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• NEW: H. Moser Endeavour Minute Repeater Tourbillon ‘Electric Blue’

  By horologium on January 15, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  You may recall the H.Moser & Cie Endeavour Concept Minute Repeater Tourbillon of 2019. Limited to ten pieces, it was a segue from the Watch Concept Black Minute Repeater in the Swis Alp case. Now, they have launched a new… Read More ›

• NEW: Ressence Type 1 Squared X

  By horologium on January 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Today is about a new piece that perhaps strictly speaking, should fall under the 2020 umbrella for two reasons. Firstly because it is the final tenth anniversary piece in Ressence’s Collection X; secondly because it is dominated by a colour… Read More ›

• INDUSTRY NEWS: new Montblanc watches managing director

  By horologium on January 11, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Richemont has announced the appointment of Laurent Lecamp to replace Davide Cerrato as managing director of Montblanc’s watch division. Cerrato, who lead the division for five years, is leaving the Richemont group. The new managing director was most recently a… Read More ›

• HANDS-ON: Zenith Chronomaster Revival A385

  By horologium on January 8, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  It may be two years since Zenith’s celebration of half a century of the El Primero, but they have continued to release homages and the like, including last year’s Chronomaster Revival ‘Shadow’ based on the A384 Revival. In 1969 three… Read More ›

• NEW: Louis Moinet Wonders of the World ‘Chichén Itzá Pyramid’

  By horologium on January 6, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Louis Moinet, creator of some of the more eye-catching watches around today, has announced a new pièce unique which will be the first in a series of eight pièces unique created to commemorate the brand’s new partnership status with the… Read More ›

• NEW: Marco Lang’s new brand and ‘Zweigesicht’

  By horologium on January 3, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  A new year deserves a new brand – in this case, that of Marco Lang, who left Lang & Heyne last year and is now a brand under his own name, still in Dresden. His first model is a limited… Read More ›

• HANDS-ON: Grand Seiko 60th Anniversary Caliber 9SA5 Hi-Beat 36000 80 Hours

  By horologium on December 30, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  As a year of tumult draws to a close it seems appropriate to look at a watch which radiates serenity – the Grand Seiko 60th Anniversary Calibre 9SA5 Hi-Beat 36,000 80 Hours. More succinctly known as the Ref. SLGH002, this… Read More ›

• NEW: Piaget Altiplano Limelight Stella Rose Gold

  By horologium on December 26, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  With each completion of a lunar year cycle watch brands bring out their animal-appropriate themed watches for the year to come. Piaget has been a part of this tradition and have an announced, for the incoming year of the Ox,… Read More ›

• NEW: Hautlence HL Sphere 02

  By horologium on December 23, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the most enjoyable watches I had the opportunity to handle in 2019 was the Hautlence HL Sphere 01. As mentioned, it was the HL Kinetic table clock brought to wrist size, displaying hours in a spherical ‘jumping hour’… Read More ›

• INDUSTRY NEWS: UNESCO recognises mechanical watchmaking and art

  By horologium on December 21, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The “craftsmanship of mechanical watchmaking and art mechanics” has been added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. In March 2019 Switzerland and France jointly submitted an application for… Read More ›