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• WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020 : IWC Portugieser Automatic 40 (Ref. 3583)

  By horologium on April 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Sometimes, it is the simple watches that can get a lot of people excited. Amid the plethora of new releases in IWC’s year of the ‘Port’ is the new Portugieser Automatic 40 – the revisiting of a much loved classic… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020 : Vacheron Constantin “La Musique du Temps®” Les Cabinotiers – the singing birds

  By horologium on April 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Over the past couple of months there has been widespread coverage of how the natural world has (re) emerged as humans have retreated indoors, whether it be in the form of flora, fauna, or the sight of stars or mountain… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020 : Laurent Ferrier Grand Sport Tourbillon

  By horologium on April 26, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Last year Laurent Ferrier, a brand best known for an at times creative take on classical watches and the quality of its finishing, released their first luxury sports watch. The Grand Sport Tourbillon was released in 2019 for quite specific… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020 : illuminating 70 years of the Panerai Luminor

  By horologium on April 25, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  At 0200 on the 25th of April 2020 Sydney time the first Watches & Wonders digital fair opened its press portal, at an hour which was probably better suited to other time zones. In taking a look at it at… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020 : Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso One Red Wine

  By horologium on April 25, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  As a continuation of the nod-to-Geneva Reverso theme this post is about a new but familiar new model launched this week in the same city. One of the hits of last year, and whose popularity went beyond its attention-grabbing hue… Read More ›

• WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020 : Cartier’s new Maillon de Cartier collection

  By horologium on April 25, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Watches & Wonders Geneva 2020 has had to go digital this year, but a major participating brand, Cartier, have decided to have their own dedicated website as well as participating in the fair’s site. The site, called ‘Digital Watchmaking Encounters’,… Read More ›

• HANDS-ON : Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Enamel Ferdinand Hodler

  By horologium on April 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In 2018, to commemorate the centenary of the death of Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918), Jaeger-LeCoultre’s ‘Métiers Rares’ artisans helped create a series of limited edition Reversos featuring engraved and enamelled miniature reproductions of Hodler’s works. Last month I was… Read More ›

• NEW : NOMOS Glashütte Doctors Without Borders Ahoi

  By horologium on April 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Since 2012 NOMOS Glashütte have been supporting the German Doctors Without Borders (Ärzte ohne Grenzen) with the sale of special ‘red 12’ pieces, and they have just launched two new limited edition Ahois for this year’s fundraising models. To date,… Read More ›

• NEW : GoS Skadi – Viking Goddess of Winter

  By horologium on April 23, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the more unexpected non COVID-19-related things that has happened over the last few weeks has been two reminders of a time, years ago, when I set myself what turned out to be an overly ambitious goal of reading… Read More ›

• INDUSTRY NEWS : Swiss watch exports for March 2020

  By horologium on April 21, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH has released its latest report on Swiss watch exports for the month of March 2020. Not unsurprisingly, there was a sharp fall, and a further deterioration is expected for April as a… Read More ›

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