Author Archives

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Richemont announces new board member

  By horologium on August 15, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Richemont has announced the nomination of Wendy Luhabe for election to the board. She will serve as a non-executive director and become a member of the board’s nominations committee. Luhabe was chair of Vendôme South Africa, Richemont’s subsidiary, from 2001… Read More ›

• NEW: Oris Hangang Limited Edition

  By horologium on August 13, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In recent years Oris has partnered with a number of environment-related organisations, creating limited editions of their Aquis divers watch to mark these relationships. In 2020, the first was the Lake Baikal, based on the 43.5mm Aquis Date and with… Read More ›

• NEW: Moritz Grossmann BACKPAGE Transparent

  By horologium on August 11, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Moritz Grossmann have taken the obvious step and turned the dial of their BACKPAGE model, which is centred around the manually-wound Calibre 107.0 on the dial side, transparent, so as to highlight the feature after which it is named. With… Read More ›

• NEW: Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Mokarran LE

  By horologium on August 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  So if the green of firs wasn’t quite the green for you, and you had also been looking for something less dressy and with a ‘social’ component as well, this may tick your boxes. Blancpain has released the new fifty… Read More ›

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Swiss watch exports for June 2020

  By horologium on August 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  After the expected dramatic falls in May 2020, the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry (FH) reported that watch exports continued to fall sharply in June, with the value falling 35.1 per cent compared to June 2019, to CHF 1.1… Read More ›

• NEW: Glashütte Original PanoMaticLunar Forest Green

  By horologium on August 5, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  So you may have been wondering if it’s just you or if there have been a lot of blue dials this year (there have been) and feeling in need of some other colour options. Well green might be more your… Read More ›

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Results of MCH Group Extraordinary General Meeting

  By horologium on August 4, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Last month we reported that James Murdoch, through his investment firm Lupa Systems LLC, had been talks to take a 30-44% stake in the MCH Group and become an “anchor shareholder”. An Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) was announced for August… Read More ›

• NEW: Audemars Piguet adds smoked dials and bi-metal cases to CODE 11.59

  By horologium on August 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  However you felt about them, and they generated some strong views, one of last year’s most talked-about releases was that of the CODE 11.59 pieces from Audemars Piguet. It was made clear that this was not to be a one-off,… Read More ›

• NEW: Laurent Ferrier Classic Origin Opaline

  By horologium on July 30, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  Laurent Ferrier is marking a decade with the launch of the Classic Origin Opaline, its first piece in a titanium. The new Classic Origin Opaline features the same pebble-inspired case design of the Galet (although if you look at their… Read More ›

• NEW: Longines Avigation Watch Type A-7 1935

  By horologium on July 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The recent history of Longines’ Avigation watches is not unknown here, nor in fact is the model name of Avigation Type-A 1935 an unfamiliar one. Like the Avigation Type-A 1935 that we covered in 2016, the 2020 variant is in… Read More ›