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Review: First hands-on look at the Tag Heuer Connected
First hands-on look at the Tag Heuer Connected Smart Watch. Does it bring high technology to the traditional Swiss watchmaking, or vice versa?
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Pre-SIHH 2016: H. Moser & Cie. Endeavour Perpetual Calendar Concept
Not too long back, we have done a review article on the thought-provoking Endeavour Concept Watch. The Endeavour Concept Watch is a timepiece that is completely devoid of any details on the dial, with the watch face featuring only the watchmaker’s signature fumé sunburst dial with three watch hands. Following that, H. Moser & Cie. had decidedRead More
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Market analysis: The maturing Chinese consumer
The Chinese Consumer is changing. Gone are the days when shoppers flocked to gaudy and bling items with visible branding all over them. One can imagine that the Chinese consumer is becoming more sophisticated. They are now looking for less 'in-the-face' items but more subtle forms of materialism.
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Piaget And The Art Of Diamonds
Setting a watch with diamonds is by no means an easy task. Especially when you talk about high jewellery, or Haute Joaillerie, watch things become very complicated. It is there where the design phase of these watches is critical. Here, a designer not only determines which type of setting he wants to see, but also if […]
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Rare Watches: Cabestan Saturnera piece unique
Review of the piece unique Cabestan Saturnera with hands on analysis. Featuring a real time, revolving Saturn within a fusee chain vertical tourbillon mvt.
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Review: Leroy Chronomètre à Tourbillon
Review Leroy Chronomètre à Tourbillon with commentary and live photographs from BaselWorld 2015 fusée chain hunter case back
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Review of Tudor North Flag from Baselworld 2015
Deployant reviews the new Tudor North Flag from Baselworld 2015. Find out our views on this entry level timepiece!
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Baselworld 2015: Live Pics of the Tudor North Flag – Even Better In The Flesh!
We wrote about the new Tudor North Flag this morning courtesy of Jack Forster, our Revolution USA Editor. This is a stunning watch at a great price point, and certainly is evidence of Tudor doing the right thing yet again this year. Here are some live pictures we shot today, and the watch truly is more […]
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Angelus is Back!
If you know vintage watches, you know Angelus. Manufacture La Joux-Perret is reviving the brand, and the first new watch is sure to be a surprise. To many collectors, Angelus is best known as a creator of great-looking chronographs and multi-complication watches, especially chronographs with date, day and moon phase displays. The brand’s notable firsts […]
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Alpina Launches Comtesse Lady Collection with Top Skier Tina Maze
Founded in 1883, Alpina is an independent, family-owned pioneer in the field of Swiss sports watches. Embracing that heritage, the brand teamed up with world-renowned, multi-gold-medal-winning skier Tina Maze to launch its new Comtesse Lady line during the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Vail, Colorado, which concluded February 15. Alpina first launched its Comtesse […]
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SIHH 2015: The Jaeger-LeCoultre Duomètre Sphérotourbillon Moon
The moon phase is a beautiful reminder of an age before time was ruled by gears, crystals and atoms. Yet the moon phase also reminds that though our timekeepers may achieve aesthetic perfection, they will always struggle to keep pace with the imperfect universe we inhabit. The challenge posed by the moon arises from the […]
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SIHH 2015: IWC Portugieser Grande Complication
It has been 75 years since the Portugieser collection was launched, and IWC had decided to mark this milestone by giving the Portugieser Grande Complication a face-lift. Subtle changes were made to this flagship model, to give it a more subtle and contemporary image. In terms of aesthetics, there has been several changes to theRead More
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SIHH 2015: Jaeger LeCoultre Master Grande Tradition Grande Complication
While it revives the 19th century codes of elegance and virtuosity, the Master Grande Tradition line by Jaeger-LeCoultre first and foremost reflects the spirit of this brilliant age. The latter was characterised by a distinctive fervour nurtured by the fact that anything that was mechanically measurable could now be displayed. Complications were associated in waysRead More
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SIHH 2015: Lange novelties – Datograph Ab/Auf in pink gold, Datograph Perpetual in white gold, Lange 1 and Saxonias
The crop of novelties from Lange this year is quite large. We have already covered the two major pieces viz the Lange 1 Tourbillon Handwerkskundst in December, and the Lange Zeitwerk Minute Repeater. Here we cover the rest of the novelties.
