Watches you can put to the test

Panerai is an excellent example of the belief that a watch must meet "Professional" criteria in order to make the grade Dive watches are a case in point, being the only ones that have to comply with strict specifications to be so called At Panerai 2019 is the year of the Submersible: the Italian brand's dive watch par excellence whose ambassadors are none other than Mike Horn and free-diving champion Guillaume Néry.

The brand has forged a fusional relationship with its partners, Pirelli and Lamborghini, and this shows in the two new watches unveiled at SIHH - the Excalibur One-Off and the Huracán So from driving to flying, a subject IWC knows inside-out, having made pilot's watches for military use since 1936 Both these intrepid pilots were at SIHH to share their passion for what they consider to be the "Ultimate" plane, and for the watches IWC makes to accompany pilots in all situations and which never fail to deliver, even when soaring above the Mojave Desert.

Montblanc plays the vintage card with its 1858 collection, inspired by the military watches which its manufacturing wing, Minerva, was making in the early twentieth century. . Source