Ice-watch: collections, partnerships and talk of marriage
BASELWORLD 2018
April 2018
Having discovered the new Ice Ola Kids, Ice Sunset and City Sunset collections of watches, out of the blue, so to speak, Jean-Pierre Lutgen produces a (…)
When I was old… A nostalgic trip down memory lane
FREELY SPEAKING
March 2018
My first trip to Basel was to visit the European Watch and Jewellery Fair. It was 1979 and I’d just been employed as a magazine editor for a company in (…)
Good, better, best
WATCHWORDS
March 2018
Superlatives are the meat and potatoes of watch advertising copy. That shiny new timepiece, whether it rolled off a production line in Shenzhen or emerged (…)
Recommended reading
March 2018
Have time, will travel
EDITORIAL
March 2018
Watchmakers did not need Einstein to intuitively understand that time and space are closely associated, like the two faces of the same coin. Their art was (…)
Recommended reading
WATCHPRINT
October 2017
THE WATCH BOOK: ROLEX by Gisbert L. Brunner WATCH ADS 1900-1959 By Marco Strazzi TIME AND A LIFETIME By Vincent Calabrese
Jewellery and the new ways of wearing it
TRENDS
June 2017
Nowadays, adornments for the ears and fingers are teaching us a thing or two about our anatomy. For a long time, our phalanges held no fascination for us, (…)
Digital bespoke
INTERNET
June 2017
More and more luxury brands are offering online customisation, but each in their own different way. We look at two interesting examples.
Watch auctions: three decades of a legend.
HISTORY. PART I
June 2017
In the early 90s, watches at auction could only be found among the general objects to come under the hammer at non-specialist sales. We take a look back in (…)
AUREL BACS : A COLLECTOR OF SUPERLATIVES
Aurel Bacs has put his stamp on today’s auction world with his record-beating sales. What hidden mechanisms are at work behind these skyrocketing sales (…)
RESURRECTING ANTIQUORUM:
ROMAIN REA’S TRICKY TASK
Despite being the first house to launch thematic auctions devoted to watchmaking under the impetus of the charismatic Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum has seen (…)
Recommended reading
WATCHPRINT
June 2017
BREGUET: Watchmakers since 1775 By Emmanuel Breguet OMEGA - Moonwatch Only: 60 years of Speedmaster by Grégoire Rossier and Anthony Marquié PATEK PHILIPPE: (…)
