Seth Semilof

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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Breitling and Bentley Announce the Bentley Mulliner Tourbillon

Breitling and Bentley Announce the Bentley Mulliner Tourbillon

The Bentley Mulliner Tourbillon debuted this week as the latest collaborative effort between luxury watchmaker Breitling and the ultra-luxury Bentley brand of automobiles. The Bentley Mulliner Tourbillon gets its name from Breitling’s Mulliner workshop, which employs 100 artisans skilled in the craft of haute horology. With only two examples of the new watch to be produced each year, the technicians have ample time to customize each one according to the buyer’s specifications. He can choose between fifteen different shades for the dial, 11 different types of bracelets and six different veneers for the wood ring found under the rear crystal. READ MORE

Piaget Partners with Philanthropists for Charity Polo Match

Piaget Partners with Philanthropists for Charity Polo Match

Richemont subsidiary Piaget treated the Hamptons to a star-studded polo match last Sunday, all to benefit New York City’s Robin Hood Foundation. Southfork philanthropists Joe and Diana DiMenna joined Piaget in sponsoring the charitable event. The match took place at the Equuleus Polo Club in Watermill, NY, just outside Southampton. Rival teams sponsored by Equuleus, Crédit Suisse, and Beverly Hills Beauty were sprinkled with elite polo players such as Nacho Figueras, Kris Kampsen and Bash Kazi. The nine-chukker round robin match ended in a three-way tie between the teams, setting a rather amiable mood for the rest of the afternoon. READ MORE

Richard Mille Adds Romain Dumas to Cadre of Race Car Drivers

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Richard Mille scored another victory in the world of extreme haute horology with the sponsorship of Romain Dumas’ effort to conquer the Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado. Dumas finished second in the 14,110 foot climb, his Porsche 911 GT3-R crossing the finish line only 17 thousandths of a second behind winner Rhys Millen. His timepiece of choice for the endurance-driving adventure was an RM 011 FM from Richard Mille. Designed specifically for motorsports, the RM 011 FM features a 50 mm Titanium case with DLC coating powered by an automatic movement that ticks off hours, minutes, seconds and READ MORE

Haute Time Watch of the Day: Van Cleef & Arpels Midnight in Paris

Haute Time Watch of the Day: Van Cleef & Arpels Midnight in Paris

Haute Time watch of the day, is from Van Cleef & Arpels, called Midnight in Paris.    The watch was released in 2007, but this year it came with a men’s cologne, that is currently my favorite cologne that i got in Moscow last week.  When the watch was created, it was from there Poetic Complications collection,  that combine rare stones and precious materials with complex watch movements.  The watch got the name  from the dial, that  functions as a 365-day display of the position of the stars as seen under the Parisian sky at midnight, thus giving the watch its READ MORE

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