Seth Semilof, Publisher of Haute Living magazine, has been a devoted watch enthusiast since he can remember. It was out of this passion that, last year, Semilof and business partner Kamal Hotchandani launched luxury timepiece website Haute Time. The two curate the site, hand-selecting all content that goes live. Semilof highlights his favorite—and the most sought-after—watch brands through weekly five-question interviews with the CEOs and Presidents of these top-tier companies. Finally, he curates the site on a daily basis, including three or more updates on newsworthy topics every day.
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Panerai Shows Haute Time its Spectacular New Pocket Watch, and other New Launches at SIHH
I was very excited to check out the Panerai presentation for SIHH this year. They had one of the most talked about watches of SIHH, the Panerai Watch Tourbillon GMT Cermaica. “Wow” is all I can say—as this is one of the most beautiful pocket watches we have ever seen, and was the highlight of the pieces presented by Panerai at SIHH. Everyone was talking about this watch, which put it up in my opinion as top 5 watches of SIHH. The watch is limited to only 50 pieces, and I love how the watch is black ceramic with the READ MORE
A. Lange & Söhne Shows Haute Time its New Exceptional Pieces at SIHH
Haute Time had the opportunity to sit down and take a look at the new watches launched at SIHH from A. Lange & Sohne this year. The watch has been getting a lot of buzz lately, as a lot of fine watch lovers have been requesting the pieces, as we were very excited to sit down with the team, and get an inside look at the watches. The first watch, which we were not able to see, but they had a huge clock in the walk way in the book, was the A. Lange & Söhne Grande Complication, which will READ MORE
Audemars Piguet Shows Haute Time its Exclusive New Men’s Pieces at SIHH
My next visit was with Audemars Piguet, to check out there new launched pieces. Before we got into the pieces, I was very fortunate and lucky to have Paul Lerner take out a special custom piece to show Haute Time, the Audemars Piguet Arnold T3, which was customized with diamonds everywhere. This is a special piece that was done exclusively by AP, that is not a new piece, but WOW, if you like diamonds, this is the biggest watch I have ever seen. The first watch I was able to see was a Royal Oak Offshore Grande Complication. This is a READ MORE
Richard Mille Shows Haute Time its Spectacular New Pieces at SIHH
My first stop at SIHH was Richard Mille booth. What an amazing booth, as they had Yohan Blake walking around taking pictures with everyone. But, of course, the best part of the booth was the watches—and boy did Richard Mille deliver over the top pieces this year at SIHH! The first is obviously the best, the $1,500,000 RM 056-1, made up of Sapphire Crystal. This was the hottest piece out of SIHH last year, with five models all sold out, so Richard decided to add another five pieces to the collection, which was a huge hit again this year. This READ MORE
HUBLOT Shows Haute Time Its New 2013 Launches in Switzerland
Today I got into Geneva, Switzerland, and went to the Grand Hotel Kempinski to check out Hublot’s 2013 launches. They are technically not part of SIHH, but they are having an exhibition all week on the second floor. I was very impressed with the setup, along with the launch of new watches for 2013. I have heard a lot of news about the Zebra bang, so I was excited to be able to take a look at the pieces, along with anything new being launched this year. They had a couple of really cool watches that were all pretty interesting. READ MORE
