Jaeger-LeCoultre Special - Master Ultra Thin - Minute Repeater Flying Tourbillon
SIHH 2014
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF FINE WATCHMAKING - Birth of a new challenge: Ultra-thin grand complications
The Swiss watchmaking industry’s POKER RISK
February 2014
The combination of computer-aided design, high-precision machining on increasingly powerful multi-axis CNC machines, high-tech materials science and… the (…)
LAKIN@LARGE - You’re CRACKERS M’LORD
February 2014
Once a year, around Christmas, is usually enough for me. I know many Americans do it at Thanksgiving, but it’s a yuletide event for me. However, this (…)
SIHH 2014 - RICHEMONT TO INVEST 300 million Swiss francs this year
February 2014
The following interview with Richard Lepeu and Bernard Fornas, co-CEOs of Richemont, by Bastien Buss was published in French in the Swiss newspaper Le (…)
SIHH 2014 - ASTRONOMICAL SUMS
February 2014
If 2013 was in many respects the “year of the métiers d’art”, the SIHH 2014 placed the coming year under the auspices of astronomy. What could be more (…)
SIHH 2014 - The “Lambertisation” of MONTBLANC
February 2014
Jérôme Lambert, the former CEO of Jaeger-LeCoultre and A. Lange & Söhne, has been at the helm of Montblanc for barely six months but the impact of his (…)
SIHH 2014 - A feminine offensive at RICHARD MILLE
February 2014
Richard Mille has decreed that 2014 is the “Year of the Woman” by presenting a series of new timepieces that play subtly with the three dimensionality of (…)
SIHH 2014 - PRACTICAL COMPLICATIONS for the discerning collector
February 2014
Could this be the year of the practical complication? In addition to some ingenious interpretations of astronomical themes, there seemed to be a focus on (…)
SIHH 2014 - DIVER’S WATCH REDUX
February 2014
Fans of divers watches were well-served at this year’s SIHH. In addition to the classic styling of Cartier’s first ever diver’s watch, brands with a strong (…)
SIHH 2014 - LADIES WATCHES - New crafts and OLD FAVOURITES
February 2014
The lavish use of diamonds remains one of the best ways to glam-up a ladies’ timepiece and the more diamonds used, and the more complicated their different (…)
GENEVA SHOWS - IN THE GRAND HOTELS... De Bethune, F.P. Journe, Hublot, Christophe Claret
February 2014
While the great mass of high-end watchmaking was being held at the SIHH, not far from Geneva airport, you had to wander around the grand hotels along the (…)
GENEVA SHOWS - DE BETHUNE at the summit
February 2014
One of the most brilliant demonstrations of a combined horological and aesthetic excellence can be found at De Bethune. The association between the (…)
