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• BASELWORLD 2014 : Omega teaser video

  By horologium on March 26, 2014 • ( 0 )

  A week or so ago Omega sent out a darkened photo via Facebook, setting Omega fans in particular into a photoshopping frenzy. Well photoshop no more, as they have released this video teaser. On the basis of this video, in… Read More ›

• NEWS : Hublot 2014 FIFA World Cup Big Bang Unico Bi-Retrograde Chrono

  By horologium on March 25, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  What’s a sporting event without an official watch? Hublot have just announced the official watch of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. It’s a chronograph, but bi-retrograde (a first for the brand) and, being designed for football, has an… Read More ›

• NEWS : Oris Artelier Jumping Hour

  By horologium on March 21, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Oris have announced a new addition to the Artelier collection, to be formally launched at Baselworld 2014, and featuring their first jump hour watch. Regular readers of Horologium will know that I have a particular fondness for jumping hours, and… Read More ›

• HANDS-ON : the new Breva Génie 02 Terre

  By horologium on March 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the most intriguing watch launches in 2013 was surely that of the brand of Breva with its Genie 01, the world’s first mechanical wristwatch showing not just the time, but acting as a portable mechanical weather station, with… Read More ›

• HANDS-ON : Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Master Compressor Chronograph Ceramic

  By horologium on March 16, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  With the plethora of dress watches announced by Jaeger-LeCoultre at SIHH 2014, a new limited edition sports watch was almost missed by some, but for  fans of all-black ceramic pieces, and of chronographs, there was something of interest. The new… Read More ›

• CARTIER : Birds of a Feather

  By horologium on March 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Having mused about starting with a series of avian pun for this post, I have decided to restrain myself and let today’s two new Cartier Metier d’Art pieces speak for themselves. There is certainly a lot to crow about here…. Read More ›

• PRE-BASEL 2014 : Zenith’s Pilot Montre d’Aéronef Type 20 GMT 1903

  By horologium on March 9, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  In the run-up to Baselworld brands will often issue pre-releases of new watches, before an official Baselworld launch. Today’s offering from Zenith is one such watch, a piece that I had the opportunity to look at in Geneva in January…. Read More ›

• HANDS-ON : Romain Jerome Tattoo-DNA Collection

  By horologium on March 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the downsides of being in Australia is that if you receive an email inviting you to a watch launch, the chances are that it is going to be in Europe. Given the absence of a personal jet or… Read More ›

• SIHH 2014 : CARTIER Rotonde de Cartier Astrocalendaire

  By horologium on March 3, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Cartier likes to create show stopping haute horlogerie pieces, and headlining this year’s offerings at SIHH 2014 was a perpetual calendar tourbillon known as the ‘Astrocalendaire’. Housing a variant of the in-house automatic Calibre 9459 MC, this complication comes in… Read More ›

• NEWS : MB&F Performance Art Piece collaboration with Xia Hang

  By horologium on February 28, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  MB&F have just announced their latest ‘Art Piece’ – a collaboration with Chinese artist Xia Hang (about whom you can read more at the M.A.D. Gallery website), some of whose thoughtful whimsical sculptures featuring an E.T.-like creature can be viewed… Read More ›