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• WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020 : Vacheron Constantin Fiftysix® Sepia

  By horologium on May 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Two years after the collection’s launch, and after the Fiftysix® ventured into petrol blue at last year’s SIHH, this year sees another colour being added to mix – a dark brown duo in 40mm-sized 18 kt 5N pink gold cases… Read More ›

• INDUSTRY NEWS : Baselworld 2020 update

  By horologium on May 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In the latest news regarding the beleaguered Baselworld, organisers the MCH Group have issued the following press release : Baselworld: agreement with exhibitors and examination of new platforms The MCH Group and representatives of the exhibitors at Baselworld have reached… Read More ›

• NEW : Breguet Reine de Naples 8918 Grand Feu Enamel Dial

  By horologium on May 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Breguet’s women’s watches do incredibly well, and the collection that dominates the 21st century image of their female-oriented pieces are those named for and inspired by, Caroline Murat, amongst whose titles were the Reine de Naples. These ovoid-shaped cases have… Read More ›

• NEW : DB28XP – De Bethune marks a decade of the DB28

  By horologium on May 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  This year De Bethune is marking ten years since the launch of the first DB28 with three new pieces that are, as they say, familiar but different – the DB28XP, the DB28XP Starry Sky, and the DB28XP Tourbillon. What is… Read More ›

• NEW : URWERK UR-100 Gold Edition and COVID-19 auction

  By horologium on May 4, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  For all the brand’s extrovert designs and characteristics, brightness of case material, although not alien to them, is also not one’s first thought when thinking about URWERK. Of this new limited edition (twenty-five pieces) UR-100 Gold Edition, released on the… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020 : new dials for the Hermès Arceau L’Heure de la Lune

  By horologium on May 3, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Last year at the SIHH 2019 Hermès released the Arceau L’heure de la Lune, a double moon display that featured a display of moon phases in both Northern and Southern Hemispheres. With two mobile lacquered white dials above a meteorite… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020 : Roger Dubuis Excalibur ‘Diabolus in Machina’

  By horologium on May 2, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  It is always an interesting experience visiting Roger Dubuis at the pka SIHH now Watches & Wonders Geneva, and with this year’s having been purely digital in form, it’s even more of a shame that we did not have the… Read More ›

• NEW : Zenith Chronomaster Revival ‘Shadow’

  By horologium on May 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Watch brands love an ‘origin story’, and if you can combine one with a famous movement and words like ‘prototype’ and variations on the theme of ‘found in a dusty box in the corner of a hidden room discovered when… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020 : Montblanc 1858 Monopusher Chronograph & 24H

  By horologium on May 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  There has been an interesting level of confidence about direction from Montblanc in recent years. It has been as though they decided on some clear collection identities and are settling in to steadily expand each of these. The vintage-inspired 1858… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020 : Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Concept

  By horologium on April 30, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Well they did it. At the SIHH 2018, along with the Altiplano Ultimate Automatic 910P, Piaget unveiled the Altiplano Ultimate Concept, the thinnest mechanical watch in the world. The big question was, of course, whether it would just remain just… Read More ›