Jacob & Co. Astronomia Fleurs de Jardin Rainbow
May 2020
Long seen as a beacon of hope at the end of a storm, rainbows have prevailed throughout history as the universal symbol for optimism. Look to the future and (…)
Jacob & Co. X Bugatti Chiron Tourbillon
April 2020
Ever since the first automobiles competed for the fastest times, watches and cars have been inexorably linked. Car aficionados love watches, reveling in the (…)
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 (…)
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 While for most watchmakers, the arts and crafts perpetuate a very outdated, eighteenth-century-style (…)
TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre Heuer 02T Tourbillon Nanograph
CONVERSATION PIECES
April 2019
“R&D is about creating Substance,” - Guy Sémon speaks about the highly innovative carbon nanotube hairspring of the TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre Heuer 02T (…)
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 (…)
F.P. Journe Tourbillon Souverain Vertical
CONVERSATION PIECES
April 2019
At first glance, you might think that this tourbillon, fixed vertically in a “light shaft” pierced through the dial, is a simple choice of aesthetics, as we (…)
Chopard L.U.C Flying T Twin
CONVERSATION PIECES
April 2019
Karl-Friederich Scheufele is a man of determination and takes all the time necessary to achieve his objective. This much is evident from the gradual (…)
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 (…)
Dolce & Gabbana graduate to alta orologeria
STRATEGY
June 2017
Having divested themselves from the D&G fashion watches that were manufactured by the Binda Group, Dolce & Gabbana have moved into the high-end (…)
Hermès: less stress, more emotion
SLIM D’HERMÈS L’HEURE IMPATIENTE
March 2017
With Le Temps Suspendu, and then L’Heure Masquée, Hermès introduced us to a new way of coping with time, by suspending the inexorable march of the hands (…)
