Reading Time: 5 minutes Hautlence HL Vagabonde Tourbillon is a fabulous piece that I had in my hands during SIHH2019. This mesmerising piece uses no hands but a disc system to show the passing time. A rectangular 5N red gold completes the package. This is a short presentation of the piece seen at Geneva.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutes On Thursday, 7th of November, I was invited by Girard-Perregaux to visit their freshly refurbished manufacture. The tour was organised on three different brand’s sites: the manufacture at Rue des Crêtets, the Haute-Horlogerie Department at Rue Numa-Droz and, the final destination of the tour, the Girard-Perregaux villa. I will notContinue Reading
Reading Time: 7 minutes The talented, multi-award-winning singer, songwriter and producer has long been a friend of the brand, sporting many of its iconic timepieces. And when Richard Mille suggested they work together on the first watch to bear his name, Pharrell looked deep into his childhood for inspiration – Richard Mille RM 52-05Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes Swiss watchmaker RJ dropped its new ARRAW Spider-Man collection in the United States on Friday, October 18, at Watches of Switzerland Soho. The technically innovative collection, created in partnership with Disney and MARVEL, includes the ARRAW Spider-Man Tourbillon and the new skeletonized ARRAW Spider-Man mechanical timepiece, each fully integrating theContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes Mexico City (October 16, 2019) – Swiss watchmaker RJ drops the ARRAW Spider-Man Tourbillon, the brand’s first complication designed and produced entirely in-house, at the annual SIAR event in Mexico City. The ARRAW Spider-Man, an in-house mechanical openworked timepiece, was also launched at SIAR. Each of these technically innovative watches fullyContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes For the first time ever, Harry Winston uses four distinct tourbillons in an Histoire de Tourbillon creation. Arranged in perfectly symmetrical order, the four independent, adjacent cores rotate in 36 seconds, their high-precision steps unified by a series of three differentials. Together, they make Histoire de Tourbillon 10 a timepieceContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes Angelus U51 Diver Tourbillon was presented this year at Baselworld. The high-tech piece uses modern design and manufacturing techniques. Its “tech” charm is doubled by a good looking appearance. The Angelus U51 Diver Tourbillon has real diver watch capabilities: unidirectional diver bezel set by an external crown, Helium escape valveContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes Chopard took Baselworld 2019 by storm with its first flying tourbillon calibre – the Chopard L.U.C Flying T Twin. The sophistication and the elegance of the Flying T are doubled by the ethically certified “Fairmined” materials. The brand assured the finesse with the “Poinçon de Genève” quality hallmark. A conciseContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes After the great success of last year’s Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon Manufacture, Frederique Constant launches two new limited editions in stainless steel or 18K rose gold. Both feature a classic navy-blue skeleton dial, offering its wearer a precious glance at the watch’s complex mechanics. The Frederique Constant Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar Manufacture hasContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes La Maison de connaisseurs, Vacheron Constantin, released this year at SIHH a nice surprise in the Overseas Collection. The Vacheron Constantin Overseas Tourbillon 6000V is the first of its kind in the brand’s sports collection – an 80 hours power reserve automatic watch equipped with a sixty seconds tourbillon. Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the small Saxon town of Glashütte, elegance and mechanics have long been combined in elaborately finished timepieces. In 1920, the master watchmaker Alfred Helwig gave the tourbillon, one of the most challenging complications of haute horlogerie, the appearance of weightlessness by anchoring the mechanism on one side only. TodayContinue Reading