Spring 2022

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Celebrating the Machine with a Heartbeat

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Founder’s Note
I ain’t no Chicken Little walking around in existential angst, waiting for the Armageddon, listening to Johnny Cash’s “The Man Comes Around,” decrying that the sky is falling. But I’ve always lived by the simple adage, “Hope for the best, but prepare
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Revolution Watch
FOUNDER & EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Wei Koh @wei_koh_revolution EXECUTIVE EDITOR Joyceline Tully joytully@revolutionmagazines.com EDITORIAL HEAD, ASIA/ONLINE Sumit Nag sumit@revolutionmagazines.com SUB-EDITORS Catherine Koh & Eileen Sim DIGITAL WRITER Jerem
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Contributors
The founder of TudorCollector.com, Ross Povey is regarded as the world’s leading expert on vintage Tudor watches. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Revolution magazine in the UK. He has contributed to influential horological publications including T
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Center Of Attention
The point of a tourbillon is largely to act as a magnet for attention and, in this regard, Franck Muller has stayed true to ideal by placing a large tourbillon right in the center in its signature Cintrée Curvex case. In doing so, Franck Muller has a
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Traversing The Globe, Glashütte Style
Today we live as global citizens of the world, with our fates and lives very much intertwined, thanks to the various technologies and systems that power international exchange. One individual who played no small part in envisioning and weaving the th
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The Magic And Mystery Of Minerva And Montblanc
The prominence of the number 1858 in Montblanc’s watch collections is no coincidence. It represents the year watchmaking came to the small Swiss town of Villeret, in the form of a movement-making company founded by Charles Robert and his (fabulously
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The Modern Dress Code
Nomos is headquartered in Glashütte, Germany and has been an independent brand since its inception just after the fall of the Berlin Wall when Roland Schwertner turned his entrepreneurial spirit to watchmaking. The first collection was released in 19
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Iwc Goes Back To Flight School
I WC has a long history of creating technical tool watches for the military. The TOP GUN family of watches are inspired by and dedicated to the talented men and women who work and train at the US Navy’s legendary TOPGUN school. The watchmakers at IWC
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Omega Pays Tribute To The Past
The very first Speedmaster, reference CK2915‑1, was released in 1957 and revolutionized the sports chronograph with professional race car drivers in mind. Omega moved the tachymeter scale to the bezel to make it easy and intuitive for capturing accur
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Top Of The Atmos-phere
Jaeger-LeCoultre’s watchmakers surprised the watch industry and the world with their first Atmos clock in 1928. The concept was revolutionary at the time and still fascinates us today. Sealed within an airtight capsule, a mix of gases react to temper
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The Power Of Red
Red has always been a special color. It knows how to draw eyeballs and capture full attention. Chanel has embraced the boldness of red as one of their five signature colors, in addition to white, black, beige and gold. Gabrielle Chanel has said, “If
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DEFY 21 CHROMA & DEFY MIDNIGHT
Zenith’s focus for 2022 has resolutely been the Defy line, with the introduction of a faithful re-edition of the original coffre-fort Defy that launched the line in 1969 as well as the new Defy Skyline with El Primero-driven running 1/10th second fea
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The New Aquaracer Professional 200 Collection
Last year, TAG Heuer returned to the water in a big way with a revamped and refined Aquaracer 300, their dedicated dive watch with a distinctively shaped bezel. This year, the brand is releasing its second underwater act with a full suite of Aquarace
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Zenith Defy Skyline — An Urban Definition Of A Classic
The year 1969 was a key year for Zenith for two reasons. The Le Locle-based brand, which was founded in 1865, had two significant releases that year. The first was the El Primero movement, which was the world’s first fully integrated, non-modular, au
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THE YELLOW GOLD COLLECTION BIG BANG INTEGRAL & SANG BLEU
In the 1980s, Jean-Claude Biver defined Hublot by its innovative concept of “Art of Fusion” which combines gold and rubber. Now, in 2022, Mr. Biver’s vision has been carried forward by CEO Ricardo Guadalupe. From a modern take on the 1980 Classic Ori
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Octo Roma Serpenti Haute Horlogerie And Joaillerie
Bvlgari’s focus for LVMH Watch Week 2022 brings the limelight back to its identity as the preeminent Roman jeweler that has built the in-house watchmaking know-how to rival the best that Swiss watchmaking has to offer. Moving right along to its novel
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Masters Of Horology
Despite the COVID storm raging globally in the last few years, the Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants (AHCI), in effect a guild of independent watchmakers, has maintained a busy calendar of international showings every year, bringing the m
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Past Future Perfect
The world as we know it is mapped to the last detail. Even before the ubiquity of satellites and global travel, the earth was a seemingly known quantity. Explored, charted and tamed over hundreds of years. And, more recently, even the skies above us
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Introducing The Chopard L.u.c Qf — Revolution Edition
The new 25-piece limited edition L.U.C QF – Revolution Edition in stainless steel, with a luminous “scientific” or sector dial, represents Revolution’s third collaboration with one of the greatest horological manufactures on the planet. That is, of c
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Grail Watch 1: Ressence × Alain Silberstein “Carpe Diem”
