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• INDUSTRY NEWS : Swatch Group to hold Zurich fair during Baselworld 2019

  By horologium on December 21, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Hot on the heels of the announcement by the SIHH and Baselworld fairs that they will co-ordinate their fairs for the period of 2020 – 2024 comes the news, reported by Reuters, that the Swatch Group, whose shock announcement that… Read More ›

• INDUSTRY NEWS : SIHH and Baselworld to co-ordinate dates for 2020 to 2024

  By horologium on December 19, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  In press releases from both fairs, the SIHH and Baselworld watch industry fairs have announced something familiar to times past – that their fairs will be held consecutively, commencing in 2020 and for the subsequent fairs until 2024. SIHH 2020… Read More ›

• NEW : G-SHOCK x Transformers

  By horologium on November 22, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  On the 35th birthday of both the G-SHOCK and the Transformers, Casio and toymaker Takara Tomy have joined forces for a special item – an Optimus Prime figure with a G-SHOCK Matrix of Leadership chest piece. Optimus Prime is the… Read More ›

• NEW : Laine GG

  By horologium on November 21, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Finnish Le Locle-based watchmaker Torsti Laine, whose 1817 we covered last year, has launched a new model called the GG, the letters standing for ‘Gelidus/ Guilloché’, and marking the first appearance of this type of decorative work to his watches…. Read More ›

• NEWS : Corum’s new Heritage Lab line

  By horologium on November 19, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Best known for their technically groundbreaking Golden Bridge and popular Bubble collections, last week Corum launched a new ‘Heritage Lab’ collection at their opening of a new Beijing boutique, with the two inaugural Heritage Lab 01 models limited to ninety-nine… Read More ›

• NEW : Hublot’s Big Bang MECA-10 P2P Bitcoin watch

  By horologium on November 13, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Hublot has joined the Bitcoin watch mini trend, with the launch of the new limited edition Big Bang Meca-10 P2P to mark a decade since the crypto currency’s birth. The Big Bang Meca-10 P2P is a limited edition of 210,… Read More ›

• INDUSTRY NEWS : Richemont and Alibaba announce partnership

  By horologium on November 12, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  As a part of their continuing efforts to expand into the mainland Chinese online market, Richemont has joined forces with Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba to develop its Net-A-Porter and Mr Porter online platforms in China. The joint venture will feature… Read More ›

• NEW : Seiko Prospex Street Series

  By horologium on November 8, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The popular Seiko ‘Tuna’ and ‘Baby Tuna’ watches aren’t ones that tend to make an appearance on Horologium, but as the temperature starts hitting above 30C here, the hot weather means that on weekends, my thoughts turn to resuming the… Read More ›

• NEW : Bremont Supersonic – own a piece of the Concorde

  By horologium on November 5, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  In 2003, after having captured the imaginations of avgeeks and plane travellers in search of shorter flights everywhere since its first service flight in 1976, the supersonic Concorde was retired from service, having captured public imagination in a way that… Read More ›

• NEW : A. Lange & Söhne Datograph Up/ Down Lumen

  By horologium on November 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  In 2010 A. Lange & Söhne launched the Zeitwerk ‘Luminous’, the first of what would become the ‘Lumen’ series, followed by the Grand Lange 1 ‘Lumen’ in 2013, and the Grand Lange 1 Moon Phase ‘Lumen’ in 2016, all of… Read More ›