams...
October 2023 is a very good month for Christopher Ward fans. We’ve had the release of the “Twelve Halo” and now we have the release...
It might sound a bit of hyperbole but we think we are witnessing history here. While it is true that mechanical watchmaking is somewhat obsolete...
In 2018 Leica which is known mainly for high-end cameras and lenses joined the watch game. The original watches were the L1 and L2. The...
If there was one good thing that came out of the pandemic, it has to be Studio Underd0g, at least in the world of watches....
Longines is doing well with its Spirit collection. The combination of retro-leaning style cues and modern features is as popular as ever with a significant...
There is no denying that Christopher Ward had a great year. With watches like the Bel Canto and The Twelve, the brand has cemented its...
It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that the Code 11.59 series had as difficult a launch as a collection from Audemars Piguet could possibly...
Seiko launches a lot of watches every year. Our friends at “aBlogtoWatch” estimated that they launch over 500 a year. That’s a lot of watch...
Synonymous with the most avant-garde, ArtyA has released probably their most daring watch to date. This time it is restrained, elegant, and graceful. Wait, what?...
Yema watches feature an incredible value for money – so beware if they produce a Tourbillion. Yes, you heard that right, a tourbillion from the...
Torsti Laine is an independent watchmaker who graduated from the Kelloseppäkoulu watch-making school in Finland. This is the same school from which Kari Voutilainen graduated...
If nothing else, Horage is a brand that has set out to challenge all the Swiss watch industry’s assumptions laid out for us. An in-house...
The two brands are at it again!! This time they created a themed watch that is indeed something new! Laser Tag – in case you...
Celadon Haute Horology has launched a new range of haute horology watches to further showcase the high-end of Chinese-made watches. Through a bespoke process, customers...
IWC became the “Official Engineering Partner” of the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula 1™ team in 2013. Lucky timing as the rules changed for 2014 meant that...
It is a wonderful time to be interested in watches. Not only have prices in the secondary market come down significantly, making it easier to...
The Tank Cintrée Rééditions is now 102 years old. What better time to add a platinum version to the lineup? Technically this watch is still...
Laco is a brand known for precision instruments. They are reliable and rugged plus new enthusiasts and watch collectors around the world, regard their Pilot...
Editor’s note: Due to Scottish Watches’ participation in the RedBar Global Meetup, we were permitted by Accutron and RedBar to run this piece a few...
Vacheron Constantin, as a Grande Madison should, has a very strong commitment to the “high arts” of watchmaking. Their Métiers d’Art collections display a rich...
When the Tudor Pelagos FXD Marine Nationale was first released in 2021, it was a watch that for all intents and purposes shouldn’t work for...
Batavi is a watch brand that has always been on my radar but never really interested me enough to pay any close attention to it....
Kurono Tokyo established itself as primarily a dress watchmaker with dials and finishing techniques that show off some of the best that Japanese watchmaking has...
Armin Strom is one of the many watchmakers based in the Swiss town of Biel/Bienne. Since their revitalization in 2009, they have been known for...
English watchmaker Garrick have announced they will start making (to order) a new version of their S5 this time with a moonphase complication. It’s hand...
Well, I clearly spoke too soon in introducing the recent Grand Seiko U.S. editions SBGA489, SBGA491 & SBGA493. Evidently, Grand Seiko has not moved past...
What do you get when you let two completely unhinged brands (I say this most positively) who constantly produce box-busting designs as part of their...
Introduction The Twelve by Christopher Ward was launched in April 2023 and caused a flurry of activity in the watch media world as people covered...
As one who has been hard on Grand Seiko for their seemingly never-ending releases that in my opinion dilute the brand and several of their...
There was a trend in the 60s and 70s of dive watches featuring the logos of the up-and-coming SCUBA companies of the day. There was...
William Massena, founder of Massena LAB, and Wei Koh, founder of Revolution have come together to create a collaboration watch that is generating some serious...
