The watchmaker has taken Kurt Klaus’s revolutionary 1980s reinvention of the perpetual calendar mechanism a step further ...

WHEN IWC SCHAFFHAUSEN UNVEILED THE Da Vinci Chronograph Perpetual Calendar in 1985, it showed how the perpetual calendar – one of the most complicated mechanical watches – could be made simple and ...

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 ...

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A. Lange & Sohne makes an outsize impact by slimming down a classic calendar timepiece, and illuminating an complex model.

The perpetual calendar, prized for its convenience and praised for its complexity, has become a hallmark of watchmaking proficiency. But even among the brands that are good enough to make them, there ...

If you glance at your watch on July 1st and find that its calendar reads “31,” you can thank the Romans. In the earliest days of their (now) fallen empire, their calendar followed a fairly simple ...

The race to create the ultimate ultra-thin watch movement has led to some pretty cool watches over the past few years, leaving us in awe of the wonders of micro-engineering. But is it really enough to ...

Perpetual calendars, as a mechanism, are a natural extension of a watch’s function. A simple time-only watch will give you hours and minutes, maybe seconds too, every 24 hours (one single rotation of ...

Audemars Piguet’s first crop of newness this year celebrates the brand’s status as one of Switzerland’s oldest brands. This year marks the company’s 150th anniversary, and it is marking the occasion ...

What I’ve discovered about people who love watches, despite the fact that smartphones have stolen away some of their relevance, is they’re obsessed with mechanics. The students at the Patek Philippe ...