Salon Sightings

The Calibre collection, Cartier’s tribute to the modern gentleman, was also available for viewing. The watch comes in an all-new case shape, perfectly sized at 42mm, and fitted with the manufacture’s first in-house automatic calibre, the MC1904.
At Jaeger-LeCoultre, the star would have to be the Master Eight Days Squelette, a perpetual calendar with eight-day power reserve, and entirely skeletonised movement. According to the brand, each component was designed to be part of the artwork that is the dial.

One super complication that deserves mention is Vacheron Constantin’s Patrimony Traditionnelle Perpetual Calendar Chronograph or Calibre 2755.

Following in the footsteps of the brand’s 250th anniversary masterpiece, the Tour de L’Ile, this watch features three sophisticated complications: a tourbiilon, the perpetual calendar and minute repeater. The watch took three years to develop, and currently holds the “Most Complicated” title in VC’s collection. The Calibre 2755 has more than 602 parts, fitted into a teeny 33.3mm diameter base. The watch also offers a lengthy 55-hour power reserve.

Another hot watch from the show has to be the PAM 339 from Panerai. Released at this year's SIHH, the Radiomir Marina Militare comes in a very vintage-looking case, which is made from a unique 'Composite' material that gives it its chocolate brown shade. The special combination of ceramic and aluminum used for the case makes it harder than steel and titanium, but lighter. A great feature of the watch, aside from its edgy design, is its very lengthy power reserve of eight days (that's 192 hours!) made possible by a three-barrel movement, the in- house P.2002/7 handwound calibre.