Fears is a brand that holds a great heritage in the UK. With hard work and great ideas, the brand has been resurrected. Part of...
A Lange & Sohne (ALS) celebrates the 10th anniversary of the 1815 Rattrapante Perpetual Calendar with the release of this white and pink gold...
The best way to describe Greubel Forsey is innovation, there is nothing like it in the watch world. Famous for their finishing techniques, exotic materials,...
It’s summery(ish) here in Scottish Watches Land and so it seems in Manufacture Formex in Biel/Bienne Switzerland. How do we know? Well not from looking...
In the world of dive watches, there are a few icons, some of them made it through the quartz crisis and some didn’t. From great...
L’Essentiel is a simple, elegant name for a watch. It implies a piece that has been broken down into its purest elements. Does this first...
One of the best releases from Tudor in the past couple of years, was the Tudor Pelagos FXD, given its combination of historical and present...
Habring2 has just introduced the new Chrono Felix Top Second. The Chrono-Felix model line include chronographs in various guises that share a mono-pusher architecture and...
In this hobby, one of the biggest currencies that a brand can have is its heritage, how long have they been around and what know...
Occasionally, the whole world goes crazy for a brand. Remember Beatlemania and all the fans going crazy in New York in 1964? Some watch brands...
Horage is back at it again. The brand has made its name by challenging the traditional price value structure that you would expect from Swiss-made,...
Photo Christopher Ward The Christopher Ward C1 Bel Canto was launched just after Worn and Wound’s Windup NYC 2023. I’m sure this was a bit...
Simon Brette is an eponymous new independent watch brand founded by a man whose name you might not know, but whose work you have definitely...
When a watch manufacturer is a member of the “British Watch & Clock Makers” and releases a new watch, we at Scottish Watches get the...
As humans we are programmed to explorer and at this year’s Watches & Wonders Montblanc have taken inspiration of some of the harshest places humans...
Parmigiani Fleurier has released a deceptively complicated new watch for this year’s watches and wonders, the TONDA PF Minute Rattrapante. They have also released the more...
No, the watch and dial designers of Grand Seiko are not running out of natural beauty or phenomena to get their inspiration. The opposite –...
When the ‘Maison’ was ready to show their novelties for this 2023 edition of Watches and Wonders I didn’t know what to expect, earlier in...
Zeniths’ pilot watch range isn’t really what you think about when you think of them but this year they are the brands focus at Watches...
Gerald Genta was a very busy man in the 1970s. The legacy he created still lives and goes from strength to strength. IWC was one...
Petermann Bedat may be relatively young, having just been started in 2017 by Gael Petermann and Florian Bedat, but it has quickly made its name...
A couple of weeks ago, we heard that Daniel Roth, which had been sitting in Bvlgari’s back catalogue of brands of some time now, would...
The C1 Bel Canto was undeniably the most significant watch launched by Christopher Ward in 2022. For those who like hypothetical questions, here’s a good...
Wes & Cullen, childhood friends since school are the founders of Nodus who brought out their first watch the Trieste to market in 2017. This...
These days, it is almost a cliché to say that less is more, but sometimes it is a saying that is perfectly apt. Grand Seiko’s...
I will have to confess that I’ve had a soft spot for Cartier for a while. I had been listening to a few watch podcasts...
First! But why? Looks a bit like the same Grand Seiko “inspired by some natural phenomenon in Japan close to the artisans’ studio” thing. Bear...
If there was ever a time to get into independent watchmaking, this would be it. We have not had as many options and choices to...
With the range of price points that Seiko offers and its reputation as an affordable entry brand into the world of mechanical watches, it is...
One thing you frequently hear about when you get into this hobby is the different reasons why watch brands are set up. Tudor was famously...
Singapore based Vario have just released their latest vintage inspired watch the VERSΛ Dual Time Reversible. The brand’s mission is to supply products that strike...