Issue 31

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Celebrating the Machine with a Heartbeat

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Founder’s Note
I sometimes wonder what the Greek philosophers would think about us today. I imagine Plato or Socrates observing young couples conduct entire conversations through WhatsApp on their phones while sat across from each other at dinner and I can already
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Editor’s Note
They say that when it rains, it pours. Never was that truer for us this last quarter, when a slew of different things all took place simultaneously, both internally and externally, all of which added up to massive transformations in the Revolution te
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Iron Man’s Favoured Wrist Gear: Urwerk
Part of the journey is the end. And Robert Downey Jr ends his decade long career as one of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes with not one, but two URWERKs. We first notice the iconic UR 105-CT Streamliner on Tony Stark’s wrist when the Avengers old and new co
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2019 Rolex Laureates Announced
Five Rolex Laureates for 2019 were announced at the Rolex Awards Ceremony, which was held in June at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. The awards recognise exceptional visionaries who are significantly improving the world around th
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Patek Philippe Watch Art Grand Exhibition Singapore 2019
Patek Philippe will be holding its fifth Watch Art Grand Exhibition in Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands Theatre from September 28th until October 13th. Admission is free. Held every two years in selected cities around the globe, this is the first ti
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All’s Super: Citizen Watch and Ispace Partner Up
The world’s first race to the Moon was primarily fuelled by the national and political ambitions of two of the world’s then greatest powers. After a protracted lull in the development of space exploration, the world’s second space race is finally sta
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50 Years On, The El Primero’s Story Continues
Last month, Singapore hosted Zenith’s travelling exhibition, themed A Star Through Time, which pays historic tribute to the first automatic chronograph movement in watchmaking history, as well as the gentleman who saved the movement from irrevocable
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Changing The Game
You’ve probably heard the G-Shock creation tale before: one day on his way to work, the founder of the Casio G-Shock, Kikuo Ibe, dropped his watch (a gift from his father) and it was destroyed. To this day, Ibe-san has not revealed what watch it is,
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The Omega Speedmaster: The Sartorial Choice
Anyone familiar with horological inclinations knows a large part of my heart — at least one full chamber — is filled to the brim with affection for Omega’s iconic Speedmaster. Because it was this watch, originally built for the burgeoning culture of
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Eco Is The New Luxe
Sustainable luxury, circular fashion, eco-luxury. These code words for responsible luxury practices in the modern world have become common phrases in a society that now expects wholesome corporate policies in exchange for consumer dollars. But these
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A Rapid Ascension
In the absence of external digital stimulation or access to limitless data, the mental thought process of a hyperactive addled mind such as that of this journalist might run something like this. “Why did I choose to wear, of all things, two layers of
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Only Watch 2019
Since 2005, the watch industry has rallied in support of the biennial Only Watch charity auction to fund cure research for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This year, 52 brands will participate, contributing over 50 watches that include some collaborativ
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What You (probably) Didn’t Know About The Rugby World Cup
Rugby was invented by William Webb Ellis of the Rugby School, one of the oldest independent grammar schools (since 1567) in 1823, when he picked up a soccer ball and ran with it. (We’re guessing he didn’t understand why people were deliberately optin
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Re-defining The G-shock
In 2013, when the G-Shock turned 30, Casio introduced a series of limited editions across its entire range, from the regular G-Shock to the Metal Twisted (MT-G) series and the Metal Resin (MR-G) categories. Yet around the same time, the inventor of t
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Inspired By Nature Perfected By Man
Design is the answer to an equation that involves finding a balance between aesthetics and function; an equation that’s full of other variables such as cultural and popular trends, social and artistic movements, and much more. Which is why enduring d
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Walking The Ultra-thin Line
At SIHH 2018, amongst the grand debuts like Royal Oak Offshore 25th Anniversary re-issue, the Royal Oak “Jumbo” extra-thin in titanium and platinum, and even the first Royal Oak Concept made specifically for women, there was a sleeper hit. It wasn’t
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The Fifth Element
In 1992, two lifelong friends who bonded over a shared love of aviation and watches decided that rather than wait for an industry to create something they would appreciate and love, they’d give it a shot themselves. They started by teaming up with He
