Jacob & Co. The Astronomia Art Phoenix
WHEN INNOVATION MEANS EXTRAVAGANCE
October 2020
You have to actually handle this incredible timepiece at least once to fully appreciate its absolute extravagance.
Bovet 1822: The Brainstorm Chapter Two
WHEN INNOVATION IS A STAGE
October 2020
Back in 2016, Bovet introduced into their collections a highly innovative, asymmetric case in the shape of an antique writing slope. Here comes a new (…)
A Swiss R&D team introduces “hosted watch manufacturing”
NEW CONCEPT
October 2020
Becoming a “manufacture” is the dream of many smaller and even large watch brands hoping to differentiate themselves, especially in the middle of a global (…)
Mauron Musy: a new sealing technology
WHEN INNOVATION IS WATER-RESISTANCE
October 2020
Born as a spin-off of a Swiss sub-contractor specialising in exteriors and precision machining for watchmakers, Mauron Musy has built its reputation as much (…)
Romain Gauthier: The Insight Micro-Rotor Squelette
WHEN INNOVATION IS DECORATION
October 2020
Exactly 350 hours of anglage and polishing per watch. Or, as one of the anglage specialists at Romain Gauthier puts it, “a genuine test of mental strength. (…)
Girard-Perregaux: The Cosmos Infinity
WHEN INNOVATION MEANS TWO GLOBES
October 2020
A solar day contains 24 hours. A sidereal day, the exact measurement of celestial time, lasts 23 hours and 56 minutes. To do full justice to this minute but (…)
Urwerk: the UR-100
WHEN INNOVATION MEANS SPACE-TIME
October 2020
Let’s stay in space with the UR-100, the “fourth episode in the intergalactic saga of the 100 collection”, as Martin Frei, co-founder of Urwerk, in-house (…)
Louis Moinet: The Space Revolution
WHEN INNOVATION IS SCIENCE FICTION
October 2020
We already knew that Jean-Marie Schaller, the CEO of Louis Moinet – named after the astronomercum- watchmaker who had more or less fallen into oblivion – (…)
De Bethune: the DB28 Steel Wheels Sapphire Tourbillon
WHEN INNOVATION IS TRANSPARENCY AND LIGHTNESS
October 2020
Denis Flageollet, the founder and master watchmaker at De Bethune, has always said he takes his inspiration from classic, high-end horology while (…)
Bernhard Lederer’s Central Impulse Chronometer
WHEN INNOVATION MEANS TWO ESCAPE WHEELS
October 2020
We might as well say it straight out: it is absolutely impossible to sum up here every feature that constitutes the huge originality of the calibre 9012, (…)
Ferdinand Berthoud: the Chronomètre FB 2RE
WHEN INNOVATION MEANS COMBINATION
October 2020
The Chronomètre FB 2RE, the architecture and modular case of which are directly inspired by the Marine No. 6 clock built by the great horologist Ferdinand (…)
Greubel Forsey Balancier S
INNOVATION IN INCLINATION
October 2020
A large balance wheel measuring 12.6mm, set at 7 o’clock and inclined at an astonishing angle, immediately catches the eye. Is it inclined for purely (…)