Eight years, three master watchmakers, fifty-seven complications, 2826 parts, ten patents, ten ‘firsts’, 957grams, 98mm in size, one reference number (Ref. 57260). Oh, and one hashtag, of course. Venerable house of horology or not, Vacheron Constantin’s 260th birthday is in… Read More ›
For those who are familiar with Geneva one of the horological points of interest, as it were, is the building that houses Vacheron Constantin on the Quai d l’Ile, its location also the name of one of their watch collections…. Read More ›
A.Lange & Söhne’s SIHH 2015 offerings were largely tweaks and updates of models apart from a few notable exceptions, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In the case of the new Datograph Perpetual in white gold with a dark… Read More ›
As regular readers of Horologium know, the dearth of mechanical complications in women’s watches is something that is occasionally commented upon, so when they do appear there is a certain level of interest. Montblanc are in the throes of an… Read More ›
Cartier likes to create show stopping haute horlogerie pieces, and headlining this year’s offerings at SIHH 2014 was a perpetual calendar tourbillon known as the ‘Astrocalendaire’. Housing a variant of the in-house automatic Calibre 9459 MC, this complication comes in… Read More ›
This year the Lange booth at SIHH 2014 was dominated by another outsized watch, fit for a particularly large Ent, if Ents had wrists, wore watches and were the slightest bit interested in perpetual calendars. With its own display area… Read More ›
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