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• IWC : Portugieser Hand-Wound Eight Days ‘150 Years’

  By horologium on May 21, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  This year IWC Schaffhausen announced a number of special Portugieser watches as part of its 150th birthday Jubilee collection : the Portugieser Constant-Force Tourbillon Edition ‘150 Years’, Portugieser Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon Edition ‘150 Years’, Portugieser Perpetual Calendar Edition “150 Years”a… Read More ›

• DEWITT : Academia Endless Drive

  By horologium on May 17, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Today, following on from our last post about one of the most interesting watches we’ve seen so far this year, we are looking at another timepiece that we have found eye-catching, although it is for reasons of design, and how… Read More ›

• RESSENCE : Type 2 e-Crown® Concept

  By horologium on May 14, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the most intriguing new watches I’ve come across so far this year has been the Ressence Type 2 e-Crown Concept. Self-evidently, ‘e-Crown®’ refers to ‘electronic crown’, a new time setting technology developed by Ressence that stretches the brand’s… Read More ›

• MONTBLANC : 1858 Geosphere

  By horologium on May 10, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Montblanc’s releases during 2018 are focused into three lines: the 1858 collection, the TimeWalker collection, and the Star Legacy collection. Today, we are looking at the first of these. As well, this year marks the 160th birthday of the ‘Minerva’… Read More ›

• PARMIGIANI : Revival of the Kalpa

  By horologium on May 8, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The tonneau-cased Kalpa with its teardrop lugs and Delta-shaped hands is perhaps the case design most characteristically recognised as being from Parmigiani Fleurier. It is also of great sentimental value to Michel Parmigiani; in 1998, the Kalpa was where his… Read More ›

• DE BETHUNE : DB28 Steel Wheels

  By horologium on May 4, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  As mentioned in a post earlier this year, 2018 is a year of change for De Bethune, both of management, and of focus. The markers of this change, horologically, were the Titan Hawk v2 covered in that post, and the… Read More ›

• ULYSSE NARDIN : Freak Vision

  By horologium on May 2, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Since it was first launched, the Freak has become arguably Ulysse Nardin’s most distinctive model collection. This year, they have updated it not only with their first automatic version, but also using new technology first unveiled inside the Innovision 2… Read More ›

• KARI VOUTILAINEN : 217QRS Retrograde Date

  By horologium on April 30, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  This year has seen the launch, by Kari Voutilainen, of a new watch inspired by his Vingt-8 movement. Called the 217QRS, it features a retrograde date display with an unusual attribute. The usual retrograde date function of this type with… Read More ›

• INDUSTRY NEWS : new CEOs for Jaeger-LeCoultre and Baume et Mercier

  By horologium on April 27, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  After a movement-filled 2017 for Richemont senior executives which started with both Board level and structural changes, not to mention a major departure, the South China Morning Post has reported that the Asia-Pacific President of Van Cleef & Arpels, Catherine Renier,… Read More ›

• MB&F : the HM7 Aquapod goes green

  By horologium on April 26, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Two years ago, MB&F released the remarkable Cnidarian-inspired HM7 Aquapod (about which you can read here) in two limited editions of sixty-six pieces in rose gold, and thirty-three pieces in titanium. The former had a black ceramic bezel and the… Read More ›

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