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 ›
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INDUSTRY NEWS: Watches & Wonders Shanghai 2020
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 ›
INDUSTRY NEWS: HOURUNIVERSE
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 ›
INDUSTRY NEWS: James Murdoch set to invest in Baselworld organiser MCH Group
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 ›
NEW: Cartier Métiers D’art Ronde Louis Cartier Straw and Gold Marquetry & Enamel Filigree
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 ›
NEW: IWC Portugieser Tourbillon Retrograde Chronograph
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 ›
INDUSTRY NEWS: Geneva Watch Days update
Launched in March 2020 as a response to the cancellation of this year’s major watch fairs, the Geneva Watch Days event, which had been postponed to August, has announced that they still plan to hold the event at this time… Read More ›
NEW: Panerai Luminor Marina Fibratech PAM01663
In an earlier post about Officine Panerai’s commemoration of 70 years of the Luminor, I mentioned a new composite material making its debut – Fibratech™ , a basalt-fibre composite created to be light (it is 70% lighter than steel and… Read More ›
NEW: Parmigiani Tonda Tondagraphe Tourbillon
Following on from the previous post about a new model combining a chronograph and a calendar function, today’s post it is also about a newly announced piece combining a chronograph with other complications – in this case, with a tourbillon…. Read More ›
NEW: Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Chronograph Calendar and a Master Control update
Named for the fact that it was the first of Jaeger-LeCoultre’s collections to have the ‘1000 Hours Control’ certification, the longstanding Master Control collection is getting some attention this year with newly tweaked Date, Calendar, and Geographic models, plus the… Read More ›