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• CARTIER : Crash Skeleton Platinum

  By horologium on May 14, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  I remember when I first learned about the history of the Crash. It was during an event at the Cartier Sydney boutique and there was a discussion between a guest and Benjamin (then) of Cartier Australia, who even brought out… Read More ›

• JAEGER-LECOULTRE : Master Grande Tradition à Répétition Minutes

  By horologium on May 12, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Jaeger-LeCoultre recently launched a new pink gold 39mm Minute Repeater for which we had the opportunity to see the (then embargoed) prototype during SIHH 2015. An addtion to the Master Grande Tradition line, the Master Grande Tradition à Répétition Minutes… Read More ›

• NEWS : Wearable tech x Horology

  By horologium on May 8, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Within any group there will be its own language, its own slang, patois, words that become signifiers of belonging to it. Sometimes, terms are appropriated from other groups and joined, re-imagined or re-invented to mean something else. There is always… Read More ›

• CARTIER : the Astrotroubillon, now skeletonised

  By horologium on May 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  This year Cartier has introduced an attractive new skeletonised version of their Astrotourbillon using the Calibre MC 9461, which is an skeletonised version of the caliber MC 9451. This ‘squelette’ model features a tourbillon cage that circles the dial once… Read More ›

• PARMIGIANI FLEURIER & LALIQUE : Le Jour et La Nuit project

  By horologium on May 5, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Today’s post is not about watches but about clocks – the Le Jour et La Nuit clock project of Parmigiani Fleurier and Lalique. Based on René Lalique’s original Le Jour et la Nuit table clock of 1926 which depicts a… Read More ›

• GREUBEL FORSEY : Tourbillon 24 Secondes Vision

  By horologium on May 1, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Commemorating its 10th anniversary this year, Greubel Forsey presented a few new watches at SIHH 2015 of which two stood out – the Tourbillon 24 Secondes Vision that is the subject of this post, and the Philippe Dufour collaboration (by… Read More ›

• INTERVIEW : Sylvie Deschamps

  By horologium on April 29, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The name of Sylvie Deschamp may not be familiar to you, but you may nonetheless have seen photos of her work with Piaget, with whom she started collaborating in 2012. An embroiderer of note in her native France, she harks… Read More ›

• BASELWORLD 2015 : Graff MasterGraff Structural Tourbillon Skeletonised

  By horologium on April 26, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Amongst the renowned jeweller Graff’s watch offerings for men this year was a rather interesting take on their MasterGraff tourbillons, which have previously appeared in a skeletonised and ‘regular’ versions of the same case shape. Movement is the ‘proprietary’ (their… Read More ›

• IWC : Portugieser history book now online

  By horologium on April 22, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  As you all know 2015 is IWC’s year of the Portugieser, with a new collection having been launched at SIHH 2015 that included an Annual Calendar (their first) pictured above containing a new movement, the Cal.52850, which is shown below. As… Read More ›

• BASELWORLD 2015 : Laurent Ferrier Galet Square

  By horologium on April 20, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Unveiled in 2010, ‘Galet’ is the name of Laurent Ferrier’s first collection. This year at Baselworld they introduced a new shape to the line. But firstly, for those who are unfamiliar with the brand – who and what is it?… Read More ›