Inside its crystal clear cabinet made of anti-reflective glass, the new Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos Transparente clock displays a strikingly sober new face. From every angle —front, side or back— the vision is captivating and the equilibrium is perfect. The dial is embellished by an Art Deco style. Hour-markers and hands follow a minimalist aesthetic. The base is satin-brushed and rhodium plated. Thanks to a very simple mechanism invented by engineer Jean-Léon Reutter in 1928 and brought to market by Jaeger-LeCoultre in the 1930s, the Atmos clock lives on air. Always as constant, always as accurate.
Experience: Fauré Le Page Belt. A Classic Meets one of Our Favorite Belts at the Moment.
Established 38 years earlier than Vacheron Constantin —which happens to be the oldest watch manufacture in the world founded in 1755 with over 260 years of uninterrupted history—, Fauré Le Page is today the oldest French luxury 'maroquinier' —leather goods company— in the world as it was established in 1717, more than a century before Goyard and Louis Vuitton. Much like a rare Rolex Datejust Oysterquartz ref. 17000A that is reserved for those that know, Fauré Le Page would be the equivalent when it comes to luxury leather goods.
News: Cory Richards' Overseas Dual Time Prototype Sells for $106,260 USD at Phillips Watches Game Changers Auction
The Vacheron Constantin Cory Richards’ Overseas Prototype was auctioned at Phillips Watches last night December 10th in New York City as part of the Phillips’ Game Changers auction. The Phillips Game Changers auction was dedicated to watches owned by extraordinary people who are considered “game changers” in their fields. Along with Cory Richards’ watch, other important watches were offered for sale including Jack Nicklaus’ Rolex Day-Date as well as Marlon Brando’s Rolex GMT Master.
News: Introducing the Vacheron Constantin Les Cabinotiers Armillary Tourbillon Piece Unique
In the wake of the Reference 57260 watch and its 57 complications presented in 2015, this one-of-a-kind timepiece highlights two of its emblematic functions: the bi-axial armillary tourbillon with spherical balance-spring and the instant retrograde display of the time indications. This exceptional horological structure is housed in a titanium case, an ultra-light material that reveals the full depth of this model in a resolutely contemporary style. Four patents have been registered for the high-precision manual-winding 1990 calibre powering this watch.
News: Introducing the Richard Mille RM 11-04 Roberto Mancini Carbon TPT
Roberto Mancini, a Richard Mille partner since 2013Manager of the Squadra Azzurra, Italy’s national football team, Roberto Mancini is back on home turf after coaching the Saint Petersburg Zenit club for two years. He now takes up a new challenge: making Italy the number one football nation in Europe, and the world. Mancini will wear the new RM 11-04 Automatic Flyback Chronograph while shouldering his task and attempting to make the dream of so many Tifosi come true.
Insider: MB&F Legacy Machine Thunderdome. Eric Coudray and Voutilainen Create the Most Impressive Triple Axis Tourbillon Ever.
When you combine the names MB&f, Eric Coudray and Kari Voutilainen in one project the result is simply out of this world. The new MB&F Legacy Machine Thunderdome is the first-ever collaboration between legends Eric Coudray and Kari Voutilainen and the birth of a totally new proprietary ‘TriAx’ tourbillon mechanism that features 3 axes revolving at different speeds and on different planes, in record-breaking 8 seconds, 12 seconds and 20 seconds. Additionally, the Legacy Machine Thunderdome offers the first-ever combination of Potter escapement, hemispherical balance, and helical hairspring.
Insider: Jacob & Co. Brilliant Flying Tourbillon Tsavorites. An 18-Piece Limited Edition.
Measuring 47 mm in diameter and 14.65 mm in thickness, the Jacob & Co. Brilliant Flying Tourbillon Tsavorites is cased in 18K yellow gold with an invisible gem-set of 170 baguette tsavorites with a total weight of 12.10 carats. Tsavorite is the trade name used to refer for the emerald-green variety of a grossular garnet that comes from Africa. Tsavorite has become one of the most popular and expensive garnets, due to its rarity.
Eye Candy: Ferdinand Berthoud Chronomètre FB1.2 and FB1.3. Stunning Watch Making as Exclusive as it Gets.
