Rob Corder

4 days ago | watchpro.com | Rob Corder

IWC has produced a three-hand automatic version of its Colours of Top Gun Pilot’s watch in its Mojave Desert ceramic. The sand colour has been a surprise hit for the brand since being used for a Big Pilot Perpetual Calendar and Chronograph. This time in its simplest form, the 41mm x 11.7mm watch has the familiar dark brown dial with paler brown hour markers, minute track and Super-LumiNova-filled hands.

4 days ago | watchpro.com | Rob Corder

My favourite watch in a meagre ‘collection’ is a Zenith Respirator from 1969. There is a family story behind it, which adds to its personal value to me, but it is also a quality timekeeper. A few years’ ago, a bunch of us watch journalists at a press event were all invited to test the accuracy of whatever we were wearing that day on a timegrapher. I happened to be wearing the Zenith and its 56-year-old movement could have earned COSC-certification.

5 days ago | watchpro.com | Rob Corder

The United States imported Swiss watches worth a staggering CHF 852 million in April as manufacturers raced to shift stock into the country before the imposition of new tariffs that might be as high as 31%. Rolex accounts for around one-third of the US luxury watch market. Although the threatened tariff has been paused for 90 days, and could be deemed illegal, Swiss watchmakers have been taking no chances and appear to have made every effort to land product before they hit.

5 days ago | watchpro.com | Rob Corder

Time+Tide will open a Discovery Studio in New York in the autumn, the company’s owner Andrew McUtchen has confirmed. Time+Tide opened its first Studio in its home city of Melbourne in 2023 as a clubhouse and retail showroom that brought together a community of watch enthusiasts and mainly independent brands. A second Studio opened in London last year. In addition to its main purpose as a multibrand retail store, it has become a hub for live events, product launches, collector meet-ups.

1 week ago | watchpro.com | Rob Corder

2024 was challenging for many of the biggest watchmakers in Switzerland as customers converged on banker brands — Rolex, Cartier, Audemars Piguet and Patek Philippe — while most saw double-digit declines in sales. The independent sector, ranging from kitchen table microbrand start-ups to decades-old Swiss privateers selling six-figure timepieces, was not immune to a cooling of the market from its post-pandemic highs, but appear to have fared better than their more industrialised peers.