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Bell & Ross has been passionate about aviation ever since its very beginnings, when a team of designers and aircraft control specialists began working on watches specifically made to equip professionals in the aeronautical industry. Bell & Ross’s watches were crafted in the most resistant materials and featured simple dials inspired by an airplane’s panel […]
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Today over 100,000 people from over 100 countries are crossing oceans and continents on their way to BaselWorld for the largest watch fair in the world. As Revolution’s Swiss editor my journey is only a feeble 229 km, but it doesn’t make it any the less exciting as I prepare for one of the most […]
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If you’re an avid follower of modern day show biz, you’ve surely seen celebrities around the globe wearing Jacob & Co.’s sparkling creations. Singer Alicia Keys wore the brand’s jewelry on her wedding day; rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West vastly praise the diamonds in their music; football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo recently became an ambassador of […]
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If you’re an avid follower of modern day show biz, you’ve surely seen celebrities around the globe wearing Jacob & Co.’s sparkling creations. Singer Alicia Keys wore the brand’s jewelry on her wedding day; rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West vastly praise the diamonds in their music; football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo recently became an ambassador of […]
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Fans of the BBC motoring television show, “Top Gear” will instantly recognise the phrase “How difficult can it be?”, many times uttered by hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond at the beginning of the hour long program. Oftentimes prompted by the search for a solution to a problem, this phrase then sparks off […]
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Fans of the BBC motoring television show, “Top Gear” will instantly recognise the phrase “How difficult can it be?”, many times uttered by hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond at the beginning of the hour long program. Oftentimes prompted by the search for a solution to a problem, this phrase then sparks off […]
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Purists will immediately, and rightfully, note that Black Tie as a dress code does not allow for the men to wear wristwatches. Yet those regulations come from an era in which Great Britain still had a King and every airplane a propeller. Times have changed, and so have watches. In 2011 Piaget surprised everybody by […]
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Baume & Mercier CEO Alain Zimmermann speaks to us on the new pieces from the Clifton Collection at SIHH 2014 where we see extensions to the very well received line launched last year. Among the highlights, a Flying Tourbillon, Chronograph, Retrograde Date and new Ladies watches. Interviewed by Wei Koh. Read Revolution International Digital […]
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The existence of the Tank MC Chronograph, that we will be discussing here, came under a cloud of rumours at SIHH, yet had not been officially introduced. Instead some prototypes had been shipped to boutiques world wide, bringing them under the immediate attention, and surprise, of Cartier connoisseurs world wide. The watches will however only […]
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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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Name a watch brand that doesn’t have a tourbillon in its collection? They’re still out there, but their number seems to decrease every year. Even though many brands don’t make their tourbillons in-house, it does illustrate how technically complicated movements have become more and more a part of the general landscape in the watch world, […]
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BANG! Just as Richemont’s yearly watch-party, the SIHH, was starting last week, LVMH announced the appointment of Jean-Claude Biver as head of LVMH’s watch department. The timing of this announcement was surely not chosen in vain, perhaps in a slight attempt to upstage the party of the Richemont group and the SIHH brands. This announcement […]
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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 […]
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Ressence is one of the new brands who seem to have sprouted out of nowhere with innovation burtsting from their ears. Their concept of a watch with wandering dials suspended in a fluid that refracts light like the air, so the orbiting indications appear to be on the crystal. As usual, technical information, and theRead More
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Last Friday, the 15th of November, the jury of the 13th. Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) unveiled its prize list. Quite a few independent watchmakers like Kari Voutilainen, Romain Gauthier and Benoît Mintiens, de Ressence were among the winners. Fifteen prizes honoured the year’s finest watch creations, including the supreme distinction, the “Aiguille d’Or”. […]
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The HYT watches have been making waves…yes, pun intended…with their hydro mechanical watches since they were first revealed to the horological world. I covered the first in the series, the HYT1 in these pages before. See here, and here. It was a pleasant afternoon with Vincent Perriard, CEO of HYT. These are quite rare timepieces,Read More
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Watches are a constant reminder of our own mortality. Every tick we hear, will never come back and inevitable bring us closer to the end, whatever that may be. Even one of the most successful add campaigns ever launched by a watch brand is referring to this; You never actually own a Patek Philippe. You […]
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The Reverso by Jaeger-LeCoultre –who does’nt know about this smart chic timepiece that can be turned around in its case, to protect it for oncoming golf- or tennis balls. Since 1931, the year of introduction, the Reverso collection has constantly evolved, expanded and improved. Not only with simple dial and colour variations, but also with […]
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REVOLUTION Switzerland was delighted to be the guest of IWC in Schaffhausen recently to visit the Swiss watch brand’s manufacture and museum and meet its fastest ambassador, Lewis Hamilton, MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ driver. This was the first time that Hamilton had visited IWC since the brand had become the Official Engineering Partner of […]
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As the lucky guest of Oris, Revolution Switzerland traveled to Basel to attend the 23rd RAID SWITZERLAND-PARIS. This magnificent rally of pre-1975 cars brought together enthusiasts from all over the world, eager to witness 110 old automobiles take off from the Basel Pantheon on a three-day drive to Paris. The RAID SWITZERLAND-PARIS was revived 20 […]
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JAKARTA, 30 May 2013 – A leader and a pioneer – Hublot, leading Swiss luxury watch manufacturer sets yet another series of firsts with their premiere event in Indonesia. To kick things off with a Big Bang, Hublot presented a spectacle of their stunning new collection to the Indonesian audience at a private event held at The Foundry, […]
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The surprise was unwittingly unveiled at the public relation event for the launch of the romantic short movie “Reinvent Yourself” starred by Diane Kruger. On some of the publicity images released, actress Diane Kruger was seen wearing one of the most amazing high jewellery Reverso to be launched only at the coming Shanghai Film Festival […]
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“Precision and Splendor: Clocks and Watches at the Frick Collection” is an exhibit at New York’s Frick Collection of a stunning group of priceless clocks and watches, many from the collection of Winthrop K. Edey, who bequeathed his collection of clocks and watches –which includes remarkable timepieces dating all the way back to the Renaissance […]
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Last week, I showed one of my advertisers: HYT’s H1. Please click on the link on the column left to go to their website for more infomation. Today, I feature abstract watchscapes of the same watch. The movement Click on the image for a wallpaper sized image. The bellows, magnified: Another angle for the bellows:Read More
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The H2 presents an evolution in HYT’s unique display of time, which we first saw in the 2012 H1. There is this scene in JRR Tolkien’s genre-defining tripartite novel The Lord of the Rings, when the heroes of Middle-Earth come together to discuss the insane idea of challenging Sauron before the gates of his armed-to-the-fangs […]
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