The Ferdinand Berthoud Chronomètre FB1.2 and FB1.3 are in-house Fusée-Chain Chronometers equipped with a tourbillon. Featuring 44 mm octagonal cases with watertight openings —that allow for lateral view of the movement—, the Chronomètre Ferdinand Berthoud FB 1 is powered by a manual wound movement composed of no less than 1,120 components. Both watches are available in a highly exclusive limited edition of 50 pieces each with close to a quarter million dollars price tag.
Experience: Visiting the HYT Manufature in Neuchâtel. The Compound for the Hydromechanical Horologists and Preciflex.
Located in the northern shore of Lake Neuchâtel and flanked by the Jura Mountains, Neuchâtel is the home to many watch manufactures including Panerai, Zenith and HYT watches. Just 15 minutes away by train from the city of Biel/Bienne, Neuchâtel is also home to spectacular vineyards, Switzerland’s largest bird watching paradise and decadent fish cuisine straight from its glacier water lake. Housed inside the Preciflex headquarters, the HYT Manufacture feels more like some sort of secret technology lab rather than your typical watch manufacture. Preciflex develops, industrializes and manufactures disruptive micro- and meso-fluidic devices with the purpose of indicating, injecting, diffusing or managing power. They target industries such as watchmaking, medical devices, interior design objects, cosmetics and automotive. Their expertise offers new solutions in the areas of micro mechanics, fluid mechanics, chemistry, electronics and optics.
News: Introducing the Ressence Type 1DXB in Collaboration with Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons
Ressence, the Belgian watch company that keeps challenging the status quo of mechanical watchmaking, in close collaboration with Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons, the UAE’s leading retailer of luxury watches and jewelry, is excited to announce the release of the Type 1 DXB —a limited edition of the Type 1 Squared. The new Ressence in collaboration with Seddiqi is limited to 19 pieces and draws inspiration from Arabic geometric patterns, believed to unveil the underlying reality to the viewer. This traditional design composes with natural light and creates a unique shadow play. It is an Arabic take on skeleton dials.
Rare Bird: Voutilainen Vingt-8. A Perfect Example of the Hand Mastery of Kari Voutilainen.
Kari Voutilainen was born in Finland in 1962 and has a passionate interest in horology spanning thirty years. He completed his initial watchmaker’s training at the world-renowned watchmaking school of Tapiola in Finland. He first came to Switzerland in 1989 to attend the International Watchmaking School, where he completed the WOSTEP complicated watch course, a post-graduate course for those watchmakers dedicated to the restoration of complicated, high-quality rare watches. He was quickly spotted by Parmigiani Mesure et Art du Temps, where over the following ten years he was at the center of the restoration work of some of the world’s rarest pieces as well as the creation of new and original ‘one-off’ pieces.
News: Introducing the Armin Strom Gravity Equal Force. The First Piece in the New System 78 Collection.
The Armin Strom Gravity Equal Force is the newest watch demonstrating an Armin Strom core principle: always be innovating. This watch takes the traditional mainspring barrel and turns it on its head by adding a stop-work declutch mechanism combined with automatic winding to create consistent power delivery to the balance. With a bold redesign of the movement, dial, and case, Gravity Equal Force marks the launch of the new System 78 Collection, highlighting innovative watchmaking at a competitive price. As a guiding principle, every watch that comes from the Armin Strom manufacture must include an innovation. The inspiration behind Gravity Equal Force was a desire to transmit equal force to the balance, thereby increasing the consistency of rate.
News: Introducing the MB&F Legacy Machine 101 Palladium. An 18-Piece Limited Edition in 'Vert d'eau' Color.
The MB&F Legacy Machine 101 may be the most classic Legacy Machine, focusing on the essence of a mechanical wristwatch —hence the ‘101’ name— it is no less a Machine of firsts. When it was launched back in 2014, it housed the very first movement developed entirely in-house by MB&F. Today, the LM101 series inaugurates our very first piece in palladium, a rare silvery-white metal similar to platinum. And finally, the new palladium edition gets another first: a brand new color for the sunray dial plate, which varies between pale blue and green —a color best described in French as “vert d’eau”— sea green or aquamarine in English.
