Back in 2014 Chopard introduced their first watch using Fairmined® gold, the standard for ‘fair mined’ having been determined in 2011 by the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM). At the time, I noted that some of the challenges faced by… Read More ›
Hautlence are a brand that is not above a bit of fun, and being unexpected. Last year they launched the HL Kinetic table clock, a time piece which displayed hours and minutes via spheres in two transparent columns. Each black… Read More ›
In his first launches for 2019, Kari Voutilainen focused not on any new model, but on new sizing (the ones in today’s post are 44mm and 37.5mm) and dial materials/ patterns for his Vingt-8. Today, we are sharing some of… Read More ›
Glashütte brand Moritz Grossmann has launched its first watch with a GMT function, and succinctly named it as such. Bearing a dial of classic design, the twelve hour markers show the current time for the wearer. The outer twenty-four hour… Read More ›
In 2015 De Bethune launched their most ‘sporty’ watch to date, called the DB28GS (Grand Sport). Given the dressy and incredibly highly finished watches for which they are known, it was a ‘sports watch’ (some even called it a diving… Read More ›
Hot on the heels of the announcement by the SIHH and Baselworld fairs that they will co-ordinate their fairs for the period of 2020 – 2024 comes the news, reported by Reuters, that the Swatch Group, whose shock announcement that… Read More ›
Barely a week has passed since the announcement by Corum that that they will leave Baselworld, but the departures continue, with the latest withdrawal from Baselworld 2019 being Maurice Lacroix, a thirty year veteran of the fair. In what is… Read More ›
Audemars Piguet and Richard Mille may have announced their surprise withdrawal from the SIHH a few weeks ago, but it is back to what is arguably becoming a hemorrhaging of exhibitors from Baselworld. Corum is the latest to depart, with… Read More ›
The SIHH may be expanding in terms of exhibitors (although reduced in days), but Baselworld has been shrinking both in terms of participants and length, with the 2019 edition to be even more noticeably smaller than this year’s due to… Read More ›
