In the run-up to Baselworld brands will often issue pre-releases of new watches, before an official Baselworld launch. Today’s offering from Zenith is one such watch, a piece that I had the opportunity to look at in Geneva in January…. Read More ›
Switzerland
HANDS-ON : Romain Jerome Tattoo-DNA Collection
One of the downsides of being in Australia is that if you receive an email inviting you to a watch launch, the chances are that it is going to be in Europe. Given the absence of a personal jet or… Read More ›
SIHH 2014 : CARTIER Rotonde de Cartier Astrocalendaire
Cartier likes to create show stopping haute horlogerie pieces, and headlining this year’s offerings at SIHH 2014 was a perpetual calendar tourbillon known as the ‘Astrocalendaire’. Housing a variant of the in-house automatic Calibre 9459 MC, this complication comes in… Read More ›
NEWS : MB&F Performance Art Piece collaboration with Xia Hang
MB&F have just announced their latest ‘Art Piece’ – a collaboration with Chinese artist Xia Hang (about whom you can read more at the M.A.D. Gallery website), some of whose thoughtful whimsical sculptures featuring an E.T.-like creature can be viewed… Read More ›
SWISS WATCH EXPORTS : 2013
The Federation of the Swiss watch industry has reported good results for 2013, with exports at a record 21.8 billion CHF, a 1.9% increase (approx 400 million CHF) on 2012’s figures. The second half of 2012 (+3.0%) showed a greater… Read More ›
SIHH 2014 : BAUME & MERCIER Clifton Retrograde Date
The emphasis throughout the Baume et Mercier presentation at SIHH 2014 was on ‘affordable luxury’, with ‘quality’ and ‘price’ being keywords. With this in mind, amongst the new additions to the Clifton line announced by Baume et Mercier at SIHH… Read More ›
DE BETHUNE : Dream Watch 5
During ‘Geneva week’ before the start of SIHH 2014 we visited a couple of brands, of which De Bethune was the first. As it was also the brand that I first visited during my inaugural ‘Geneva week’ in 2013 it… Read More ›
SIHH 2014 : Piaget’s new record-breaking Altiplano 900P
At SIHH 2013 there was a small ‘thinnest’ battle going on but of course, Piaget’s relentless drive to maintain their position at the top of the ‘ultra thin’ watch pecking order is always a given, and at SIHH 2014 it… Read More ›
SIHH 2014 : A.LANGE & SÖHNE Richard Lange Perpetual Calendar ‘Terraluna’
This year the Lange booth at SIHH 2014 was dominated by another outsized watch, fit for a particularly large Ent, if Ents had wrists, wore watches and were the slightest bit interested in perpetual calendars. With its own display area… Read More ›
SIHH 2014 : VAN CLEEF & ARPELS’ Pierre Arpels Heure d’ici & Heure d’ailleurs
For me, at my second SIHH and still very much a ‘newbie’ fair wise, an unexpected watch, especially when part of a polished and engaging press presentation, still has the ability to make me forget about the crowds and occasionally… Read More ›
HOROLOGIUM 