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The Quartz Astron Launch Seiko

Christmas Day 1969: Seiko launches the world\'s first quartz wristwatch and detonates the Swiss watch industry.

REVOLUTION EXCLUSIVE - Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Hybris Mechanica 11 (Analysis + Images + Specs + Price)

Jaeger-LeCoultre s Hybris Mechanica 11 Jan 9, 2014

REVOLUTION EXCLUSIVE - Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Hybris Mechanica 11 (Analysis + Images + Specs + Price)

Despite just having celebrated their 180th anniversary and debuted the stunning 10th timepiece in the Hybris Mechanica collection - the Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon 3 Jubilee - in 2013, Jaeger-LeCoultre are certainly not resting on their laurels, taking a well-deserved break. The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin Minute Repeater Flying Tourbillon, the 11th piece in the […]

Omega Moves Forward – New Boutiques in Taiwan and Paris

Omega Moves Forward – New Jan 9, 2014

Omega Moves Forward – New Boutiques in Taiwan and Paris

Omega has a very strong and confident belief that brand boutiques provide added value for their customers, and are perfect to communicate the brands core values and expertise. Their dedication to this retail strategy becomes clear from their rapidly expanding number of boutiques. Since the end of 2013 four new boutiques have been opened, boasting […]

Lange 31 Review: A view on its commercial achievements

Lange 31 Review: A view on its commercial achievements

A review of the Lange 31 by A Lange & Sohne

Visiting Cartier Geneva

Cartier Geneva Earlier Jan 1, 2014

Visiting Cartier Geneva

Earlier this month I had a chance to visit the in November re-opened Geneva Boutique at 35 Rue du Rhône. I remember the Boutique from last year, when it was just one of the European Boutiques, nothing more, nothing less. The change is incredible, in the period that the building was behind a facade for […]

Lange 1815 Kalenderwoche

Lange 1815 Kalenderwoche

Special 1815 Langes do not come by frequently. And one which is made with a special complication for to celebrate a retailer’s Anniversary is even more special. The Kalenderwoche, or calender week is one example. The use of week of the year, is a rather German business tool…many German business people would look up theirRead More

Piaget 900P: Cutting Edge

Piaget 900P Cutting Edge Basel Dec 16, 2013

Piaget 900P: Cutting Edge

Basel Fair, 1957; Piaget stunned the world with the introduction of Caliber 9P. The importance of this movement for Piaget cannot be stressed enough. With a diameter of 20.5mm and a thickness of just 2mm it is not only one of the “founding fathers” of Piaget’s ultra-thin tradition, but it also provided Piaget’s designers the […]

Officine Panerai Jupiterium Singapore

Panerai Jupiterium Singapore Officine Panerai’s Dec 11, 2013

Officine Panerai Jupiterium Singapore

Officine Panerai’s lauded tribute to Tuscan genius Galileo Galilei, the Panerai Jupiterium, will make its much-anticipated appearance in Singapore from December 13, 2013, to February 14, 2014. The exhibition will be unveiled at Officine Panerai’s ION Orchard boutique with an exclusive cocktail for media and VIPs and will be open to the public for the […]

Parmigiani & Pomellato; Too Sexy To Be In A Safe

The more expensive jewelry and watches become, the more likely that they will spend most of their existence in the secure confinement of a safe. When jewelry-brand Pomellato was founded in 1967 in Milan, it was determined to change this. With a playful approach towards design, combined with traditional craftsmanship, they created collections that where […]

Preview of SIHH 2014 for Panerai – PAM00557

Panerai PAM00557 Following Nov 30, 2013

Preview of SIHH 2014 for Panerai – PAM00557

Following the success of the PAM00372, Panerai has announced the left-hand (destro) version of it – PAM00557. The destro version of the PAM00372 is a watch that many avid Panerai collectors are hoping to see and own. Like all the earlier destro models, one would expect the PAM00557 to be a rather limited production model […]

Girard Perregaux Constant Escapement: extreme macros

Girard-Perregaux Nov 28, 2013

Girard Perregaux Constant Escapement: extreme macros

Girard Perregaux: a grand dame of watchmaking. Making beautiful and magnificent watches. GP is famous for their Tourbillon on Three Golden Bridges. But recently, GP shook the horological world at its roots. After centuries of the Swiss Anchor escapement, they came up a new escapement. Constant force escapement. Beautiful, magnificent. Girard Perregaux Constant Escapement: extremeRead More

Antoine Martin Slowrunner: Awesome!

