At the SIHH 2018 Audemars Piguet showed off the RD#2, their second Concept watch. A prototype with a thickness of 6.30mm, it became the new record holder for the thinnest automatic perpetual calendar wristwatc. This was in large part thanks… Read More ›
The 72nd Festival de Cannes, aka the Cannes International Film Festival, has just finished. Chopard, an official partner of the film festival since 1998, is the brand which more than any other, is featured adorning attendees and nominees. To mark… Read More ›
To mark two decades since the commercial launch of their Spring Drive movement (a limited edition Credor in 1999) this year Seiko have announced a mini collection of new watches under the Elegance Collection called the Grand Seiko Spring Drive… Read More ›
If you are looking for a calendar watch in 2018, Vacheron Constantin are making sure that they have yo covered. Hot on the heels of the announcement of the Historiques Triple Calendrier 1942 and Triple Calendrier 1948, which we covered… Read More ›
Dresden watchmakers Lang & Heyne basically quietly do their own thing, creating a scant few dozen watches a year in a small number of models. You may recall an earlier post on Horologium about a special Friedrich III. Well today,… Read More ›
In recent years Greubel Forsey has been characterised by a very public desire to nurture the preservation and continuation of watchmaking skills, first manifested in the form of the Naissance watch (more formally called ‘Le Garde Temps – Naissance d’une… Read More ›
In 1958 Jaeger-LeCoultre commemorated the International Geophysical Year by creating a robust utilitarian watch that was protected against magnetic fields (600 gauss), shock and water resistant, and extremely accurate. Fitted with Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 478b, the Geophysic chronometer was presented to… Read More ›
One of the most popular of the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak manifestations, whose size was increased from 39mm to 41mm in 2012, the Royal Oak Chronograph 41mm has been refreshed for 2017. The basics have been kept the same, but… Read More ›
This year A. Lange & Söhne’s key piece for SIHH, and the one whose form took the traditional larger-than-life manifestation at the front of the booth, was their newest addition to their “Pour le Mérite” line, a new grande complication… Read More ›
It may be now owned by Gemfields, but the Fabergé name still has a strong brand recognition based on its founder and history. Eggs, objet d’art and jewellery may be what they have been most famed for, but Fabergé have… Read More ›
