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• 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 ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020: A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk Minute Repeater White Gold

  By horologium on April 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Although launched by A. Lange & Söhne five years ago, the Zeitwerk Minute Repeater, the first wristwatch that combined a mechanical jump hour with a decimal repeater, more than retains its originality and achievement. Now, as a follow up to… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020: Baume & Mercier’s new Baumatic small complications

  By horologium on April 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  At the SIHH 2018 Baume & Mercier launched a surprise in the form of the Baumatic Chronometer, a handsome back-to-basics dress watch powered by the brand’s first manufacture movement, featuring a 5 day power reserve, COSC certification, and anti-magnetic up… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020: IWC Portugieser Automatic 40 (Ref. 3583)

  By horologium on April 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Sometimes, it is the simple watches that can get a lot of people excited. Amidst the many new releases in IWC’s year of the ‘Port’ is the new Portugieser Automatic 40 – the revisiting of a much loved classic with… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020: Vacheron Constantin “La Musique du Temps®” Les Cabinotiers – the singing birds

  By horologium on April 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Over the past couple of months there has been widespread coverage of how the natural world has (re) emerged as humans have retreated indoors, whether it be in the form of flora, fauna, or the sight of stars or mountain… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020: Laurent Ferrier Grand Sport Tourbillon

  By horologium on April 26, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Last year Laurent Ferrier, a brand best known for an at times creative take on classical watches and the quality of its finishing, released their first luxury sports watch. The Grand Sport Tourbillon was released in 2019 for quite specific… Read More ›