hen Lionel Messi accepted FIFA’s Best Men’s Player award in 2022, the Argentine soccer star wore a platinum Patek Philippe Ref. 5270P Perpetual Calendar Chronograph that retails for $218,000. Call it ...

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has long been known for reshaping the digital landscape. But his personal interests reveal a surprising appreciation for one of the oldest forms of precision engineering: ...

As we observe the leap year on Feb. 29, it’s a fitting time to explore five unconventional perpetual calendar watches that put a fresh twist on one of watchmaking’s oldest complications, which ...

It’s hard to believe H. Moser & Cie could make a perpetual calendar any more minimalist than 2021’s Endeavour Perpetual Calendar Funky Blue, but the master of minimalism has reached a new level of ...

Bovet has never been accused of being minimalist. Known for producing complicated, highly decorated watches, the specialized watchmaker’s latest release, the Virtuoso VII Retrograde Perpetual Calendar ...

Vacheron Constantin has been adding midnight blue dials to some of its classic watches lately—a contemporary tweak that adds a jaunty overtone to an otherwise rigorously minimalist aesthetic. It has ...

Reading about watches can often feel like cracking open a textbook. Browsing—and even buying—means being barraged with inscrutable words and phrases like ”tourbillons,” “perpetual calendars,” “minute ...

The perpetual calendar is a famously challenging complication for watchmakers, as it mechanically tracks the Gregorian calendar (most typically) with all its quirks, including varying lengths of ...

Earlier this year at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) show in Geneva, German watch brand A. Lange & Sohne unveiled its first watch in a series of watches this year that is dubbed ...

For 2011 Citizen’s major new piece is perfect for the American market. If you want to check out their other cool stuff you’ll need to take a little trip over the Japan (which would be nice… go support ...

They call functions on mechanical watches "complications" for a reason, but sometimes things get so complicated that it's time to start over. That's the reasoning that led MB&F and Irish watchmaker ...