VIDEO: Girard-Perregaux 2017 collection – the biggest controversy at SIHH?

While the watches at SIHH change every year, one thing stays reassuringly the same, and that is the drama surrounding them. Sometimes it’s big, like the deregulation of the Swiss Franc. Sometimes it’s small, like a brand being a little too obsfucatory in a press release over the origins of a movement. This year everyone’s tongues seemed to be wagging about a) Moser’s cheesy take on the industry, and b) the Girard-Perregaux Laureato. Feel free to disagree with us, but we think the majority of noise around the Laureato –  specifically around its look and legitimacy – is well and truly blown out of proportion, as is so often the case with ‘controversies’ like these. But that’s just the tip of the GP iceberg in 2017, with lots to discuss around other models, too. Watch on!

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Women In Watches: A Tribute To International Women’s Day

As you may know, today is International Women’s Day. A day designated to celebrate women and all they do, whether at home, in the office, or in their communities. I won’t get too political here as most of you likely come here to escape politics, but as this is an important day not only to me but to all women and for women’s rights (and for men who care about both) I thought it would be relevant to do a round up of my favorite HODINKEE articles about women in watches.

9 years ago

Introducing: The Fabergé Visionnaire Chronograph, With A Dramatically Different Central Chronograph Caliber

Fabergé isn’t a company you’d ordinarily associate with watchmaking – the name is most strongly associated with the work of Carl Fabergé in pre-revolutionary Russia, and, of course, with the spectacular Imperial Easter Eggs, made for the Romanov family. But in recent years, the revived company has partnered with boutique movement manufacture Agenhor, and Agenhor’s founder, watchmaker Jean-Marc Wiederrecht (known for, among other things, producing the Poetic Complications for Van Cleef & Arpels) and has produced both animated ladies’ timepieces, as well as watches like the Visionnaire DTZ. The latter is a dual time-zone watch that won in the dual time-zone category at the 2016 GPHG.

9 years ago

Eterna KonTiki Bronze Manufacture Watch

As we creep ever-closer to Baselworld 2017, the numbers of brands without a bronze watch in their catalog continue to dwindle. The latest to lose its bronze virginity is Eterna, whose KonTiki Bronze Manufacture watch celebrates the 70th anniversary of Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl’s 5,000-mile trek across the Pacific Ocean in 1947.

9 years ago

My 2017 SIHH Highlights, Shot With A Leica Q

At the 2017 SIHH in Geneva I particularly liked the Carré des Horlogers, as the SIHH independents’ hall is known, which showcases some of the industry’s finest creative minds producing amazing watches, both traditional and contemporary. So without further ado, here are my SIHH highlights, most of which come from that hall.

9 years ago

Auction Report: The Only Publicly Available Autodromo Group B ‘Night Stage’ To Be Sold At Bonhams For Charity

There are cool, rare watches to be had at all price points, and this watch is a perfect remind of that. Autodromo only made 14 pieces of this blacked-out Group B “Night Stage” and they were all offered privately to collectors, never making it to public sale. Until now. Making things even better, this Night Stage is being sold for charity, meaning you get a great watch and get to support a great cause all at the same time.

9 years ago

Ferro & Co. AGL Watches

Inspired by vintage aircraft, Ferro & Co. designed 2 distinctive styles of pilot watches that reflect the aesthetics of the 1940s aviation world. On February 15th, 2017, Ferro Watches launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund their first production batch of Swiss-made limited edition timepieces.

9 years ago

Introducing – Fabergé Visionnaire Chronograph, with Revolutionary Movement by Agenhor (And the Best Video To Explain It)

When you think Fabergé, you hardly think about watches. And even more, you hardly imagine a hyper-innovative chronograph movement, which in some ways revolutionizes centuries of stop watches… However that is exactly what Fabergé introduces today: a movement with a brand new display, a brand new architecture and a brand new clutch, solving many of the traditional chronograph issues. Fabergé’s new timepieces is a chronograph that displays the elapsed hours, minutes and seconds centrally, with the passage of ‘normal’ hours and minutes around it. Please welcome the Fabergé Visionnaire Chronograph, with revolutionary movement by Agenhor (and we found the best possible video to explain it – thanks TheWatchesTV.)

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