Reading Time: 7 minutesLa Esmeralda is the famous prizewinning pocket watch made for the ‘Exposition Universelle’ in 1889. This legendary pocket watch blended extraordinary precision with several artistic crafts. As the Manufacture celebrates its 230-year anniversary, it has revisited its iconic timepiece of 1889 and created a wristwatch that both celebrates the Maison’sContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Portugieser Hand-Wound Tourbillon combines timeless, iconic Portugieser design with a stunning flying minute tourbillon at 6 o’clock. Powered by the newly developed IWC-manufactured hand-wound 81905 calibre with an 84-hour power reserve, this extraordinary timepiece features a case made of 18-carat Armor Gold® and a silver-plated dial.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn June 26, 1801, or on “7 Messidor An IX”, to use the French Republican calendar in force at the time, Abraham-Louis Breguet secured a patent in Paris for his “watch compensating for all of the inequalities that may be found in the balance wheel and mainspring”. Breguet named hisContinue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutesDe Bethune Dream Watch 5 Tourbillon ‘Season 1’ is the result of a genuine challenge issued to De Bethune by the American star Swizz Beatz. Denis Flageollet and his team came up with a response. Mastery of sapphire crystal, skilled workmanship in titanium, horological virtuosity: the outcome is an exceptionalContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesFounded in 2010, CYRUS Genève turned 10 in 2020. To celebrate this important milestone, the Swiss Manufacture has created a limited series of 10 pieces. Due to the current global pandemic and as it happened also for the Olympic Games in Tokyo, we are able to unveil the new KLEPCYSContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesUlysse Nardin celebrates the 175 years brand’s anniversary. An impressive number sprinkled with exceptional innovations and technologies, magnificent examples of Haute Horlogerie and deep respect for heritage. During Geneva Watch Days 2021, the Le Locle originated brand revealed seven extraordinary pieces. From there, I selected the Marine Torpilleur Tourbillon GrandContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn 1867, Girard-Perregaux unveiled the ‘Tourbillon with Three Gold Bridges’ and an icon was born. Unusually, the bridges, three functional parts typically hidden from view, were made an aesthetic element. By taking this decision, the Manufacture became known for making the invisible visible. This approach has been employed on severalContinue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutesFollowing through on the win in the Ladies’ Complication category at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève 2020, Charles Girardier now opens up the 1809 collection to a male audience. As the first men’s version of the Mysterious Signature (Signature Mystérieuse) flying tourbillon, the 1809 Cobalt Blue 41 mm pushesContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesSince 2017, Hublot has been setting its watches with all the colours of the rainbow. However, the watch brand has never combined all of its seven colours in one piece. Until now! Two exceptional High Jewellery pieces adorned with the full rainbow spectrum, from the case to the dial andContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Maison unveils the new radically innovative aesthetic of its masterpiece, whose tourbillon is revealed through meticulous geometry: Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Skelet-One Tourbillon.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesA. Lange & Söhne CABARET TOURBILLON HANDWERKSKUNST is – viewed from all sides – an extravagant timepiece. It combines superb watchmaking artistry, to the outermost angles of its rectangular calibre, with elaborate, traditional and, meanwhile, rare techniques. They include semi-transparent enamelling of the dial and several manual engravings in theContinue Reading