News: Introducing the Vacheron Constantin Dual Time and Ladies Quartz Overseas with Black Lacquered Dial
The Overseas collection treats itself to a total black look. Two new timepieces are available in a black lacquered dial beautifully framed by the shimmering gleam of the steel case. Launched in 2018, the Overseas dual time model equipped with the 5110 DT automatic Manufacture movement enables simultaneous reading of two time zones, complete with date and day/night indication. The Overseas Lady quartz appears with diamonds on its bezel to light up the path of its hands, while the date is displayed at 3 o'clock. Following the Overseas Chronograph and the Overseas Automatic black dial success, the novelties unveiled today enrich the black dials references, highly sought after by collectors.
News: Introducing the Richard Mille RM 52-05 Tourbillon Pharrell Williams. A 30-Piece Limited Edition.
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. “I’ve always been fascinated by looking up at the sky. What could be more inspiring than all that ever was and all that ever will be? Space, before your eyes. It’s yours to see. It was here before the Earth, before this Solar System. It’ll be here after us and nothing’s more meaningful than that. When I look up at the sky I’m looking at God. I feel part of so many different parts of a whole. This is the Alpha and the Omega.”
News: De Bethune Presents the Maestri’Art DW5 Armilia Unique Piece. A Hand-Engraved Piece of Horological Art.
De Bethune plunges into the fantasy universe of designer and scenographer François Schuiten, nicknamed the “Watchmaker of Dreams” while engaging in a dialogue with the enigmatic world of The Obscure Cities through signature motif highlighted on the very structure of its DW5. A reality shift, a parallel universe in which humans are often left to their own devices —even though the reality is never very far away— this imaginary world is composed of enigmas and mysteries. Through shadows and unusual reflections of our world subject to the principle of worrying strangeness, the authors of The Obscure Cities usher their readers into spectacularly extravagant settings while maintaining a distinctly human approach.
News: WatchBox Announces Partnership with Seddiqi & Sons to Launch in the Middle East
WatchBox, the global leader in pre-owned luxury timepieces and Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons, the Middle East’s most respected and established luxury watch retailer, today announced a joint venture to launch WatchBox Middle East. This partnership brings expertise in the secondary watch market to the region through WatchBox’s signature ‘electronic trading’ platform and also marks the debut of its retail footprint. A flagship WatchBox boutique dedicated to luxury pre-owned timepiece services including buying, selling, and trading will be unveiled in the Dubai International Financial Centre —DIFC— in November 2019.
News: Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève GPHG 2019 Winners. Audemars Piguet Takes the 'Aiguille d'Or' Grand Prix.
Excellence, innovation and watchmaking expertise were duly rewarded today November 7th, 2019 at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, on the occasion of the 19th Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève —GPHG— prize-giving ceremony. The international jury of this edition 2019 of the GPHG handed out 19 prizes, including the supreme “Aiguille d’Or” prize awarded to Audemars Piguet for their amazing Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin, the world’s thinnest automatic perpetual calendar. Now, on to the rest of tonight's winners.
News: Introducing the Richard Mille RM 52-06 Tourbillon Mask. Four 18-Piece Limited Editions.
In 2012, the RM 052 Tourbillon Skull, with its overtly philosophical allegory, served as a milestone in the history of Richard Mille. Symbolizing nonconformity and freedom, the watch was a runaway success, its only limit is that it had a very small production run. Demand for this esoteric piece encouraged Richard Mille to revisit the theme in a new way and bring to life the RM 52-06 Tourbillon Mask. Surrealistic, fantastic, mysterious. The curvaceous lines of the iconic symbol enthroned in the heart of the tourbillon movement make the RM 52-06 one of the most enigmatic calibres.
Eye Candy: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Chronograph Openworked Black Ceramic ref. 26343CE. A Haute Horlogerie Black Knight.
First released in 2018 at the SIHH, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Chronograph Openworked Black Ceramic ref. 26343CE was presented on a rubber strap and in a limited edition of 25 pieces in four different color accents on its minute track. But to make things even more interesting this year, Audemars Piguet also released the Royal Oak Tourbillon Chronograph Openworked Black Ceramic with a matching black ceramic bracelet and in a limited edition of 100 pieces. This new reference 26343CE.OO.1247CE.01 watch features a 30-minute chronograph and a tourbillon in a full black ceramic look.
