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• NEW: Cartier Métiers D’art Ronde Louis Cartier Straw and Gold Marquetry & Enamel Filigree

  By horologium on June 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  This year, Cartier has released two new limited edition Métiers d’Art watches featuring the arts of marquetry, enamelling, miniature painting, and gem-setting to highlight its ‘house mascot’, the panthère. Meet the new Ronde Louis Cartier Straw and Gold Marquetry, and… Read More ›

• NEW: Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Memovox Timer

  By horologium on June 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Since Jaeger-LeCoultre’s launch of the first Memovox alarm watch in 1950 with what has become an immediately recognisable dial consisting of concentric rings and a triangular marker for the alarm, it has become an important part of the brand’s modern… Read More ›

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Frédéric Arnault to become new TAG Heuer CEO

  By horologium on June 5, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The LVMH group has announced the appointment of Frédéric Arnault as the new CEO of TAG Heuer, effective 1 July, 2020. He will take over from Stéphane Bianchi, who will become head of LVMH’s new Watch and Jewellery Division that… Read More ›

• NEW: MB&F and H.Moser & Cie collaboration

  By horologium on June 4, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  An unexpected partnership between two very different brands and a decade long relationship between Edouard Meylan and Maximilian Büsser have lead to MB&F putting a new spin on the ‘friends’ of the ‘F’, and H.Moser & Cie putting their distinctive… Read More ›

• NEW: IWC Portugieser Tourbillon Retrograde Chronograph

  By horologium on June 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Along with the simplicity of the new Portugieser Automatic launched by IWC this ‘year of the Port’, at the other end of the spectrum is a multi-complication – the new Portugieser Tourbillon Retrograde Chronograph. This is along a similar thematic… Read More ›

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Geneva Watch Days update

  By horologium on May 31, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Launched in March 2020 as a response to the cancellation of this year’s major watch fairs, the Geneva Watch Days event, which had been postponed to August, has announced that they still plan to hold the event at this time… Read More ›

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Swiss watch exports for April 2020

  By horologium on May 30, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Last month we reported on the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH’s report on Swiss watch exports for the month of March 2020. It showed a fall, but the expectation was that April’s results would be considerably worse, due… Read More ›

• NEW: Panerai Luminor Marina Fibratech PAM01663

  By horologium on May 29, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  In an earlier post about Officine Panerai’s commemoration of 70 years of the Luminor, I mentioned a new composite material making its debut – Fibratech™ , a basalt-fibre composite created to be light (it is 70% lighter than steel and… Read More ›

• EPHEMERA: Does ’12 p.m.’ exist?

  By horologium on May 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  As the writer of the article “Does ’12pm’ exist? We could argue about it until the end of time” points out, complaints to Australia’s national broadcaster about language tend to fall along well worn paths about the (d)evolution of the… Read More ›

• HANDS-ON: Zenith Elite Moonphase

  By horologium on May 25, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Sometimes a watch surprises you when you finally see it – today is about one of those watches. Earlier this year Zenith released a number of new pieces, of which one was this Elite Moonphase in rose gold, as part… Read More ›