WOW Singapore Magazine - Legacy 2023

In this issue

The annual Legacy issue returns, this time with a celebration of the Breguet Type XX watch collection. The heart of the issue is in revealing how the most exclusive watches in the world are made across Switzerland, Germany and Japan.

A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

Breguet stuns with the new Type XX watches, and inspires us to venture an opinion...

2 mins

PURSUING PRECISION

Rolex Founder Hans Wilsdorf once remarked, \"I was convinced that my life's success revolved around precision.\" The Swiss watch manufacture continues to pursue a perpetual quest for excellence and furtherance of that very same precision

7 mins

TRUE ORIGINAL

The story of how Glashütte Original earned its name and continues to present itself worthy of its grand name

8 mins

Triple Calendar

Parmigiani Fleurier consolidates three calendar complications into three, three-watch collector's boxes

5 mins

FINAL FATHOMS

Blancpain revealed the last tribute to its own achievement of creating the first true dive watch in 1953 with the Fifty Fathoms Act 3

6 mins

Vintage Watches: A Beginner's Guide

If you have often looked ata shining, gleaming new watch and thought, where’s the character? This article is for you. Kai Marshall turns his decade-long vintage watch obsession into a helpful guide for those willing to dive head first into this rabbit hole

7 mins

BOLD TYPE

Breguet celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Type XX flyback chronograph with two new models, and ushers in a new era for this iconic timepiece

10+ mins

Like Clockwork

From an overview of watchmaking regions of Switzerland, we move in on a few great manufactures, while expanding our horizons into Germany and Japan

3 mins

Plan-Les-Watches

After years of trying to make it happen, we finally receive our invitation to visit the new Patek Philippe PP6 manufacture building

7 mins

BRIDGES OF LA CHAUXDE-FONDS

Girard-Perregaux reintroduced its production facilities to us. It was one of its first press visits since the brand became independent once again

6 mins

PROBUS SCAFUSIA

IWC Schaffhausen presents an excellent reminder that not all great watchmaking can be found in the French-speaking parts of Switzerland

7 mins

FREAK HOUSE

Now hailed as the Manufacture of Freedom, Ulysse Nardin is back to its independent ways. We finally get to visit and pay tribute to one of our heroes

7 mins

REACHING THE STAR

The editor of WOW Thailand makes that long overdue manufacture visit to Zenith, finally

6 mins

SEEING DOUBLE

A. Lange & Söhne takes traditional watchmaking far beyond double assembly, as we learn at the manufacture in Glashütte

7 mins

PRECISE BEAUTY

In an extension of an earlier story, we take the Grand Seiko manufacture tour, going for the first time to the Shinshu Watch Studio and Atelier Ginza

7 mins

Dressed And Impressed

In a surprising move, Rolex entirely reshuffled their dress watch offer with the Perpetual 1908. Proclaiming Rolex is not all about sports watches, the 1908 is filled with hints at past classic-looking and historic timepieces. Only much better

6 mins

PASSAGE THROUGH TIME

Whether precise or beautiful, timekeepers only tell part of the story. The annual Legacy issue proves to be the perfect spot to reintroduce a general story about space-time itself

10+ mins

GRAND DESIGN

We catch up with Grand Seiko CEO Akio Naito at Ginza House, Tokyo, in our first real conversation since Watches and Wonders Geneva. He tempers our enthusiasm for complications with a reminder that accuracy is still paramount at the Japanese brand

7 mins

NARRATIVE WIZARDRY

Montblanc Managing Director of the Watch Division Laurent Lecamp explains the importance of dramatic authenticity

7 mins

FRANKLY SPEAKING

A. Lange & Söhne Product Development Director Anthony de Haas gets completely uninhibited about the Odysseus Chronograph

7 mins

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