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• NEW : Ulysse Nardin New Executive Tourbillon Free Wheel LE : Osmium, Aventurine, Straw Marquetry, and Carbonium® Gold

  By horologium on September 16, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  In 2018 Ulysse Nardin Ulysse launched a new model called the Executive Tourbillon Free Wheel, featuring an eye-catching dial with parts of the movement (the tourbillon, power reserve, gear train, and barrel) floating above the dial’s surface. The use of… Read More ›

• NEW : URWERK UR-100 SpaceTime

  By horologium on September 13, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  I was reading Gary’s piece in Quill & Pad as I was writing this post about URWERK’s latest release. He mentions, amongst other things, the topic of patronage of independent brands for him as a collector, as well as their… Read More ›

• NEWS : Citizen partners with HAKUTO-R lunar exploration program

  By horologium on September 11, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Citizen Watch and private lunar exploration company ispace have announced a partnership for HAKUTO-R, the world’s first commercial lunar exploration program. Citizen’s role will be largely the application of its Super Titanium™ material (pure titanium processed using Citizen’s proprietary Duratect… Read More ›

• NEW : MING 17.06

  By horologium on September 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  In 2017 a group of six watch collectors banded together to start a brand called ‘MING’, named after Ming Thein, a well known watch collector and photographer, particularly in online watch fora. Perhaps an easy way to summarise this brand… Read More ›

• NEWS : Christie’s new five week online course on the history of watches

  By horologium on September 2, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The education arm of Christie’s are starting a new online course entitled ‘History of Watches: 1700 to Now’. A five week video-based programme, it will cover the development of watches from their first appearance in pocket form to today’s wristwatches…. Read More ›

• AUDEMARS PIGUET : Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar 41 White Ceramic

  By horologium on August 29, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  There seem to have been quite a few perpetual calendars released this year, and a number of them have featured 2019’s popular colour, blue. Today is about another to add to this bundle, but this time with a more modern… Read More ›

• SYDNEY : Breguet mean-time regulator clock

  By horologium on August 26, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  Today’s post is about something very local, a clock that has been in Sydney for a long time, but about which not everyone may be aware – a Breguet regulator clock that sits quietly right in the centre of the… Read More ›

• IWC : Ingenieur Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month Titanium

  By horologium on August 22, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Pilots’ watches may have been the focus for IWC this year, but that does mean that the other collection families have been ignored. Today we are talking about the Ingenieur Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month in titanium This model was originally… Read More ›

• NEW : Antoine Preziuso TTR3 Blue Equalizer Frequencies

  By horologium on August 20, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Last year, Geneva based watchmaer Antoine Preziuso presented the pièce unique ‘Trillion Tourbillon of Tourbillons’, a variant of his Tourbillon of Tourbillons originally launched in 2015. A ‘high jewellery’ riff on the original, the Trillion Tourbillon of Tourbillons featured three… Read More ›

• NEWS : Omega Museum re-opens in new Cité du Temps

  By horologium on August 16, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Without much fanfare, the re-located Omega Museum has opened in a new building aptly called the Cité du Temps in Biel/ Bienne. The new building is situated between Omega’s historic buildings and the new Swatch Headquarters. Designed by architect Shigeru… Read More ›