SIHH 2016: A. Lange & Söhne Richard Lange Jumping Seconds Watch

A. Lange & Söhne Richard Lange Jumping Seconds Watch

Your quest for the watch that is both easy to read and very precise may be at an end. Germany’s A. Lange & Söhne this week unveiled the Richard Lange Jumping Seconds Watch at SIHH 2016, billing it as a “scientific observation watch” that promises both utmost precision and superb legibility To achieve this precision, the A. Lange & Söhne Richard Lange Jumping Seconds Watch relies on […]

Titan announces “Engineered by HP” Titan Juxt smartwatch

Titan Juxt

Hewlett-Packard last November announced that Titan, an Indian designer and manufacturer of watches and other fashion goods, had joined its “Engineered by HP” program. Titan today unveiled its first smartwatch to benefit from this new partnership. The Titan Juxt is billed as the first smartwatch to be built in India. Much as we have seen from the MB Chronowing and […]

Apple Watch Hermès online sales begin January 22nd

Apple Watch Hermès Double Tour

When the Apple Watch Hermès collection went on sale back in October, it was only available from a limited number of Apple Stores. Starting Friday, January 22nd, it will also be available online from both the Apple Store and Hermes.com. The Apple Watch Hermès collection smartwatches consist of a stainless steel case Apple Watch with an exclusive Hermès watch face and one of […]

Winners announced in Vector Watch Faces Competition

Vector Watch Face Contest

Vector Watch today announced the winner and runner-ups in its Vector Watch Faces Competition. The contest invited developers to come up with new watch faces for the Vector Luna and Vector Meridian smartwatches. The watch face called Moonshot (pictured below) was awarded 1st place by the three judges, Peter Aschwanden, a Swiss-born international executive, Steve Jarvis, a designer, and Angus Jenkins, an e-commerce consultant. Armin, its developer, […]

HTC denies rumours of Vive VR spin-off

HTC Vive headset

HTC today released an official statement in response to rumours that it was considering spinning off its Vive virtual reality business into a separate company owned by itself and HTC CEO and Chairwoman Cher Wang. The terse statement denies the rumours, indicating that its VR business still stay in-house. The full statement reads: Recent media reports in Taiwan, such as […]

Android Wear-powered Bluboo Xwatch smartwatch to launch in February

Bluboo Xwatch

Bluboo, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer that many of us in North America may not be familiar with, is readying its first smartwatch. Billed as the first Android Wear-powered smartwatch specialized in sport (Motorola and its Moto 360 Sport may disagree with that statement), the Bluboo Xwatch sports some rather impressive specifications for its rumoured price. Bluboo expects to launch the […]

SIHH 2016: Two new IWC Pilot’s Watch Top Gun Miramar

IWC Pilot's Watch Chronograph Top Gun Miramar and IWC Pilot's Watch Mark XVIII Top Gun Miramar

IWC Schaffhausen today declared 2016 the year of the Pilot’s Watches as it unveiled a number of new timepieces at SIHH 2016. Among them are two new models in its TOP GUN Miramar line named after the famed U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School. Joining an updated IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Top Gun Miramar is the new IWC Pilot’s Watch Mark XVIII Top Gun Miramar. At 44 […]

HTC to spin off Vive VR business as separate company?

HTC Vive headset

HTC is not the company it once was. Once among the leading smartphone manufacturers, it is now struggling to remain relevant in an ultra-competitive market that has already claimed many victims. Like many other companies, it has tipped a toe into the virtual reality space with its upcoming HTC Vive headset as it tries to catch the next big technology wave. A […]