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Perpetual Calendar Chronograph
The Rotonde de Cartier perpetual calendar chronograph watch offers a rare luxury: it combines the measurement and display of short periods of time with a mechanism...
Two months ago in St Tropez, Parmigiani presented an entirely new line: the long-awaited Ovale collection. "It is like an artist’s technique," Michel Parmigiani said of the eye-...
In 2012, Swiss watchmakers celebrated a milestone, with export figures for watches topping the CHF20 billion mark. With a value of CHF21.4 billion, the industry grew by 10.9 per cent year-on-year...
Once again, the world’s leading watchmakers convened in Basel last month to share their latest innovation to an expectant audience. Highly complicated and jewelled pieces ruled the halls, as...
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...
In this era of bespoke dressing, making a style statement requires a bit more effort and originality. Watchmakers have realised this of course, and have readily devised a solution: why not offer...
A magician never reveals his secrets, because letting his audience know what’s behind the ruse tend to make them lose their impact. For watchmakers though, it’s quite the opposite....
The new Gouverneur line is a concentrated blend of the skills and history of Piaget. Introduced within the Black Tie collection, it reveals an exceptional horological mechanism enhanced by powerful...
A new year, a new set of watches to moon over. It seems that the exhausted Mayan calendar didn’t actually signal the end of time, but instead the beginning of a refreshing year for watchmaking...
In the past four years, Cartier has surprised and charmed even the most sceptical of watch collectors by presenting an extensive range of high watchmaking pieces, each more ingenious and...