“A jewel of misplaced ingenuity.” George Daniels, ‘The Art of Breguet,’ describing the Sympathique. Under the leadership of Jean Arnault, and with the technical and design capabilities of Louis Vuitton’s manufacture, La Fabrique du Temps, Louis Vuitton has in the past released two collaborations with highly respected independents. The first, released in 2023, was a...

A look at the watches our community wore, loved, and obsessed over, from the expected to the truly unexpected. 2026 is well underway and the year-end wrap season has come and gone, or so it seemed. We have one more for you. In 2025 The 1916 Company launched a new community experience in our app...

A quarter of the way through the new century, do collectors still think in-house movements give you more bang for the buck? When I started reading about watches seriously, the internet was in its infancy, and most of the information available about watches had to be gotten from print – specialist magazines, books, and to...

The Blancpain Grand Double Sonnerie sets a new and very high bar for chiming complications. You could be forgiven for thinking that Blancpain has been going through a phase of general disinterest in innovating in the world of complicated watchmaking, although it’s worth remembering that when Blancpain showed its first watches of the modern era...

“Our evening began in Peter Sichel’s comfortable study, in his New York townhouse, where the candlelight was just right, the hi-fi was in the background, and the wine was delicious.” Welcome to the second episode of our newest flagship production, One Watch, One Record, where we sit down with movers, shakers, and moneymakers in the...

Welcome to the first edition of Weekly Watch Report— Think of this as your quick hit of all things horological. Your go-to, one-stop shop for the highlights, the hot takes, and the juicy bits of watch news from the week that truly matter. This isn’t an exhaustive catalog of every release or announcement. Instead, we’re...