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The Greatest Watch Off Earth: Omega Presents The Speedmaster “First Omega In Space” Chronograph
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Audemars Piguet: The Saga of Steel
It was the watch that many thought would sink the company. The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak is today one of the world’s most iconic and recognizable watches, and one of the most successful watch designs of all time, but when it first came out it represented an enormous risk for Audemars Piguet–one that many in the watch industry thought would be a fatal one. READ MORE
REVOLUTION IN TIME: THE JAEGER LE COULTRE DUOMÉTRE A SPHÉROTOURBILLON
We’re just back from one of the central events of the watch lover’s (and watch journalist’s) year: the Salon International Haute Horlogerie in Geneva, where luxury watch brands under the aegis of the Richemont Group (as well as a few other brands that prefer the relative calm of the SIHH to the rugby-scrum hurly-burly of the Other Watch Fair, BaselWorld) show what’s new and (we hope) exciting for 2012. READ MORE
Cutting Edge: Piaget And The Mastery Of Ultra-Thin Watchmaking
Even among experts, the name Piaget often evokes conflicting images. When one thinks of Piaget, the first things to come to mind are exotic high jewelry timepieces that adorn the wrists of some of the world’s most elegant and fashionable women. With a history of creating spectacular jeweled watches–and spectacular jewelry–it’s understandable that even among watch enthusiasts there are many who don’t realize that Piaget is also one of the technical powerhouses of the Swiss watch industry, and in an arena where only the most sophisticated fine watchmaking firms can compete– the making of ultra-thin watches. Part of the confusion READ MORE
A CLASS OF ONE: THE AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK 39MM
As every keen watch enthusiast knows, this year marks an important anniversary in the history of both watchmaking, and a small, independent, family-owned company based in Le Brassus, Switzerland, known as Audemars Piguet. READ MORE
The Singing Queen: The Rotonde De Cartier Minute Repeater Flying Tourbillon
The world of complicated watches has a hierarchy that begins with the simplest calendar mechanism and ascends through an increasingly sophisticated variety of mechanisms –some useful, some beautiful, some both. Enthusiasts differ on personal favorites, but on one point there’s nearly universal agreement: the minute repeater is the pinnacle of complications both in terms of complexity and the skill required to make one. A minute repeater is, after all, not just an enhancement to the time keeping functions of a watch –it is also a musical instrument, and requires of its designer the ability to not only make and fine-tune READ MORE
