Are groups compatible with Baselworld?
THE FAIR TRADE
February 2020
It’s not all about coronavirus... Swatch Group’s decision to leave Baselworld is in line with a fundamental trend: after grappling with the production chain (…)
SIHH evolves into Watches & Wonders
NEW NAME AND NEW CONCEPT FOR 2020
October 2019
For its 30th edition in April 2020 in Geneva, Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) changes its name to Watches & Wonders and presents a new (…)
Vacheron Constantin Twin Beat
CONVERSATION PIECES
June 2019
A perpetual calendar is meant to show at least the hours, minutes, date, month and leap years up to 2100, theoretically without human intervention. Except (…)
The great scattering
OPINION
April 2019
The watchmaking industry shoots at hoot and slide, and everyone starts to play in their own corner. My living room, my exhibition, my summit, my meetings. A (…)
Richard Mille Bonbon Collection
CONVERSATION PIECES
April 2019
What a diabolically clever man, this Richard Mille. While for most watchmakers, the arts and crafts perpetuate a very outdated, eighteenth-century-style (…)
Bovet 1822 Récital 26 Brainstorm® Chapter One
CONVERSATION PIECES
April 2019
Watches are designed to write the time before our very eyes. So why not base its shape on a writing slope?
Jaeger-Lecoultre Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpétuel
CONVERSATION PIECES
April 2019
Jaeger-LeCoultre gets straight to the point: “We have created a truly wearable Gyrotourbillon, bringing high complication out of the watch safe and onto the (…)
Hermès Arceau L’heure De La Lune
CONVERSATION PIECES
April 2019
With its Le temps suspendu watch in particular, which has become uniquely emblematic of a manner of playing poetically and philosophically with the very (…)
Basel and Geneva play a game of go
EDITORIAL
March 2019
The recent announcement that, in 2020, the dates of the SIHH and Baselworld will basically coincide, is just the latest salvo in a protracted territorial (…)
The Controversial Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet
GUEST COLUMN
February 2019
The Independent giant’s most significant launch since the Royal Oak was met with an initial outcry from the watch community. Is it a clever strategic move (…)
SIHH 2019 Insights: Danny Govberg, CEO WatchBox
January 2019
Creating a new standard in the world of the pre-owned watches is the main goal for WatchBox CEO Danny Govberg. Buying, selling and trading luxury timepieces (…)
SIHH 2019 Insights: Goeffroy Lefebvre, CEO Baume & Mercier
January 2019
Aiming to bring more readability and legitimacy to Baume & Mercier, this year, Goeffroy Lefebvre and his team is extending only two brand lines and he (…)
