In this, the year of the Grande Maison’s 180th anniversary, Jaeger-LeCoultre’s SIHH 2013 presentation was focusing, naturally, on the Jubilee Collection, as well as proudly sharing the fact that they have 1242 calibres, use some forty odd types of crafts… Read More ›
As was evidenced from their SIHH booth, IWC’s theme was, alongside the launch of its new Ingenieur watches, the celebration of their new three year partnership with the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team. IWC know how to throw a… Read More ›
Panerai’s booth at SIHH 2013 was all about the Submersible, with three new models, and topped off by a dark ‘underwater’ display highlighting this. As for the rest, for me of particular note are the addition of a second Bronzo… Read More ›
Amongst Piaget’s offerings this year was an addition to their successful Altiplanos – a new 40mm case with a date display, 3mm smaller than their previous model and both more accessible to a larger number of people and, intentionally or… Read More ›
Not only did Cartier have the largest ‘booth’ (in fact an entire wing) at SIHH 2013, but they also had the largest number of models to present, both in terms of totally new novelties and variations on previous models. Despite… Read More ›
The Swatch Group has announced that in 2012 they exceeded their CHF 8 billion target by 14 per cent, with gross sales reaching CHF 8.143 billion. Operating profit increased to CHF 1. 98 billion, a rise of 22.9 per cent… Read More ›
I thought that I’d start my SIHH posts by giving those of you who have never been a ‘feel’ for Palexpo and what the fair looks like. As it was my first SIHH, I had no idea of what to… Read More ›
Although I did not get to spend as much time at the GTE as I had hoped and which it deserved, a visit to Peter Speake-Marin was mandatory, as it had been a few years since we last met in… Read More ›
A while ago I wrote about the Badollet Ivresse, a fascinating curved watch (with a more gentle curve than Eva Leube’s Ari) with such a pared back sense of elegant simplicity that not only is the tourbillon not visible from… Read More ›
Irish brothers John and Stephen McGonigle’s first watch, launched in 2007, was a tourbillon that earned them candidacy to the AHCI (Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants). Their second watch the ‘Tuscar’, named after a lighthouse marked group of rocks that skirt… Read More ›
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