From Tuesday 27 October until Sunday 13 December 2020 the History of Science Museum, Oxford, is hosting an exhibition on time and time-keeping called “The Heartbeat of the City: 500 Years of Personal Time”. It is presented by the History… Read More ›
This may be the year of the Luminor for Officine Panerai this year, but that does not mean that they have abandoned new releases from their other collection families. At the recent Watches & Wonders Shanghai they launched a new… Read More ›
To mark thirty years since the brand’s modern rebirth, A. Lange & Söhne has launched three special watches in its proprietary ‘Honeygold’ in honour of Ferdinand Adoph Lange. They are the 1815 Thin Honeygold, the 1815 Rattrapante Honeygold, and the… Read More ›
The corporate adventures of Baselworld/ HOURUNIVERSE/ Art Basel organiser the MCH Group continue, with the latest update a consequence of the Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) held earlier this month, during which 848 shareholders (91% of the nominal share value) voted… Read More ›
Last month we reported that James Murdoch, through his investment firm Lupa Systems LLC, had been talks to take a 30-44% stake in the MCH Group and become an “anchor shareholder”. An Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) was announced for August… Read More ›
This year’s inaugural Watches & Wonders Geneva 2020 went digital, and the releases are still filtering down to worldwide markets, but the W&W-branded expansion continues, with the announcement of their first event in Shanghai. Remembering, of course, that there were… Read More ›
It seems like only yesterday that there was news from the MCH Group, but no it was almost two weeks ago when the news broke about James Murdoch’s impending involvement with MCH. Now, they have announced an entirely new non-Baselworld… Read More ›
The ongoing saga of Baselworld and organisers the MCH Group continue, with the surprise announcement that Lupa Systems LLC, an investment firm founded by James Murdoch in 2019, has been in talks to take a 30-44% stake in the Group…. Read More ›
This year, Cartier has released two new limited edition Métiers d’Art watches featuring the arts of marquetry, enamelling, miniature painting, and gem-setting to highlight its ‘house mascot’, the panthère. Meet the new Ronde Louis Cartier Straw and Gold Marquetry, and… Read More ›
Along with the simplicity of the new Portugieser Automatic launched by IWC this ‘year of the Port’, at the other end of the spectrum is a multi-complication – the new Portugieser Tourbillon Retrograde Chronograph. This is along a similar thematic… Read More ›
