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Breitling has a lady on its side: Edith Bosch

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Breitling is known for its aviation timepieces with a tough and masculine look and highly accurate performance. But it’s not always about men and their watches. This summer, the maison fell for the charms of the Dutch judoka Edith Bosch. After a brief summer fling, Breitling and Edith officially announced their relationship on August 1st: the former judoka is Breitling’s new Friend of the Brand.
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Models

Jaquet Droz The Charming Bird

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The fact that watchmakers revel in ‘the more complications per square centimeter the better’ isn't news to anyone. But the 2016 edition of Jaquet Droz’ The Charming Bird is a masterful performance at micro level. The brand debuted an initial version with the complication in 2013 and made the official introduction in 2015. The 2016 variant is limited to 16 pieces, eight in white gold and eight in red gold.
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Interviews

Montblanc’s mighty watch men: Watch Division Director Davide Cerrato

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From idea to watch. This realisation is a process in which the CEO, the Watch Division Director, the Creative Director and the Ambassador step onto the stage and play a leading role with devotion, dedication and love. These past four years a lot has happened and changed at Montblanc when it comes to watches. 0024 WatchWorld talked to four initiators of these changes. In this episodes: Watch Division Director Davide Cerrato
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Montblanc’s mighty watch men: CEO Jerôme Lambert

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From idea to watch. This realisation is a process in which the CEO, the Watch Division Director, the Creative Director and the Ambassador step onto the stage and play a leading role with devotion, dedication and love. These past four years a lot has happened and changed at Montblanc when it comes to watches. 0024 WatchWorld talked to four initiators of these changes. In this first of four episodes: CEO Jerôme Lambert.
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Anonimo is back with a bang

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After being bought up in 2013, Anonimo is now pursuing new lines of development in Switzerland. The collectionhas been reworked to bring out more of cohesion, and its manufacture now meets Swiss Made criteria. So Anonimo watches are now a combination of Swiss precision and Italian style. The watches are characterized by a stringent, elaborate yet functional design, heavily influenced by professional watches that used to be produced on the banks of the Arno for submariners and combat divers from the Marina Militare. The dials are free from irrelevant details, in order to remain legible under all circumstances.
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Urban Jürgensen Reference 1741 Platinum

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Jürgen Jürgensen is the undisputed king and godfather of watchmaking in Denmark. In 1798 for instance he travelled to Paris to study with Abraham-Louis Breguet, in 1801 he built a remarkable bimetallic thermometer and after that he started to create very precise chronometers. The Jürgensen watch dynasty ended in 1912 with the death of the last Jürgensen but the company stayed alive and went abroad to Switzerland. In 2014 the ownership returned to Danish hands and with CEO Søren J. Petersen at the helm Urban Jürgensen moves into the future.
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Editor's opinion

Primary colours, primal love

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Let’s go back to the late 1980s when Frenchman Alain Silberstein decides to give up his job as an interior designer to start his own watch brand together with his wife, Sylvie. Silberstein’s watches are like birds of paradise among sparrows. Primary colours and clear geometric shapes, that reflect some of the Bauhaus philosophy as well, are the foundation of his watches. In-your-face watches that you either love or hate.
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Market Scan

What is the most popular Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso?

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The use of the brand name in the title was superfluous, really. Reverso is Jaeger-LeCoultre and vice versa. According to Jaeger-LeCoultre’s International Marketing Director, Stéphane Belmont, the Reverso name is even stronger than the name of the maison. The Reverso has been a unique notion since 1931, but which Reverso do people search for the most, 85 years later? In this latest edition Chronolytics found out for us.
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Anonimo reinforces link with Leopard Racing

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After announcing its support of motorcycle racing, watch brand Anonimo is reinforcing its link with Leopard Racing. Now the TCR International Series teams will also be sporting the watch brand's colours. A Franco-Swiss driving duo is now getting ready for next race this Sunday in internationally renown Sochi. Anonimo watches combine rugged Italian sports-chic with sharp and functional design. The dials are a model of understatement, free from any irrelevant details to ensure they remain legible under all circumstances. Like at the wheel of a racing car driving at top speed.
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Montblanc Heritage Chronométrie Chronograph Quantième Annuel

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After the success of the Heritage Chronométrie collection at the last SIHH Montblanc adds two new models. One is this annual calendar based on one of the first Minerva chronographs from the 1920s. For the laymen among you: the renowned Minerva manufacture in Villeret has been in Montblanc hands for many years. It is the first time in this line that Montblanc combines an annual calendar with a chronograph.
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