Jack Forster

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Vacheron Constantin’s First West Coast Hour Lounge Collector Event

Located at the historic penthouse at San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel, the first West Coast Hour Lounge collector event included a live discussion about watch design, technical developments and collector preferences. The penthouse at the Fairmont served as an elegant and enchanting backdrop for the first Hour Lounge event in San Francisco. The penthouse was constructed in 1926 is only accessible by a private elevator. It features 6,000 square feet of space with a two-story circular library complete with a secret passageway concealed behind bookshelves. There is also a beautiful billiard room and terrace with sweeping city views. The space has READ MORE

Blancpain Unveils the X Fathoms Underwater

Blancpain has unveiled its latest extension of the Fifty Fathoms watch line, the X FATHOMS watch in a very unqiue way on October 26th! The ceremony took place in Dubai with CEO Marc A. Hayek along with champion underwater freediver, Gianluca Genoni, holder of more than 15 free-diving records. The X Fathoms is a world premiere concept watch, the “most extreme” watch Blancpain has ever produced. The timepiece revisits the characteristics of its iconic 1953 ancestor, and combines them with a mechanical depth gauge to create the most high-performance mechanical diving watch ever produced. This brand new and unique mechanical system was immersed READ MORE

Tiffany & Co. Presents the Atlas Gent Square Chronograph in Gold

The Atlas Gent Square Chronograph is one of Tiffany & Co.’s most special timepieces and the new model has recently debuted and is ready for the public. This haute watch is signature Tiffany’s but with an array of new and unique features. With a 40mm, 18 carat red gold case, classic square face with roman numerals, supple leather strap and signature “Clous de Paris” detailing this watch is a work of art. The Atlas is waterproof up to 100 m and features one of the world’s finest self-winding movements: the Frederic Piguet calibre 1285. Like Haute Time? Join our Facebook READ MORE

From The Tourbillon To World Time: Greubel Forsey Presents The GMT

The ”GMT” marks a significant milestone for Greubel Forsey, as it is the brand’s first timepiece to feature a complication other than a tourbillon. The GMT is distinguished by an eye-catching rotating globe offering an intuitive view of the time all over the world, as well as a 24 Seconds Tourbillon. With this remarkable timepiece, Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey have focused their energy on indicating a second time zone, a complication traditionally denoted by GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), the historical reference meridian for navigators. The GMT features a wonderful, three-dimensional temporal representation: A rotating terrestrial globe offering a truly original view of READ MORE

‘Important Watches’ Sale to Feature Rare Timepieces

Chrstie’s Hong Kong will hold a sale of ‘Important Watches’ on Nov. 30, offering over 550 rare watches. The collection is valued at an excess of $11 million and features both vintage and modern timepieces from the 1940s through present day. The sale will feature high jewelry watches, Chinese market enamels, pocket watches, and some very unusual-form watches. One such unique piece is a beautifully decorated pistol combined with a watch and perfume spritzer. Another interesting piece is a rare and previously undocumented enamel and diamond-set ring timepiece with its original box, circa 1810. Ring watches first appeared in the READ MORE

An Inside Look at the Hautest Tourbillon Watches on the Market

Go into any boutique that sells luxury watches and you’ll be confronted with a scale of prices that rise sharply as watches become more complicated. At the pinnacle is the complication known as the tourbillon (French for “whirlwind.”) If you’ve never seen one before, one look and you’ll remember it forever; it’s a rotating spiderweb of delicately polished steel, on which the escapement (the parts of the watch that make it accurate, and that make it tick) is mounted. If you love the romance of machines –and you do, or you wouldn’t be in there– it’ll be love at first READ MORE