It has been a good year. Well, in watchmaking terms at least. Retro has been the name of the game for the majority of the last 12 months, with brands aplenty wheeling out some seriously cool archival pieces and vintage-inspired newbies to their collections that would have suited the 1960s nicely.
That’s led perfectly into the last few months, where 1970s sports luxe a la Gerald Genta – creator of the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak – has been in the spotlight, with some unexpected marques taking part in the elegantly industrial zeitgeist.
Despite there being a vast number of releases,