We present you with the winners of the 0024 European Watch of the Year awards. Here’s the first winner. In category 1, Men’s watches up to €10,000 the Award goes to ... the Oris Divers Sixty-Five!
Buben & Zorweg found a way to go a step further. The Bespoke Line is both a collection and an innovative service that reduces the waiting time for tailor-made safes. The new, customised collection offers a comprehensive choice of different designs, materials and colours.
With the Armin Strom Mirrored Force Resonance the company takes up the challenge to create a highly accurate movement. If the principle of resonance is applied properly it creates a very stable motion, which results in high precision, energy savings, a large power reserve and the exclusion of negative effects on the time measuring. Shocks do affect the two balances used, but because of the resonance they quickly recover their rhytm.
Green is the new … You fill in the dots. Blue was the ‘it ‘colour at SIHH 2017 but green is also coming up strong this year with the green H. Moser & Cie., the green edition of the Oris Divers Sixty-Five Oris AND the MeisterSinger No 02 ‘Rensing green’ to prove it.
The new Tudor Pelagos is called LHD, which stands for ‘Left Hand Drive’. In other words, a ‘lefty’ that can be worn on the right wrist. Or on the left wrist, for those who don't appreciate a crown imprint in their left hand.
Yours truly was quite taken with the Da Vinci models which were presented in scenic Firenze. Not only because it has the round lines of the very first model from 1985. But also because the new Da Vinci line offers one especially good-looking Perpetual Calendar Chronograph model. A complication made by the master watchmaker Kurt Klaus in midst of severe horological crisis.
The robust image and ditto construction are very evident in the latest version, called the Chronomat 44 Blacksteel Special Edition. The name reveals the diameter of the steel case and the intensely black DLC finish.
What do you prefer: waking up to the pre-programmed tones of your smartphone or to the buzzing sound of your own watch? Jaeger- LeCoultre has made it possible since 1950, with the Memovox. The latest variant of this alarm watch is a steel version with a historically inspired dial. Unfortunately it's limited and exclusive to the ‘JLC’ boutiques. We have no trouble overlooking the fact that the watch doesn't have a snooze function.
The small and young Ateliers de Monaco, which is slowly being brought to maturity under the wings of Frédérique Constant now surprisingly wears the Poinçon de Genève seal. his Seal, coveted by many watch houses, is a guarantee of aesthetic and technical excellence.
In the watch industry there is a direct link between emotion and value. That link is invisible, vulnerable and dynamic and must be treated with the utmost care. If that emotion, the story of the maison, is no longer enthusiastically being told by enough passionate people the history that has been passed on for centuries without ever becoming boring will start to fade away.
SIHH is not a normal place. The salon is a like a secret universe inside the PalExpo. The normal world is nowhere to be seen. The De Bethune DB25L Milky Way is perfectly at home in this tiny star system.