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Through The Looking Glass
The municipality of Hölstein is one that can only be described as serene. It’s a picturesque landscape that’s laden with streams and rivers, arable land and a smattering of industrial buildings that would easily fit into a Waterhouse painting. It’s a
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Perpetual Ticker
While we don’t like stereotyping consumers — largely because we’d be stereotyping ourselves — we usually see watch purchasers divvied up into three main segments. The first category belongs to those who focus on the hyped-up big names of the industry
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A Royal Return
The term ‘Mil-Spec’ refers to international standards meant to span the gamut of products used by the military and aimed at achieving interoperability across platforms. It began as an intercontinental project in the 19th century and gained worldwide
REVOLUTION DIGITAL6 min readFashion
Blue-blooded Creations
The story of mankind’s fascination with the color blue is one that stretches across civilizations and cultures. The Egyptians created the first synthetic blue pigment for use with ceramics, statues and other traditional crafts, and went on to develop
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Crimes Against Passion
The Buddhist summed it up with perfect economy: desire is the root of all suffering. And though they mean that unrequited avarice is poison to the soul, it can also elicit suffering for those in possession of that object of desire — especially if tha
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Around The World In The Silver Spitfire With Iwc Schaffhausen
I imagine the moment that pilots Matt Jones and Steve Boultbee Brooks approached IWC’s CEO Chris Grainger-Herr with the seemingly implausible, highly irrational and altogether far-fetched idea of getting into a 75-year-old airplane that in stock form
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Alpine Ascent
Haute monde 1970s was an unabashedly nomadic experience. You could wake up one day in Mustique and the next in Marrakesh. Its glitterati eschewed the permanence of any one home base as it had embraced in the 1950s with New York and in the ’60s with S
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Going Eco-conscientious
The video campaign that was released on Instagram just before Panerai officially kicked off its Shanghai Hub was wildly dramatic. Immense sea creatures leapt out toward the screen, a giant octopus’s tentacles whipped around, flailing as it attempted
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Patek Philippe And The Perpetual Calendar Chronographs Of The 21st Century
We’ve waxed lyrical about Patek Philippe’s brilliance at both the perpetual calendar and annual calendar over the decade and a half that we’ve been around, and more recently in past months, as we found out more about the upcoming Patek Philippe Watch
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‘X’ Marks The (final) Spot
The development of the tourbillon in 1795 remains one of the most notable in the history of mechanical watchmaking and one that takes an unusually creative mind to invent, certainly — most people wouldn’t have thought to invent a rotating escapement
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Why Casio Took So Long To Create The Über-cool G-shock Full Metal 5000
You would have to have been living under some sort of horological rock to not be aware of how massively smitten the collective watch collecting community has become with Casio’s Full Metal 5000 series of G-Shock watches. Funny thing is, this isn’t th
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The Black Star Rises
There’s a delicious irony in military watches that’s often lost because the genre implies usage during armed conflict. Despite the needs created by wars for the development of watches suitable to the task, peacetime has also yielded military timepiec
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The Spirit Of Integration
A watch on a bracelet, or a bracelet that tells the time, the integrated bracelet watch is a bold statement. Uncompromisingly inflexible, and designed as an indivisible whole, it is not a watch of half measures. While its design roots stem from the e
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Rolex Two-tone Hits The High Notes
Sometimes you could be forgiven for thinking that the only Rolexes people care about are steel sports watches: the ceramic Daytona, BLNR “Batman” or BLRO “Pepsi” GMT Masters, “Hulk” Submariners, “Orange Hand” Explorer 2s. Even the Datejust 41 in stee
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Lock, Stock And Barrel
Watch cases, though fundamentally adhering to the form-follows-function recipe, are as expressive of a timepiece’s identity as is the dial. Think of the bulge on the side of a Greubel Forsey, the U-shape of an Urwerk or the unique and iconoclastic ca
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Icon Of Time: The Heuer Monaco
Imagine 50 years ago, early morning on May 18th in 1969, you are Jo Siffert, opened the door of your Bahama yellow 911S, started the engine commencing a new journey you were looking forward for years. Imagine you are burning for motorsports and had d
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the First Sin
Having more than once pointed out the irony – or, to be kind, paradox – of owning watches that will never be used for their primary purposes, our UK editor, [Richard] Holt reminded me that the joke is growing stale. Even self-deprecation about the di

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