Antoine Martin Slowrunner: Awesome!

The slowest escapement ever made: beating at 1 Hz. The Slowrunner by Antoine Martin. The brand is now defunct, but the watch still holds record for being the ultimate slow beater.

SIHH 2014 – Cartier Pre Announced New Tortue Models

Cartier Pre Announced New Tortue Nov 25, 2013

SIHH 2014 – Cartier Pre Announced New Tortue Models

Cartier just pre announced for 2014, four new Tortue ladies models in pink- and in white gold. The Tortue that just had its 100 anniversary was originally designed as a mens model in 1912 and was throughout the years available in fairly small collections. Now this legendary and elegant model will get a major update. […]

Why Chopard Doesn’t Go Fast, But Superfast!

Chopard Doesn’t Go Fast But Nov 21, 2013

Why Chopard Doesn’t Go Fast, But Superfast!

They have been doing it for a while and they arguably get better at it time after time. Chopard has really locked it’s connection to the world of high performance cars into its DNA. Unlike many other brands does Chopard not limit it’s love to a single car brand or race car driver, but do […]

Milestones: Two Centuries, Two Breguet Tourbillon Pocket Watches

Breguet Tourbillon Pocket Watches Nov 18, 2013

Milestones: Two Centuries, Two Breguet Tourbillon Pocket Watches

On November 11th we were lucky enough to attend the opening of the exhibition, “Breguet The Innovator: Inventor Of The Tourbillon,” (which ran from November 11-17 at the 5th Avenue boutique in New York) –a traveling round up of Breguet tourbillons that included virtually every modern tourbillon the company makes today, as well as a […]

Gucci Timepieces Artisan Corner

Gucci Timepieces Artisan Corner

After being showcased at BaselWorld 2013, Gucci Timepieces Artisan Corner traveled to Geneva to demonstrate how the brand’s 1921 and Bamboo collections are created. One of Gucci’s talented craftsmen was present throughout the evening to explain how he crafts both collections with either leather or bamboo. Gucci Bamboo Collection The Bamboo timepiece is made out of a […]

Cartier Ballon Bleu; Three Times A Lady

Cartier Ballon Bleu Three Times Nov 13, 2013

Cartier Ballon Bleu; Three Times A Lady

The Ballon bleu that Cartier only launched almost eight years ago, is one of Cartier’s newest models and the one that actually became a huge success worldwide, in a very short time. Presented as a unisex model, with some really masculine pieces like the Chronograph and the Tourbillon models too, the Ballon bleu was from […]

Piaget Polo Chronograph; A Contemporary Classic

Piaget Polo Chronograph Nov 7, 2013

Piaget Polo Chronograph; A Contemporary Classic

Sometimes a watch manufacturer releases a model that seems to catch the spirit of the market so well, that it transcends to the status of an icon. Such a thing happened for Piaget in 1979, when they first introduced the Piaget Polo. This all gold watch with integrated bracelet, captured, as no other watch, the luxurious and […]

Christophe Claret Goes Back In Time

Christophe Claret Nov 3, 2013

Christophe Claret Goes Back In Time

Watchmaker Christophe Claret has chosen to play with a different perception of time in his latest project-a historical and archeological movie produced in collaboration with the film production company NVP3D. Through a 3D documentary, Christophe Claret and NVP3D’s Director Philippe Nicolet take the audience 2,000 years back in time to feature the amazingly rich patrimony […]

Harry Winston Opus 5

Urwerk Oct 31, 2013

Harry Winston Opus 5

The Opus project by Harry Winston features many watches with important horological features. I feature one of my favourite Opus projets, the Opus V, by Felix Baumgartner of Urwerk. Quite a superb piece. Photographed here during the Antiquorum preview in Singapore. The caseback

Ulysse Nardin Gengis Khan

Ulysse Nardin Gengis Khan DEPLOYANT - Oct 24, 2013

Ulysse Nardin Gengis Khan

Quick shot Friday focusses on the ultra high end Ulysse Nardin Gengis Khan Jacquetmart Minute Repeater Tourbillon with diamonds. I had the opportunity to see this piece at L’Atelier by The Hour Glass recently. A cool S$1.17 million on the wrist. Nicely finished…the Jacquetmart automata moves in sync with each strike. The watch strikes theRead More

