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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Racing Heart: The Montblanc Timewriter II Fréquence Chronographe 1,000

If you’re a regular Haute Time reader you probably know that some of the biggest innovations in recent years are in the development of chronographs capable of measuring ever-smaller fractions of a second. READ MORE

Tanks For The Memories: The Cartier Tank Anglaise

There’s no doubt that it’s one of the most imitated (if not the most imitated) watches in the world: the Cartier Tank, first introduced in 1918, has a shape which probably millions would recognize without necessarily realizing that it is a specific watch, by a particular company, made at a very particular point in time. READ MORE

Ten timepieces to make your heart beat faster than a 30-second tourbillon.

There are now as many supermodels as super watches heating up the scene at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva. Eva Herzigova, Helen Svedin and Adriana Lima were all spotted during the weeklong festivities in January, as were notables such as Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen and Ewan McGregor. But the spotlight never strayed from the magnificent watches, presented to great fanfare by some of the biggest names in the industry. The Roger Dubuis Excalibur Double Flying Tourbillon is like the Cirque du Soleil of timepieces. Rendered in blackened titanium, it is skeletonized for dramatic effect, and never READ MORE

Speed King: Tag Heuer Presents The Mikrogirder 2000, The World Fastest Chronograph

A chronograph is basically a very simple device: it’s a combination of a wristwatch and a stopwatch. Able to tell time as well as measure elapsed time, it’s one of the most useful in daily life of all watchmaking’s complications, whether you’re timing a three minute egg or, as Apollo 13’s crew did, using one to time course correction engine burns to guide a crippled spacecraft home (the crew was forced to use their Omega Speedmaster wristwatches as all electrical power to their cabin instruments had been cut to conserve battery power.) READ MORE

Space Continuum: M.C. Escher And The Vacheron Constantin “Les Univers Infinis” Watches

The remarkable work of Dutch artist M. C. Escher has been a subject of fascination for art lovers and mathematicians alike for many decades. (One of the most intriguing results of his work is the enormous Pulitzer Prize winning book by Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, a Pulitzer Prize winning magnum opus that interrelates Escher’s work with Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, and with J. S. Bach’s fugues, all of which are self-referential in structure.) READ MORE

THE RIGHT STUFF: THE BREMONT ALT1-WT

There are any number of pilot’s watches being made around the world. Far fewer are those that are actually made by pilots, for pilots. In this latter, very small category, is the English company known as Bremont, which was started in 2007 by two English brothers named, conveniently enough, Nick and Giles English. READ MORE