Reading Time: 15 minutesFor Watches and Wonders, the 2023 edition, Cartier has prepared a suite of pieces to highlight, once again, the attention to details and elegance characteristic of the grande Maison. The enriched collection are: Cartier Privé, Jewelled Tank, Baignoire Allongée, Santos and Santos-Dumont, plus an amazing set of skeletonised watches.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 12 minutesFor Watches & Wonders 2023, Chopard prepared a series of pieces from its main collections: Alpine Eagle 41 XPS, Happy Hearts, Happy Sport and IMPERIALE.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe story of a FREAK The 2001 Ulysse Nardin Freak was an unlikely iconoclast. It also pioneered maverick technologies that now define 21st-century mechanical watchmaking. The Swiss watch revolution of the past 20 years has happened at an extraordinary pace. This has been a rich season of daring movement, materialContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesLouis Erard continues to enliven métiers d’art with a contemporary perspective and an impossible challenge: to make the most exclusive craftsmanship accessible, this time with the extreme practice of miniature marquetry featured on the dial – Louis Erard Excellence Marqueterie. Each dial is handmade, piece by piece, by an independentContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 2016, the Maurice Lacroix AIKON burst onto the watch scene, uniting urban style and Swiss precision while simultaneously delivering high perceived value. Appealing to both Millennials and members of Gen Z, the urban-inspired watch has proved to be a remarkable success. Nevertheless, the forward-looking watch brand never rests onContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesGlashütte Original Pano Inverse Urban Limited Edition 2023 – Urban canyons and skyscrapers, billboard ads and graffiti artists: Glashütte Original‘s latest creation takes the viewer on a journey into the pulsing heart of the big city – a place of unlimited possibilities. But not everything here is what it seemsContinue Reading
Reading Time: 12 minutesThe Le Rhöne Moön Aventurine Titane 37mm invites the gaze into an immense and eternal milky way, enhanced by a touch of mother-of-pearl and diamonds. Combining contemporary a sport chic style with refined finishes, it is COSC-certified as are all Le Rhöne watches. Beneath its understatedly elegant and easily legibleContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesRe-inventing 21st Century fine watchmaking requires re-thinking when it comes to the relationship one has with watches. A watch has an obvious functional role to play in our lives. But beyond that, it is emotional. The new TYPE 1° Round perpetuates Ressence’s minimalistic incarnation of time. Featuring revolving discs thatContinue Reading
Reading Time: 11 minutesAn octagonal case, a tourbillon movement with fusee-and-chain transmission and a pillar-based construction: the Chronomètre FB 1 has played a major role in defining the identity of Chronométrie Ferdinand Berthoud. Calibre FB-T.FC powering this model is now preparing to take a last bow, in the form of a final 38-pieceContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is doubtless the most eagerly anticipated URWERK collection. It is not, however, the most complex, nor the most singular. But it is the one that seals the beginning of the adventure, the starting point. A round URWERK watch … – yet hands-free, the only focal point being an hourContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesPforzheim, March 2023 – Especially in times of hustle and bustle, we often yearn for some rest, balance and harmony. That’s when we resort to the opposite – to everything which is the plain and simple. Minimalism and monochrome in particular have a calming and relaxing effect. Monochrome designs, especiallyContinue Reading