Swiss Made Watch

The obsession with finesse, reinvented by hand There are watches that show the time, and others that tell the story of a pact between the eye, the hand and the material. This ultra-thin manual windingheir to a long tradition of mastery of finesse, belongs to the second category. Its promise is simple, almost provocative: to

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Design and comfort on the wrist Visually, the Galaxy Fit 3 remains in the very sober rectangular bracelet style: Aluminum housing, 42.9 × 28.8 × 9.9 mm, 18.5 g without the bracelet, it’s really light on the wrist. Really, what does that give? Daily: you forget it quickly. The light weight + the thin format

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Oris Big Crown 34mm Diamonds: mechanical softness! On Mon Petit Horloger, I use cookies to guarantee you the best possible experience. Ok for you? Cookie settingsACCEPT Privacy & Cookies Policy

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Why manual winding still appeals In a world where everything is automated, manual winding remains a profoundly human gesture. This is the moment when the mechanics awakens at your fingertips, where you take a minute to listen to the watch speak. The discreet clicking, the slight resistance that builds under the crown, then the assurance

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After having dissected Emmanuel Macron’s watches, that of Éric Zemmour and the highly publicized wrist of Jordan Bardella, it was logical to continue the tour of the new French right. This time, we are interested in the watch of the woman who, for a long time, was presented as the “shadow strategist”: Sarah Knafo. The

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Recognizing the authentic: a story of details In shop windows as on the wrists of heirs, the Swiss watch is a language. It speaks of the precision, the patience, the demands of the workshop. But faced with increasingly convincing counterfeits, how can we recognize a real Swiss watch, authentic down to its screws and its

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Transparent charm: why the skeleton watch fascinates To expose a movement is to tell the intimate story of watchmaking. The skeleton watch is not just an exercise in style: it is a declaration of love for mechanics, a manifesto where each bridge, each wheel, each breath of the balance becomes a setting. Born in the

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Design and comfort: tech jewelry or confident sports watch? There Pixel Watch 4this is clearly the “tech gem” camp. Compact case, soft lines, curved screen that catches the eye. It goes very well with a shirt, a jacket, even in the office. On the wrist, you feel a light, discreet watch, which doesn’t scream “I’m

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VictorInox Air Pro Automatic: The Watch Born to Travel! On Mon Petit Horloger, I use cookies to guarantee you the best possible experience. Ok for you? Cookie settingsACCEPT Privacy & Cookies Policy

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Progress in watchmaking is rarely a bolt from the blue. It’s a blast. An improvement that creeps into the workshops, slips under the dials, and transforms our relationship with time without fuss. The silicon hairspring belongs to this family of discreet innovations. No thunderous slogans, but the obvious: over the past twenty years, the precision

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Sports features and GPS navigation: Garmin Forerunner 965 versus Coros Pace Pro Variety of sports modes and tools dedicated to trail running We’re not going to lie to each other. The pleasure of a sports watch is measured by the number of profiles available. On this ground, Garmin drives the point home: more than 30

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Garmin Forerunner 570: the 265 that ate watts On paper, the Forerunner 570 looks like a “simple” continuation of the 265. In practice, it corrects a lot of small everyday frustrations, without changing the DNA: a watch for running fast, training seriously, doing triathlons, but without an overload of outdoor functions. Positioning and target audience

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Connected and multimedia functions: music, payments, notifications, and comparison with Apple Watch Ultra In terms of connected functions, the Epix Gen 2 has little to envy of the most modern watches. It allows you to store titles, synchronize playlists from Spotify, Deezer Or Amazon Musicthen listen to it all via Bluetooth on headphones without having

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Flyback, the art of restarting time in a single gesture On a classic chronograph, the rule is immutable: start, stop, then reset. The flyback chronograph – or return in flight – shakes up this order. With just one press, the hand instantly returns to 12 o’clock and starts again immediately. A gesture which, on the

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Health and sensors: serious vs advanced health SE 3: the solid health base for 95% of people This is where most went wrong before: the SE was too limited. Here, the SE 3 fixes almost everything which was cheap. You now have: A 2nd generation optical heart rate sensor. A temperature sensor (useful for monitoring

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In our “Who wears what?” section. », section historical dictators, after Hitler and his supposed watch sold at auction, today let us look at the case of the mustachioed comrade of the Soviet Union: Joseph Stalin. Between Swiss pocket watches, luxurious diplomatic gifts and Soviet watchmaking, the iron man was not so deprived when it

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Sport, GPS, autonomy, water: what really matters outside On the pure sport side, the two watches share the same philosophy: multi-band GNSS, stable tracking, very numerous sports profiles (170+ on T-Rex 3, a little more on Pro), downloadable offline maps. For hiking, trail running, mountain biking, running, you are clearly in the right category. On

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A mechanical heart beating on the wrist At a time when the world is synchronizing with notifications, the automatic watch remains one of the rare everyday objects whose precision is born from a purely mechanical ballet very different from quartz. It lives from your gestures, comes to life without a battery, and transforms each movement

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