Baselworld releases often have the watch industry equivalent of a restaurant’s ‘soft opening’ up to months before the actual fair, and so it was at the end of January 2013 in Geneva when I visited Zenith’s temporary digs and saw… Read More ›
Watch shows
HANDS ON : Montblanc’s Nicholas Rieussec Rising Hours
Who was Nicholas Rieussec? Well in 1821 he created a chronograph for horse racing, using two discs and ink. A piece created first and foremost to satisfy a need, Rieussec had a pair of indices with ink-filled nibs above two… Read More ›
Piaget : not just watches
Some of you may know that as well as their watches, Piaget has a successful and significant jewellery collection for both men and women. Their jewellery range is perhaps not as widely available or well-known as their watches, but the… Read More ›
EXHIBITION : Breguet – inventor of the tourbillon
This year Montres Breguet is celebrating the Breguet tourbillon via a worldwide travelling exhibition that was launched at Geneva’s Cité du Temps during SIHH 2013, where it was on display for a month. Entitled “Breguet, the innovator. Inventor of the… Read More ›
Can a watch be ‘art’?
That must constitute one of the oldest and most re-hashed discussions possible amongst the human species, but though whether something might constitute ‘art’ will inevitably result in animated discussion amongst the great and good (and the rest of us), perhaps… Read More ›
From floral folly to Métiers d’art
Watch brands, by and large, tend to focus on watches for the male of the species rather than the female in their major yearly launches, but this year Vacheron Constantin focused on women, bringing out some Métiers d’art pieces for… Read More ›
HYT presents the new H2
The HYT team have announced the new H2, a further development of last year’s H1 using the same basic concepts and technology, this time created in collaboration with Renaud & Papi. You can read more about the H1 at the… Read More ›
IWC : AMG Black Series Ceramic, the Silberpfeil & a digital complication
This post follows on from my previous post covering the most simple and the most complicated of the Ingenieurs from IWC this year. This time, it’s some of the rather more sporty models linked with the new Mercedes AMG Petronas… Read More ›
SIHH 2013 : the two extremes of the new IWC Ingenieurs
That 2013 would be IWC’s year of the Ingenieur, following on from 2012’s year of the Pilot watch, was well-known, so at SIHH the biggest questions were whether the booth would be as eye-catching as 2012’s one (it was), and… Read More ›
SIHH 2013 : Baume & Mercier
This year, it’s all about the new Clifton collection at Baume & Mercier. Harking back to a 1950s aesthetic, the focus is on variations of a classic round case design with simple and clear applied numerals and hour markers. Although… Read More ›
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