You know you’ve done something right when Max Büsser, the founder of MB&F and the man I consider the grand architect of independent watchmaking culture, wants to buy your watch. It happened as Max and I were on the escalator in Geneva’s Globus depart
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The Immortals: The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak And Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather
The 1970s was a chrysalis of upheaval and change. It was characterized on one side by the libidinous abandon of disco culture and, on the other, by a permanent shift in prevailing ethics with the rise of feminism and the demand for gender equality. B
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The Right Watch: Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda Pf
As a freshly divorced middle-aged man who started dating again six months ago, I have an analogy for you. Basically, getting to know a watch is a lot like becoming familiar with the presence of another human being in your life. The reality is, no mat
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The Genius Of Danny Govberg, Co-founder Of Watchbox
Danny Govberg is a genius. I know this because I vividly recall standing beside him a half decade ago as he showed me not 10, not 20, but the extensive collection of François-Paul Journe watches he had amassed for one simple reason: he loved the watc
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Identification Of The Nations
I have been researching vintage Tudor watches for almost two decades now, with a special focus on military-issued pieces. Up until now, with the exception of modern collections made for military groups, all the military Tudors that have surfaced so f
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Tudor And The Military — A World Tour
Since its launch, the Pelagos has been the professional dive watch offering from the modern iteration of Tudor. The brand has been smashing it out of the park year after year with the Black Bay family, a watch that can go to depths that will be more
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DOUBLE FREAK: HEAVY METAL MAESTRO & MASTER WATCHMAKER
Anthrax was one of the thrash metal icons of New York that rose from the clubs of the outer boroughs to the stages of the world. And Dan Spitz was its lead guitarist from 1983 to 1995. The band helped to forge a path for the genre of metal alongside
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Dubai Watch Week: The Watch World’s Greatest Cultural Initiative
It was November 1, 2021, and the jury of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) had convened. As this was the first time since the onset of the COVID pandemic that we could gather physically in force, the significance of what we were participat
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The Man Putting America Back On The Watchmaking Map
Anyone with a passing understanding of horological history will recognize the significance of American watchmaking. From the mid-19th century on, American watch brands echoed the spirit of innovation that spurred the great American industrial boom. F
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Cool Britian
Whether you believe that Brexit was the best thing that ever happened to the UK, releasing the shackles of European betrothment, or you are adamant that it left the UK the poorer party in the Euro divorce, there can be no arguing that the British wat
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Swiss Made + The World
Two words have become synonymous with quality and reliability when it comes to timepieces. On the 23rd of December, 1971, those two words were codified and protected under law. Those two words were, of course, “Swiss Made.” While legal protection of
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The World’s Watchmakers On The Swiss:
Since 2015, Chase Fancher has been the driving force behind Chicago-based Oak & Oscar, an accessibly priced brand making utilitarian, casual and well-made watches with a local touch. For Fancher, this means numerous trips to Switzerland, and a unique
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THE CRYPTO-CRAZE: TALKING NFTS & BLOCKCHAIN IN WATCHES WITH LEONIE FLÜCKIGER
For years now, we in the luxury sector (as well as those of us who still, oh, I don’t know, read actual news produced by reputable publications) have been hearing buzzwords such as “blockchain,” “bitcoin,” “cryptocurrency” and, more recently, “non-fu
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Twin Beating Hearts: Double Oscillator Watches
A mechanical watch operates on the same premise as it did over 200 years ago — a curiously complete system of minute parts moving in perfect harmony. It begins with a coiled mainspring which, when wound tightly, causes a succession of toothed wheels
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Bourn In Oman: The Rolex Collection
In a world where anybody with a watch and an Instagram account can call themselves a watch expert, there remain a number of old school dealers who have been there to witness all the trends, hypes, highs and lows of watch collecting. One such connoiss
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The Collection
STAINLESS STEEL ROLEX SEA-DWELLER REF. 1665 with red Khanjar insignia instead of the usual “Double Red” model designation and depth rating. The outer caseback is engraved “Asprey.” This is a full box set with matching numbers and was from a batch of
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Women Love Watches: Sumei Shum Of Singapore
In the horological community, finding a man who is a serious watch collector is as simple as a watch-related hashtag search on any number of social media channels, but finding women who not only collect but also post about their collections has prove
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The Story Of Jacob Arabo
“It is not a dream of motorcars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, rega
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Mr Talking Hands On: What’s A Minute Repeater And How Does It Work?
A REGULAR COLUMN BY MR TALKING HANDS OF WATCHFINDER.COM We envisage the great master watchmakers to have an almost mythical status, wizened men of great age assembling the finest complications with ease — and that’s true, to a point, and that point i
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The Final Word Kate Lacey
Kate Lacey is a familiar name and face to many watch enthusiasts. Over a period of 15 years, she worked at and led watch departments at three of the most important auction houses. Looking for a new challenge, she established The Shrew in the summer o

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