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Pre SIHH: Cartier Introduces The Crash Skeleton Limited Edition With Shaped Manufacture Movement
There are several pieces of apocrypha circulating about the genesis of the Cartier Crash. By some accounts, it was inspired by a watch that a Cartier London customer had brought in for servicing, a watch that had been involved in a traffic accident. Another story tells of how the vice president of Cartier London himself […]
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Piaget 1200E: A Trapeze Act In Enamel
It is indeed breathtaking when trapeze artists perform their daring acts high above the crowds in the circus tent. No safety lines, just a full confidence in their own ability to perform on the edge of what is humanly possible. These skills are often the result of being born into them, practicing relentlessly from a […]
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BaselWorld 2014: Belles of the fair
Each year, BaselWorld 2014 is a frantic, mad struggle to make all the appointments to bring you the first hand news and views of the novelties. As we rush about the fair grounds, we are entertained by these non-horological eye candies. These lovely ladies, dressed a bit rediculously with their shiny, pixlated berets were presentRead More
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Baselworld 2014: Blancpain Carrousel Phases de Lune – The Sophistication Of Signature Complications United In Elegance
Ever since the resurrection of Blancpain by Biver and Piguet in the 1980’s, the moon has played an important part in the history of the brand. Their first full calendar model with moon phase was a classical beauty, whose legacy lives on until today. The same can be said for the carrousel (karrussel) that Blancpain […]
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Top 10 Watches To Make Up For Missing Valentine’s Day
Let’s face it - you’re here because you forgot Valentine’s Day and are currently feeling an uncomfortable kinship with the proverbial frog in a pot (rather alarmingly already at level “onsen”). Never fear, because we heard your cry of panic and anguish from afar and have put our “Save The Day For REVOLUTIONaries In Need” […]
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Review of the Zenith Academy Christophe Colomb Hurricane
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Cartier’s Tank Anglaise Steel on Steel, will arrive in the Boutiques this week!
While it is only a few weeks that Cartier’s Tank MC arrived in the Boutiques and AD’s, the masculine Tank will face some competition from it’s brother the Tank Anglaise. The Tank Anglaise was released in gold in November 2012 and followed up by the very good looking version in steel pink gold. We did […]
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Two Horological Legends Meet – Angelo Bonati and Alan Bloore
On October 4th, 2013 two legends of the watch world met for the first time face to face after a decade and a half long relationship on the internet. Angelo Bonati, the CEO and guiding father of Panerai and Alan Bloore, also known by his internet handle Hammer, one of the world’s greatest authorities on […]
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Eterna and the Wimbledon of the Alps
REVOLUTION SWITZERLAND’s team joined Eterna recently for the Crédit Agricole Suisse Open Gstaad tennis tournament in the Bernese Alps where some of tennis’ big international names came to play on the high-altitude clay courts. On the program, three Swiss tennis men-Roger Federer, Stanislas Wawrinka and Marco Chiudinelli-all played and lost, leaving Russia’s Mikhail Youzhny to […]
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The Mesmerizing, Mysterious, Maddening Rudis Sylva Harmonious Oscillator
When we first heard of the Rudis Sylva Harmonious Oscillator at REVOLUTION we were pretty skeptical as it seems to fly in the face of one of the most sacred of all horological commandments: Thou shalt not mess with the oscillator. The Harmonious Oscillator is one of a still somewhat small family of complications which try […]
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BaselWorld 2013: TAG Heuer’s Tech Guru Guy Semon Introduces The MikropendulumS
Superlatives are tricky things but we feel safe in saying the MikropendulumS, a new concept watch from TAG Heuer, and developed by their Vice President of Science and Engineering Guy Semon and his R&D; team, is perhaps the most radical departure from conventional watchmaking solutions we’ve seen yet, keeping company with such bleeding edge experiments […]
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Cartier announced the Microsculpture Scène Panthères Watch
Not presented at the SIHH in Geneva last January, but announced today, is the Microsculpture scène Panthères watch. A spectacular jewellery tourbillon watch in a white gold, rhodiumised white gold case, set with 247 brilliants for 6.52 carats. The manual winding, in house developed flying tourbillon, calibre 9458 is Geneva Seal qualified. Water resistance is […]
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The Logical One by Romain Gauthier.
The Logical One features a triple patent-pending flat chain-and-fusee style constant force system developed by Romain Gauthier. He was in Singapore last week to present this amazing watch to collectors and members of the media. The Constant force system ensures more reliable and accurate timing for this timepiece. A standard fusse chain design uses muti-layer […]
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Glashütte Original Debuts Senator Panorama Date And Senator Panorama Date Moonphase Watches
Dear all, I’m very pleased to show two new editions of the Senator. Glashütte Original continues to engage with the art of design, presenting quintessential expressions of the manufactory: the Senator Panorama Date and Senator Panorama Date Moon Phase. The in-house design team of Glashütte Original made a number of changes to achieve a stunning new look that is both […]
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GTE 2013: Heritage Watch Manufactory’s Tensus
Taking place at the same time, in the same city as the SIHH is the Geneva Time Exhibition…GTE…a collection of sometimes interesting group of watchmakers, often smaller manufactures and independents who take advantage of the big SIHH show to draw crowds who are already in Geneva. Starting 1 day earlier, on a Sunday, when mostRead More
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Vincent Calabrese, Initiator of Golden Bridge Movement Signs With Corum
The “baguette” isn’t some fancy way of calling french bread loaves, to the mechanically inclined, it is the namesake of the oblong shape of baguette movements. Though the concept was first introduced in 1929 care of Jaeger-LeCoulture caliber 101, it was Corum who recently brought the movement back into popular consciousness thanks to a patent […]