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• NEW: Girard-Perregaux Casquette 2.0 Saint Laurent 02

  By horologium on July 10, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  In 2022 Girard-Perregaux revived their famed Casquette, with necessary movement updates, a black ceramic and grade 5 titanium case, and a new name, the Casquette 2.0. The original 1970s model only numbered 8,200 in total watches produced, and the Casquette… Read More ›

• NEW: Louis Erard Le Régulateur Grand Feu Enamel

  By horologium on July 8, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Louis Erard has launched a new Le Régulateur model featuring, for the first time in this collection family, a grand feu enamel dial. Coming in a 39mm sized polished stainless-steel case with 50m water resistance, the enamel dial is made… Read More ›

• NEW: Breguet Classique Double Tourbillon Quai de l’Horloge 5345 Rose Gold

  By horologium on July 4, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  In 2020 Breguet launched their open-worked Classique Double Tourbillon Quai De l’Horloge 5345. Named for the street in Paris on which Breguet’s original workshop was situated, it was a platinum watch with a double tourbillon with both wheel trains and… Read More ›

• NEW: Ressence TYPE 5 L

  By horologium on July 2, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘L’ is for lume and yes the micro trend continues, with Ressence’s latest addition to its TYPE 5 collection, the new TYPE 5 L, featuring a Super-LumiNova® inlay to illuminate its entire dial This new piece comes in a 46mm… Read More ›

• NEW: Arnold & Son Double Tourbillon White Gold, Amber Edition

  By horologium on June 30, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Arnold & Son have expanded their use of stones on dials with the new Double Tourbillon White Gold Amber, which follows their use of jade, malachite and aventurine. We’re all familiar with amber being orange, but Arnold & Son have… Read More ›

• NEW: Audemars Piguet’s new Polychrome Gold

  By horologium on June 28, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  We’re continuing with the ‘new materials’ theme, with Audemars Piguet’s announcement of a new patented material called ‘chroma gold’, with a camouflage pattern. This follows the brand’s announcement earlier this year of polychrome ceramic, a multi-coloured ceramic, with both created… Read More ›

• UPDATE: Hautlence Retrovision ’47

  By horologium on June 25, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  In an announcement that is not a surprise to those who saw Hautlence’s Retrovision ’47 at Watches & Wonders Geneva 2024 and spoke to them about it afterwards, especially given the huge number of unofficial expressions of interest expressed in… Read More ›

• NEW: Officine Panerai Submersible Elux LAB-ID

  By horologium on June 24, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  You may have thought that could not possibly be another luminosity-related release for at least a little while, but you would be mistaken. Officine Panerai has introduced the limited edition Submersible Elux LAB-ID PAM01800, a self-illuminating dive watch with a… Read More ›

• HANDS-ON: Chopard L.U.C Qualité Fleurier Lucent Steel™

  By horologium on June 21, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Chopard has expanded its L.U.C Qualité Fleurier collection with a new model in a case made from their proprietary Lucent Steel™ alloy that features a minimum of 80% recycled material, the first appearance of this material in the collection family…. Read More ›

• HANDS-ON: GENUS GN2

  By horologium on June 18, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  A couple of months ago we wrote about the launch of the new GENUS GNS2, which uses the brand’s signature time display complication, but in a different way, simplifying the ‘snaking’ time-telling genera, and enclosing it in a newly semi-open… Read More ›