The departures from watch fairs continues, with Greubel Forsey announcing that they will not be attending the re-named Watches & Wonders Geneva from 2020 onwards. Also following in the path of much larger brands who have changed tack, they will… Read More ›
A third generation watchmaker and AHCI member, this year David Candaux presented the DC6 Half Hunter Tourbillon Series. The Solstice collection that is the subject of today’s post uses the same design, movements, and finishing as the Half Hunters, but… Read More ›
“Living life in Hublot rainbow colours” is the refrain, and the GPHG have decided to do this, with the Big Bang One Click Rainbow as one the 2019 award’s pre-selected finalists in the ‘Jewellery’ category. Hublot released a ‘double rainbow’… Read More ›
The famous SIHH brand is no more, as the more recent ‘Watches & Wonders’ offshoot ‘sub brand’ takes over. What was informally called ‘watch week’ by many attending the SIHH for the plethora of watch-related events around Geneva during the… Read More ›
Named for founder Louis-Ulysse Chopard, the LUC collection has been where the eponymous brand have focused on exhibiting fine watchmaking since its launch. They celebrated 10 years of L.U.C. with a limited edition 10 CF Chrono One in 2006, and… Read More ›
The Denis Flageollet blue for which De Bethune has become known and which, arguably, is the best ‘brand blue’ around, has become the company’s distinctive signature to the point where a completely yellow watch took me some time to get… Read More ›
A number of months ago we introduced the new Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin. Containing the 2.89mm thick Calibre 5133, a movement that made its inaugural appearance in the record-breaking RD#2, it is a 41mm sized case… Read More ›
Earlier this year Andersen Genève introduced a new collection called ‘Art & Culture’ and with it, a limited edition (twelve pieces) launch model called ‘Vita Vinum’ (‘life wine’ in Latin). One of the six finalists in the GPHG 2019 ‘Artistic… Read More ›
Although there is no explicit marketing of them as such, MB&F’s watches have very much been dominated by men when it comes to ownership, although they can happily reside on wrists of types. Nonetheless, 2019 has seen the brand… Read More ›
Earlier this year Hautlence launched the HL Sphere 01, about which we wrote at this link. A wrist form of the HL Kinetic table clock, it displays hours and minutes via a spherical ‘jumping hour’ and a retrograde minute display…. Read More ›
