Reading Time: 3 minutesIn China, the Year of the Tiger is greeted with joy and celebration. Ulysse Nardin is delighted to join in the revelry. Passionate, daring, confident and determined, people born in the year of the tiger are considered to be brave and respected for their courage by both friends and foes.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesWatchmaking is closely connected with astronomy. Indeed, the technique of measuring time, just like the idea of dividing time into intervals based on periodic astronomical phenomena, was born out of early astronomical observations. At the same time, astronomy owes much to chronometry. Many of the ancient clocks and watchmakers wereContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesRessence, the watch company devoted to challenging the status quo of mechanical watchmaking, is excited to announce the release of the Ressence Type 3BBB, a new example of the award-winning Type 3 watch in an exclusive monochrome design.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesMore than twenty years ago, Frederique Constant launched its Highlife collection. In 2020, the Maison brought it back to the forefront of the watchmaking scene. Today, its flagship model, the Highlife Perpetual Calendar Manufacture, is offered for the first time with a mysterious blue-grey dial.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesH. Moser & Cie. just launched today a sublime dress watch in collaboration with The Armoury. Cased in steel and featuring the brand’s now-iconic and representative ultrahigh-tech Vantablack, the Endeavour bears some distinctive notes imposed by Mark Chow and his The Armoury team. I asked Edouard Meylan, CEO of H.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe name, rarity and mysterious, almost mystical character of this piece are inspired by the eclipse. Featuring a dial coated in Vantablack®, a deep, intense black to contrast against the inner bezel – a halo as bright as the sun’s corona in a total solar eclipse – the Endeavour SmallContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesArnold & Son “Year of the Tiger” Perpetual Moon: the year of the Water Tiger is embodied in an expressive version of the Perpetual Moon. Arnold & Son has fashioned a golden tiger, roaring and on the alert. In the background, a waterfall symbolises the element that tempers this feline’sContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesShe is a legend in the world of longboarding, a star in her own right. Smooth, fast, free, elegant and wild all at once, she dances on her longboard. The incredible Cape Verdean longboarder, Marina Correia, crowned world champion in longboard dancing and freestyle in 2020, has chosen Maurice LacroixContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesCelebrating Valentine’s Day is a tradition that Blancpain watchmakers have been perpetuating for over 20 years – and with good reason, as the Manufacture in Le Brassus is not keen on anything that is merely fleeting. The Blancpain Ladybird Saint-Valentin 2022 bears perfect testimony to enduring feelings, uniting time withContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesFollowing the highly acclaimed and sought-after reproductions of historical El Primero models from the 1960s and 1970s, the from 1969: Introducing the DEFY Revival A3642, a modern reproduction of the earliest DEFY model.Continue Reading
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGeneva, 17 January 2022 – The 2022 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) awards ceremony will take place on Thursday 10 November at the Théâtre du Léman in Geneva. For the 22nd consecutive year, this unmissable event will salute the excellence and creativity of contemporary watchmaking. In the months leading up to this date, theContinue Reading