Jack Forster

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A look at the Top Multiple Time Zone Watches

They’re the traveler’s best friend–world time watches and their near-cousins, two time zone watches. They are designed to help jet-setters keep track of local time and the time in one or more other time zones. Their invention and development follows the evolution of travel itself, as a multiple time zone watch depends on the existence of a time zone system, and thereby hangs a tale. The time zone system came to fruition because, before its invention, clocks and watches were set to local time. Originally, one would set their clock or watch to a sundial, but since the time on READ MORE

Second Coming: The A. Lange & Söhne Datograph Auf/Ab

When the original Datograph from Lange & Söhne debuted in 1999, it was hailed as a triumph –not only for its intrinsic qualities but also as a demonstration of the expertise in watchmaking in the German style represented by Lange. READ MORE

GOLDEN AGE: THE LANGE & SÖHNE DATOGRAPH

Though we often focus on new watches here at Haute Time, we think there’s something to be said for looking backwards and learning from the past as well. There has been an interesting change in watchmaking in recent decades. Watches used to be, by and large, practical instruments designed to unobtrusively tell the time, and which were expected to do their job accurately and without fuss. Today watchmakers no longer have the luxury of making watches that largely look the same from one year to the next -the pressure to make something new and eye-catching every year is intense. At READ MORE

Inside Look at Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva

It is not more than a few minutes into the weekly English-language tour of the Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva when one of the visitors asks the inevitable question: would you spend tens of thousands to millions of dollars on a Patek Philippe timepiece because you want something that is more accurate? The guide replies simply, “It’s not just about telling time. If you want to do that, you have your cell phone.” To illustrate, the guide shows his guests the museum’s and the world’s most complicated portable timepiece—the Calibre 89, a Patek Philippe pocket watch with a world-record thirty-three READ MORE

Inside look at the first ever Ulysse Nardin boutique in the United States

It was a momentous occasion at Boca Raton’s Town Center mall on December 16, as a special ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the official unveiling of Bobby Yampolsky’s latest venture in the world of fine timepieces—the first ever Ulysse Nardin boutique in the United States. It’s In His Blood Bobby is no stranger to glitz and glamour; he’s been in the business of buying and selling luxury jewelry for more than twenty years. But this “King of Bling” was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. In fact, when Bobby first joined his father Michael in the family business, the READ MORE

CALIBER CRMA1 AND THE RICHARD MILLE RM 037

Richard Mille has debuted its landmark new timepiece the RM 037 and the new automatic caliber CRMA1. Gearing up for SIHH 2012 in January, the new timepiece represents an original concept by the Richard Mille movement designers in Les Breuleux, Switzerland. This automatic winding caliber created from skeletonized grade 5 titanium sports an oversize date at 12 o’clock and a function window at 4 o’ clock. Two subtly shaped pushers are located at 4 and 10 o’clock. The pusher at 4 o’clock allows one to select the winding (W), neutral (N) and hand setting (H) functions with a simple push. READ MORE