Jack Forster

Jack Forster is the Editor in Chief of Revolution Magazine, a quarterly publication celebrating the world of fine watchmaking, and he also manages Revolution Online, the foremost information and discussion site on the internet for watch enthusiasts.

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Road Warrior: The Horological Machine No. 5 “On The Road Again” From MB&F

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Road Warrior: The Horological Machine No. 5 “On The Road Again” From MB&F

One of the best known independent watch companies is also one of the smallest: Maximilian Büsser & Friends was founded by Maximilian Büsser in 2005, and though it’s solidly rooted in the Swiss watchmaking traditions of reliability and precision, you won’t find watches like these anywhere else in Switzerland –or, for that matter, in the world. MB&F watches –conceived by Büsser himself, in collaboration with the Friends (who include watch world household names like Eric Giroud, who designed Horological Machine No. 5) MB&F watches are as far from the staid stereotype of Swiss watchmaking as it is possible to get READ MORE

Flat Out Beautiful: The Piaget Emperador Coussin Ultra-Thin Minute Repeater

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Flat Out Beautiful: The Piaget Emperador Coussin Ultra-Thin Minute Repeater

Regular Haute Time readers know what a minute repeater is: a watch that chimes the hours, quarter hours, and minutes “on demand,” it’s considered by far the most challenging of all the classic complications. Not only is it incredibly complex and delicate, it requires enormous skill to make one that not only functions accurately (for instance, even at 12:59, it must not mistakenly chime 1:00) but also has a pleasant tone and good volume. The circular steel gongs, hammers, and complex rack-and-snail gear system that allows the watch to “read” the time internally and translate it to sound is so READ MORE

The Serpent and the Stars: Vacheron Constantin Presents the Metiers d’Art Legend of the Chinese Zodiac Year of the Snake

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The Serpent and the Stars: Vacheron Constantin Presents the Metiers d’Art Legend of the Chinese Zodiac Year of the Snake

2013 is the Year of the Snake in the Chinese Zodiac, in which –unlike Western astrology, where the symbolic animal changes every month –an animal reigns for an entire year. The Snake personality is calm and unruffled on the surface, but just as with an actual snake, someone born under this sign can strike without warning if provoked; they are considered individuals with hidden depths and resources. It’s fitting, therefore, that to celebrate the Year of the Snake, Vacheron Constantin has created a watch with many layers of beauty and meaning as well –the Legend of the Chinese Zodiac “Year READ MORE

Fast Track: Hublot Unveils the F1 King Power Austin

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Fast Track: Hublot Unveils the F1 King Power Austin

Formula 1 has not had an easy time of it in the United States. Despite its huge international audience –over 500 million viewers in nearly 200 countries –it’s never quite managed to take hold here. With no US team or driver since the shutdown of the US F1 team in 2010, and with no US F1 champion driver since Mario Andretti in 1978, American motorsports fans have largely contented themselves with the pleasures of NASCAR and IndyCar racing, Formula 1, despite its juggernaut status in the rest of the world, has been relegated to also-ran status as far as American READ MORE

Human Touch: The Lange Zeitwerk “Handwerkkunst” Limited Edition

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Human Touch: The Lange Zeitwerk “Handwerkkunst” Limited Edition

One of the nice things about A. Lange & Söhne is how little noise they make about how much goes into their watches. Every year a few thousand timepieces –a bare handful, by the modern standards of mass luxury behemoths, who leverage their name recognition into the sale of millions of units of God knows what, in the name of the almighty shareholder –make their way from a small town in what used to be East Germany, called Glashütte, to those few around the world who are lucky enough to know about Lange & Söhne and who have the confidence, READ MORE

Hard Cases: The Panerai Radiomir Composite 3 Days & Radiomar Black Seal 3 Days Automatic

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Hard Cases: The Panerai Radiomir Composite 3 Days & Radiomar Black Seal 3 Days Automatic

Even today, when its history should be known by anyone with pretensions to serious interest in watchmaking, Panerai is sometimes misperceived as a maker of fashionably large watches –a follower, in short, rather than a leader. Nothing could be further from the truth. Panerai began life as an instrument maker and created some of the world’s first true, purpose-built watches for undersea exploration and navigation, and its earliest series-produced diver’s watch –the Radiomir –is named for the radium paste used to give its dial searchlight-strong visibility in the murky waters in which combat divers of the Italian navy operated in READ MORE

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