F. P. Journe Announces Special 30th Anniversary Tourbillon Limited Edition

Breguet Janvier Le Roy F Oct 18, 2013

F. P. Journe Announces Special 30th Anniversary Tourbillon Limited Edition

There is no watchmaker, independent or otherwise, quite like Francois Paul Journe –a notable iconoclast; famously perfectionistic; famously idiosyncratic in approach; famously irascible; a man who sees himself as the spiritual heir to the great French watchmaking traditions and masters of the late 18th and early 19th century –Berthoud, Breguet, Janvier, Le Roy. F. P. […]

Jaeger LeCoultre Hybris Mechanica Grande Sonnerie

JLC Gyrotourbillon 2 Oct 17, 2013

Jaeger LeCoultre Hybris Mechanica Grande Sonnerie

The JLC Gyrotourbillon 2 is an amazing watch, but for me, the Hybris Mechanical Grande Sonnerie is even more amazing. As usual, specifications can easily be googled, so readers are encouraged to do so, but I try and show the watch in its beauty, from a collector’s eye, hopefully with photographs which will stir theRead More

Richard Mille Premieres New Material In Watchmaking - Again!

Richard Mille Premieres New Material Oct 17, 2013

Richard Mille Premieres New Material In Watchmaking - Again!

The Swiss purveyors of high-end, stratospherically priced timepieces clad in space-age materials - otherwise known as the good folks of team Richard Mille - have introduced the RM 011 in a new type of carbon composite. Instead of bonding sheets of woven carbon fibre strips together (resulting in that basket weave pattern we’re all familiar […]

JLC Gyrotourbillon 2

JLC Gyrotourbillon 2 DEPLOYANT - Oct 14, 2013

JLC Gyrotourbillon 2

The Jaeger LeCoultre Gyrotourbillon series is now nearing the completion…with the release of the Gyro3 this year. But the piece which still keeps its special place in my mind is the Gyro2. Round like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending on beginning On an ever-spinning reel Not onlyRead More

George Daniels: A Master Watchmaker and His Art - A Review

Omega timepieces Oct 11, 2013

George Daniels: A Master Watchmaker and His Art - A Review

When the name of George Daniels comes to mind, most people with at least some knowledge of the development of modern watchmaking will immediately connect the name with the co-axial escapement that inhabits a growing percentage of Omega timepieces. The Daniels-invented co-axial escapement is one of the cornerstones of Omega’s watchmaking expertise and the rights […]

Philippe Dufour Grande Sonnerie

Philippe Dufour Grande Sonnerie

The super grail watch, perhaps of all time. The Dufour Grande Sonnerie, in white gold, with a sapphire crystal dial. Philippe Dufour Grande Sonnerie In this configuration, a piece unique. Beyond words, which become superflous. But allow me to try and express my joy of being sble to photograph and handle this legendary piece. TheRead More

In Conversation With Marc Gläser, Maurice Lacroix MD

Maurice Lacroix MD Marc Gläser Maurice Oct 9, 2013

In Conversation With Marc Gläser, Maurice Lacroix MD

Marc Gläser, Maurice Lacroix’s Managing Director, talks to Revolution Switzerland’s Sophie Furley about why he left the company and came back, and how, with the help of a new owner and an amazing team, he is taking the watch industry by storm with an impressive manufacture, new distribution and a passion for design. REVOLUTION: When […]

Grandmasters of watchmaking: Roger Smith

Grandmasters of watchmaking: Roger Smith

Then comes the modest Englishman. A devout follower of the late great George Daniels, Roger Smith is committed to make the entire watch, by hand, just as they did a hundred or more years ago. Rather elusive, as he is domicile in Isle of Man, but an effable gentleman. As he knew I had aRead More

Two Horological Legends Meet – Angelo Bonati and Alan Bloore

Panerai Oct 5, 2013

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 […]

Grandmasters of Watchmaking: Portrait of Kari Voutilainen

Voutilainen Oct 3, 2013

Grandmasters of Watchmaking: Portrait of Kari Voutilainen

Continuing on the series on Watchmaking Grandmasters, today I feature the enigmatic Kari Voutilainen. Kari has a keen eye and a wicked, wry sense of humour. In other words, a barrel of fun. Seen here enjoying a joke with Philippe Dufour. Seconds later…posing for the camera A formal portrait pose… For Tues, I will featureRead More