The Tempus Fugit project: time flies with no return
January 2023
As everyone knows, but tries not to think about, our time will one day run out. That is written into our DNA. It was handed down to us from our ancestors (…)
AIS Collective, a Swiss start-up taking care of watches
PORTRAIT
September 2022
The ChronoPen designed by the young brand and already distributed by Seddiqi and Hodinkee is a tool for cleaning water resistant watches. Other products are (…)
The accelerating race for new materials
July 2022
In an industry dominated by age-old know-how, the introduction of new materials has accelerated in the 21st century. Almost every year, new alloys and (…)
Octo Finissimo Ultra: how Bulgari broke an eighth record
June 2022
The model is only 1.80 mm thick from the caseback to the top of the sapphire crystal – as thin as a 20 cent coin. On the 10th anniversary of the Octo (…)
Sapphire: the quest for transparency
INNOVATION
January 2022
Sapphire, used in watchmaking for almost a century, has become a high-tech material in its synthetic form. In an era of transparency, it is increasingly (…)
Displays: watches in ethereal suspension
INNOVATION
January 2022
The young “promotional magic” company Levita has just won one of the six 2021 Luxury Innovation Awards at the Luxury Innovation Summit held in Geneva at the (…)
Innovation: the lifeblood of watchmaking
REPORT
January 2022
Innovation doesn’t start with a blank page. It’s a historical accumulation – each successive stage building on the ones that came before. In watchmaking, (…)
The CSEM brings life to the dial
INNOVATION
January 2022
The use of a silicon module on the dial makes it possible to imagine a multitude of animations of the watch face. This technology developed in the CSEM (…)
Recycling self-luminous watches
INNOVATION
January 2022
Swiss microtechnology company mb-microtec is the inventor of a self-powered illumination technology called “trigalight”, used in watches. It has set up a (…)
Swatch’s new plastic
INNOVATION
December 2021
In 2020, Swatch began converting its collections to use a new bio-sourced plastic derived from castor oil. This new plastic is also combined with ceramic to (…)
Decoration: a new rainbow PVD
INNOVATION
December 2021
Swiss company Positive Coating has introduced a world first: colour gradients for watch components. A striking demonstration of this innovation can be found (…)
Breguet’s flexible hands: when innovation becomes poetry
REINE DE NAPLES
December 2021
Watch hands are rigid by nature and describe a perfect circle. And so the first watches were quite naturally round and the vast majority of them are still (…)
