The oscillator of the new Zenith Defy Lab, perfected by Guy Sémon, CEO of TAG Heuer and of the LVMH Watch Division’s R&D Institute, and his team of (…)

Hybrid designs combining mechanics and electronics is one path being explored in chronometric watchmaking. But beyond precision, hybridisation may also be a (…)

Mechanical watches are currently accurate enough to satisfy our everyday needs for precision. Their appeal lies elsewhere. Innovation is not so much a (…)

Watchmakers tried, prototyped, disassembled, reassembled and tweaked until it worked – like clockwork. That was then. Now, watchmaking no longer revolves (…)

The Swissmatic calibre supplied to Tissot by ETA is allowing the former to break through new price barriers in mechanical watchmaking. And without (…)

Positioning itself as an alternative to Nivarox as a supplier of regulating organs, Atokalpa intends to offer “supply security” in relation to its great (…)

Nano is watchmaking’s next frontier. For a number of years now, watchmakers’ R&D departments have been exploring this promising new territory. Greubel (…)

Less than 40 grams. That’s eight sheets of standard A4 paper, or two small slices of bread. At 39.55 grams, the RM 50-03 McLaren-F1 is quite simply the (…)

The surprising collaboration between Bovet and the Turinese designers at Pininfarina delivers a new opus: the Ottantasei. A fourth tourbillon for which the (…)