Jack Forster

Jack Forster is the Editor in Chief of Revolution Magazine, a quarterly publication celebrating the world of fine watchmaking, and he also manages Revolution Online, the foremost information and discussion site on the internet for watch enthusiasts.

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Modern Art and Timeless Style in “Le Corbusier” Trilogy by Girard-Perregaux

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret is probably not a name you recognize, but Le Corbusier probably is; in fact, the latter is the nom de plume of the former (a variation on the name of his maternal grandfather, which he adopted in 1920 in the avant-garde spirit of assertion of one’s own identity against tradition). Beginning as a painter, Jeanneret moved into architecture and became famous for his furniture design (Swiss-born but living in France much of his life, he made characteristically Gallic declarations like “chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois”). Jeanneret also designed an enormous number of buildings, including the United Nations headquarters in New York. However, READ MORE

Ballet Mechanique: The Urwerk UR-210 “Maltese Falcon”

Urwerk, like the legendary Black Bird after which they’ve named their latest watch, is a true rara avis –not only is it one of the very few watchmaking firms that’s creating unusual designs that are really successful, and not just exercises in shock or novelty, it’s also one of the few independent watchmaking houses to enjoy survival. That’s not to say that Urwerk is merely surviving –they’re flourishing, in fact, in the limelight of their own success –but the fact remains that for those watchmakers who remain free of ties to the Goliath luxury groups, there is a price for READ MORE

Haute Time : Cartier, The HYT H1, Omega & Audemars Piguet

CRYSTAL MAGIC: CARTIER PRESENTS THE ASTROTOURBILLON CARBON CRYSTAL In the male-dominated, testosterone-fueled world of watches and watchmaking, it’s easy to think that the imagination and drive to innovate must be an exclusively male domain. But one of the most creative and fertile minds in the watchmaking world belongs to Carole Forestier, who currently plies her trade as the mastermind behind the development of new movements and watches for Cartier. Cartier may evoke images of its iconic Tank, Santos or Pasha watches, or of the icy combination of platinum and diamonds which it pioneered in the beginning of the 20th century, READ MORE

Perpetual Satisfaction: The Patek Philipps Ref. 5940

It’s a staple of action films –the character who doesn’t get involved in the action, who won’t get drawn in, but who, at some point, has to show what he (or she) is made of, and proceeds to demonstrate that under the surface, there’s much, much more than meets the eye. It’s the kind of character that Harrison Ford’s made a career of playing; low key, substance-over-style, but once he goes into action, he leaves the competition in the dust. If the Patek Philippe Ref. 5940 were an actor, he’d be Harrison Ford (in, you know, the good movies.) It’s READ MORE

Queen of Time: Breguet Reine de Naples Bracelet Watch

It may come as a surprise to those who assume that the world of appreciation of fine watchmaking is exclusively a male domain to find out that one of the greatest collectors of watches by one of the greatest of watchmakers was actually a woman. The lady in question was no ordinary lady, and the watches she collected were just as extraordinary. The younger sister of Napoleon, Caroline Murat, reigned as the Queen of Naples from 1808 to 1815 during which period this remarkable woman bought no less than thirty four clocks and watches from the workshops of A. L. READ MORE