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• NEWS : Watch brands crack down on smartwatch face designs

  By horologium on November 26, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  A couple of years ago Apple got into trademark trouble with Swiss railway operator SBB for an iPad clock that looked rather too similar to their design, one which most of us know through Mondaine watches. Well it seems that… Read More ›

• INTERVIEW : Mr. Daniel Riedo, Jaeger-LeCoultre CEO

  By horologium on November 20, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  On the eve of Watches & Wonders 2014 Jaeger-LeCoultre CEO Mr. Daniel Riedo came to Australia for the first time, visiting Melbourne and Sydney on a short and busy trip which also saw him giving Sydney dinner guests the privilege of… Read More ›

• AUCTION NEWS : Historic Breguet pieces return ‘home’

  By horologium on November 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  If you like watches and are in Paris, a visit to the Breguet Museum which forms part of the boutique at Place Vendôme is pretty much a given. When I visited it a few years ago, unfortunately they were mid-change… Read More ›

• JAEGER LE-COULTRE : Master Grand Tourbillon Enamel ‘Crane’

  By horologium on November 15, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Today’s watch is one example of a series of enamel-dialed avian-themed Master Grand Tourbillon models that have been made by Jaeger-LeCoultre. Two of them feature cranes; this one, featuring a red-crowned crane, is one of them. What these bird watches… Read More ›

• AUCTION UPDATE : Graves Supercomplication sells for 23.2 million CHF

  By horologium on November 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  In an update to yesterday’s post about the sale of the Graves Supercomplication, earlier today Geneva time the Patek Phillipe Supercomplication pocket watch sold for CHF 23,237,000 (USD23,983,140) at Sothebys, setting a new record for a timepiece sold at auction… Read More ›

• AUCTION NEWS : owner of ‘Graves Complication’ dies two days before its auction

  By horologium on November 11, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Prominent Qatari art collector Sheikh Saud bin Mohammed Al-Thani of Qatar died suddenly at his home in London on November 9, 2014 from what is reported to be natural causes. Revealed in 2012 to be the owner of the Graves… Read More ›

• HANDS-ON : Piaget Limelight Blooming Rose

  By horologium on November 10, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  During SIHH 2014 Piaget may have launched the Altiplano 900P, but there was another equally personal-to-the-brand watch released in January that has just hit Australian shores, the Limelight Blooming Rose. As I covered at SIHH 2013 last year, Piaget’s jewellery… Read More ›

• VAN CLEEF & ARPELS : Lady Arpels Heures Filantes

  By horologium on November 8, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Some watch fair releases seem to garner more coverage than others, so today’s post is an introduction to a Watches & Wonders 2014 piece that may well have slipped under your radar, but which fits neatly within Van Cleef & Arpels’ unashamedly… Read More ›

• NEWS : MB&F HM6 Capitaine Flam and the ‘Space Pirate’

  By horologium on November 5, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Unlike many who revisit the cultural influences of their youth through the purchasing of collectibles that they either lost or perhaps were unable to obtain at the time due to a lack of pocket money, Max Busser has the enviable… Read More ›

• CARTIER : A new time for the Rotonde

  By horologium on November 3, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  At Watches & Wonders 2014 Cartier launched a whopping sixteen new novelties and two new movements, mostly additions to existing collection lines, and many of which were presented by Carole Forestier-Kasapi, Head of Fine Watchmaking. Today’s post is about one… Read More ›