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• NEW: Frederique Constant Highlife Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar Manufacture LE

  By horologium on October 12, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Frederique Constant has announced a new model to their Highlife collection, combining a perpetual calendar and a tourbillon. If this sounds vaguely familiar, it is because this combination has been done by them before. In 2018 they launched a Perpetual… Read More ›

• NEW: Angelus U53 Tourbillon Volant

  By horologium on October 9, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Angelus has just added the new limited edition Angelus U553 Tourbillon Volant to its Urban Collection. A skeletonised dive watch with a tourbillon, it is not their only diver tourbillon (U50 Diver Tourbillon and U53 Diver Tourbillon) but, at 46mm,… Read More ›

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Watches and Wonders Geneva 2022

  By horologium on October 7, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Watches & Wonders Geneva have announced an in-person fair for 2022 that will also be a digital fair, as was the case for the pandemic-affected 2020 and 2021 editions. It will be held from 30 March to April 5, 2022,… Read More ›

• NEW: Ulysse Nardin Marine Mega Yacht Rose Gold

  By horologium on October 5, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  A couple of years ago we went hands-on with the limited edition Pt-cased Marine Mega Yacht from Ulysse Nardin, a tidal indication timepiece that was a follow-up of the Marine Grand Deck Tourbillon of 2016. It featured a propeller-decorated one-minute… Read More ›

• NEW: Louis Erard Excellence Régulateur Aventurine, Lapis-Lazuli, and Malachite

  By horologium on September 30, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Louis Erard have chosen their Le Régulateur model as the canvas for a limited edition series of three watches with dials made from stones and mineral glass. Using Aventurine, Lapis-Lazuli, and Malachite, each variant is in a limited edition of… Read More ›

• NEW: MeisterSinger Perigraph Edition Planet Earth (with the WWF)

  By horologium on September 28, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  MeisterSinger has launched their new Perigraph Edition Planet Earth, a collaboration with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), with part of the proceeds going to the organisation. Based on the Perigraph model, the Edition Planet Earth has the needle… Read More ›

• NEW: Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater

  By horologium on September 25, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  So you’ve booked a Reverso tour at the Manufacture and want to splurge on an uber Reverso to mark the model’s birthday celebrations. Well Jaeger-LeCoultre have announced a new limited edition (ten pieces) Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater. The Reverso Tribute… Read More ›

• NEW: Vacheron Constantin Overseas “Everest” Limited Edition

  By horologium on September 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In 2019 explorer and National Geographic photographer Cory Richards wore a prototype Vacheron Constantin Overseas Dual Time during his (third) Everest expedition, with Esteban “Topo” Mena, via the North-East ridge. The watch was subsequently auctioned by Phillips, realising USD106,250, and… Read More ›

• NEW: Laurent Ferrier Square Micro-Rotor Retro

  By horologium on September 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Laurent Ferrier have decided to go back almost a century, with a new Art Deco-inspired dial on their Square Micro-Rotor model. It is not without justification to say that the cushion-shaped case is already, in and of itself, simpatico with… Read More ›

• NEW: MIH Gaïa II Black Dial

  By horologium on September 17, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  As pondered in our ‘hands-on’ post about the MIH Gaïa, the Musée International d’Horlogerie (MIH) has announced a new colour variant, also in a limited edition. In 2019 the MIH announced its second timepiece called Gaïa, fourteen years after the… Read More ›