Kristina-Ripsimé Ambartsumian, chairman of MCT (Manufacture Contemporaine du Temps), announce the appointment of Pierre Jacques as the watch brand’s new CEO. Pierre Jacques has more than 15 years of strategic and operational experience in the watch industry. He notably co-founded the international watch magazine GMT, directed the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève and subsequently the Geneva flagship store of the retail group Les Ambassadeurs, before serving for five years as CEO of the De Bethune brand.
When a young watch designer joins an established luxury watch brand and his first major brief is to develop a radical new expression of the brand’s most iconic model, he needs to have some great ideas ready. Young Swiss designer Adrian Buchmann (28) rose to that challenge, taking Christopher Ward’s Trident collection to a new level with a stunning new interpretation of the mighty Trident – the C60 Trident Chronograph Pro 600.
In 1993 Caroline Scheufele devised the Happy Sport watch, which has since become one of the cornerstones of the house of Chopard and achieved its fame and reputation because of the diamonds dancing across the dial. Many variations later the Happy Sport was given a self-winding mechanism on the occasion of its 20th birthday in 2013.
First comes red, then blue, followed by black. No, this is not a traffic light seen through the eyes of a colour-blind person, it is the order in which Tudor presents the Heritage Black Bay. The Heritage Black Bay, a direct descendant of the Tudor Submariners that date back to 1954, is being expanded with a new model with black bezel. Bordeaux red and blue existed already and could count on a standing ovation.
If there's one thing watchmakers hate it is gravity, as this unavoidable natural phenomenon affects the accuracy of the movements they create with so much love, attention and craftsmanship. That's why they reach for the tourbillon when they really can't take it anymore. But apart from the tourbillon, which equals out gravity, it is also possible to use a carrousel. The carrousel in a watch has nothing to do with the traditional fairground attraction.
Nice to see that Yvo Staudt’s his sincere love and fascination for watches has transformed and materialized into a brand, Staudt Watches Twente, and real watches you can feel and wear. The first two Praeludiums, his first step into the world of watch producing brands, are sold out, but now there’s a successor in the shape of the Praeludium Hand Wound.
The newest Hublot Classic Fusion has a new outfit and goes by the name Hublot Classic Fusion Blue 45mm Edition Harrods. This timepiece is born out of a collaboration between the luxury Swiss watch manufacturer and London’s iconic luxury retail store.
Ulysse Nardin honors the monkey with the Cheerful Year of the Monkey timepiece, the latest addition to its Classico Collection. The dial is designed in a comic book-like style to best capture the lively character of the monkey who appears to leap through a brush of palm fronds. His expression is alert, his body lithe and the early workings of an impish grin begin to emerge.
Clean lines, distinctive hands and unmistakable Swiss quality. Reliability and perfect finishing are combined in the new Alpina Alpiner Manufacture AL-710. The watch may be inspired by an automatic Alpiner model from the fifties with its vintage-looking creamy dial, but the clear design gives the watch a contemporary look.
For the second time, Zenith and the UK based The Watch Gallery collaborated to produce a special watch. In 2013 they introduced the El Primero Chronomaster Power Reserve which became an immediate success. This year the Swiss manufacturer and the prestigious watch retailer launch the Zenith Pilot Extra Special.
The principle of the single hand is firmly upheld in the MeisterSinger Salthora Meta and yet, there is something different about the watch. In this sporty-looking model the single hand does not function as a solitary, universal time indicator but as a dedicated minute hand, as the hours are presented digitally in a display at 12 o'clock. When the minute hand reaches the centre of this window the next hour flashes up.
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