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• NEW: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin Greater China Limited Edition

  By horologium on December 6, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

    Let’s move from a lot of ‘old gold’ to a lot of ‘new gold’, with Audemars Piguet’s new Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin Greater China Limited Edition. The ultra-thin 41mm RD#2 was launched in platinum as a concept in… Read More ›

• INDUSTRY NEWS: new CEOs for Jaeger-LeCoultre and Vacheron Constantin

  By horologium on December 4, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  The Richemont Group has made two appointment announcements, with the most notable being the return of Jérôme Lambert as CEO of Jaeger-LeCoultre, effective 1 January, 2025. Having now come full circle, his latest move within the Group follows a career… Read More ›

• EXHIBITION: Wallace Collection display five Boulle clocks from reign of Louis XIV

  By horologium on December 3, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  The planning involved in the Science Museum’s ‘Versailles: Science and Splendour’ exhibition, which looks at the evolution of science at the Palace of Versailles through the reigns of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI through over 100 objects of… Read More ›

• NEW: Moritz Grossmann ENAMEL ROMAN Vintage Limited Edition

  By horologium on December 2, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  They are not a dial feature one sees much anymore, even though in their twenty-first century manifestations, as opposed to their ones of almost a century ago, there was a time when there was the occasional ‘red 12’ dial as… Read More ›

• NEW: Ressence TYPE 8 Indigo limited edition

  By horologium on November 29, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Even if you’ve never been to Tokyo, if you are even remotely interested in watches, you will have heard of retailer Shellman. Even if you have not, retailer editions from watch brands are a long-time part of the industry and… Read More ›

• EXHIBITION: Breguet No. 160 ‘Marie Antoinette’ to go on display in London

  By horologium on November 27, 2024 • ( 1 )

  

  If you are reading this then it is likely that you know of Abraham-Louis Breguet’s pocket watch No. 160 Grande Complication aka the ‘Marie Antoinette’ and its place within the annals of watchmaking. From the watchmaker whose pocket watches made… Read More ›

• NEW: Panerai Luminor Quaranta Carbotech™

  By horologium on November 25, 2024 • ( 2 )

  

  Officine Panerai recently launched a new addition to their Quaranta family – the Luminor Quaranta Carbotech PAM01526 features the first use of the brand’s proprietary Carbotech™ composite material in this model. It is also the first Luminor Quaranta model with… Read More ›

• NEW: Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Chronograph Rose Gold

  By horologium on November 21, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Following last year’s launch of the Reverso Tribute Chronograph in stainless steel and 18k rose gold, Jaeger-LeCoultre has gone ‘full gold’, with a new variant in an 18k rose gold version with a solid 18kt rose gold dial, movement bridges,… Read More ›

• NEW: Moritz Grossmann 37 Arabic Vintage

  By horologium on November 17, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Today is about another new (and similarly coloured, which extends even to the strap) vintage-inspired watch, with the launch of the new Moritz Grossman 37 Arabic Vintage, which joins the brand’s Benu collection. The case, in brushed stainless steel with… Read More ›

• NEW: Louis Erard Le Régulateur Gravé Noir

  By horologium on November 13, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Louis Erard’s new Le Régulateur Gravé Noir is a vintage-inspired variation of the brand’s regulator/ Régulateur model, which has previously extended to some of its collaborative pieces. The Le Régulateur is proving to be a versatile base on which the… Read More ›