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The Cape Cod Watch by Hermès
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February
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Just as each season brings its palette of colours, Cape Cod treats the strap of its small model to a choice of two new shades.
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Swiss Watch Exports in 2011 - Record Year
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February
2012
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Watch exports reached a very high level in 2011, creating a new landmark in their remarkable growth over recent years. With exports of nearly 19.3 billion francs, Swiss watchmakers exceeded their previous annual result by 19.2%. Except for 2010, which followed a major downturn, growth in the last 20 years has never been so strong.
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Milano by Jacques Lemans
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February
2012
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Austrian brand Jacques Lemans presents a whole new collection for 2012 under the name Milano. The sporty watches combine high-grade materials with the attention to detail characteristic of Jacques Lemans watches.
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Record level of registrations for the 2012 edition of the EPHJ-EPMT-SMT Show
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February
2012
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Four months before its opening, the EPHJ-EPMT-SMT Show records a level of registrations higher than the 2011 edition with already 600 exhibitors who have officially confirmed their participation.
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Louis Moinet’s Jules Verne Instrument III
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February
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Louis Moinet presents its new model, the Jules Verne Instrument III, inspired by the eponymous author’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea novel published in 1869.
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Swatch Group - 2011 Key Figures
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February
2012
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Following publication of sales figures on 10 January 2012, Swatch Group now presents the Group’s key figures. This advance information will be followed by the distribution and discussion of the detailed annual report
at the press conference scheduled for 1 March 2012.
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The Rolex Hillary Tenzing Edition package
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February
2012
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In acknowledgement of Rolex’s position at the forefront of exploration and expeditions, the Hillary Tenzing Edition package features as its centrepiece three Rolex Explorer models with a personalised vintage Hillary Tenzing Edition (HTE) look and feel.
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Artcurial Auction: the Rise of Bell & Ross’ Watch Quote
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February
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The famous French Auction House Artcurial, organized an exceptional sale of aeronautical objects. The sale, named “Aeronautics, the Air and Space Conquest” took place within the prestigious Hotel Dassault.
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Sea-Gull’s new factory
The Chinese are like big kids, always in a hurry to build the framework of what we might call “Modern China”. With more or less competency, they produce everything, from vuvuzelas to space stations.
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CHANEL, The Great White
Gold is yellow, pink, white, and sometimes even has a blue tint. Platinum is pale grey with a Nordic glow. Steel comes in a more intense grey with a vivid brilliance. But, there is no mineral or alloy in nature that is white, pure and intensely white.
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Marketing and the Asian Dream
After considering themes such as “The watch user in a changing world” (2009) and “Watchmaking and its ambassadors” (2010), this year’s international watch marketing day, which was held at the Théâtre de l’Heure Bleue in La Chaux-de-Fonds on November 3rd, looked at the “Asian Dream”.
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Belles Montres Shanghai
Following on the success of Belles Montres in Paris, the organisers opened the first Belles Montres in Shanghai, China from October 26 - 30.
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The rebirth of Roger Dubuis
Roger Dubuis, now a part of the Richemont Group, as a brand and a movement manufacturer, is poised to be relaunched, with Georges Kern supervising the brand and Jean-Marc Pontroué set to take over the reins officially as CEO from next year.
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Piaget thinks thin again
Well known for its world records in extremely thin watches, Piaget has done it again with the Piaget Altiplano Skeleton Ultra-Thin.
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Parmigiani - Telescopic time
We all know well the activities of Parmigiani’s restoration workshops, since Michel Parmigiani himself passed by the great school of restoration, and is also responsible for the fabulous collection of timepieces belonging to the Sandoz Family Foundation, a major shareholder in the Parmigiani brand.
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MB&F’s M.A.D. Gallery
The first thing that passers-by notice in MB&F’s new M.A.D. Gallery is “Palette”, who looks at first sight light a shop dummy. But anyone who walks in front of “her” or stops at the nearby machine to pay for their parking quickly does a double-take, because she is in fact a highly complex robot capable of interacting with people and learning which of her gestures and movements provoke the best responses.
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Frédérique Constant Vintage Racing
For quite some time, Geneva-based Frédérique Constant has been affiliated with vintage racing, first with Austin Healeys and most recently with La Carrera Panamericana, the legendary Mexican race that is eagerly watched by millions of classic car aficionados.
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Tissot’s Logistics Centre
Nestled in the hills surrounding Le Locle, in the very heart of the Swiss watchmaking country, Tissot, which has been in business since 1858, just inaugurated perhaps the most technologically-advanced storage and retrieval system in the entire watch industry
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UR-1001 Zeit Device, the mother ship
The very imposing UR-1001 Zeit Device condenses the last fifteen years of experimentation conducted by Urwerk into a time-measuring object with more than generous dimensions and ample weight. It is neither a wristwatch nor is it a traditional pocket watch—unless you have a solidly re-inforced pocket. “It is,” as Felix Baumgartner says with a smile, “the Mother of all other watches, the Mother Ship of all the space shuttles that make up the Urwerk timekeeping fleet.”
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