Evan Rast reports on the timepieces that caught her eye at last month's Salon de la Haute Horlogerie
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The Swiss watch industry continues to mature with a focus on hefty investments on production capacity and a trend for more austere models. Exports grew by a modest 2% in 2013 matched with a...
Rolex had a long list of achievements to announce at Baselworld this year. Apart from the usual aesthetic and functional improvements to favourites like the GMT-Master II and the Milgauss, the...
The Louis Cartier collection is named after that Parisian creator of genius, an artistic adventurer who was in touch with the world and its developments, but who also had a dreaming, fantastical and...
With its powerful lines, rugged case and original architecture, the Calibre de Cartier watch, launched in 2010, is the new symbol of confident masculinity. Its dial boldly reinterprets the Maison...
There’s no such thing as down time when it comes to Baselworld. An action-packed week of previews and launches usually equals an avalanche of information, but to any watch aficionado, this...
Neither entirely a movement nor exactly a case, the Altiplano 38mm 900P is the world's thinnest mechanical watch. Merging the hand-wound calibre with the case elements, it is designed as a single...
This last week January in Geneva, sixteen watch brands offered 14,000 visitors from around the globe a taste of their technical mastery once again, from the top-tier grand complications to sleek,...
After years of imagining their dream watch, friends Sigurdur Gilbertsson, Julius Heidarsson and Grimkell Sigurthorsson decided to make the timepiece a reality. In 2005, with Gilbertson’s father,...
Traditional watch manufacturer Piaget has been developing exceptional timepieces since its founding in 1874. Building on this wealth of experience, the brand also actively participates in...
The space covers more than 800 square metres of the House of Roosevelt, with window displays on the ground floor facing the Bund, and embodies far more than a mere retail store. In the highly...