Bold character and sculptural lines

Distinctive model: Vacheron Constantin Historiques Aronde 1954

This Historiques Aronde 1954 immediately catches the eye with its original rectangular case. Radiating a blend of boldness and creativity, this newcomer to the Historiques collection is inspired by a model created during the effervescent post-war years. Its guilloché dial is a tribute to the Métiers d’Art – the artistic crafts inseparable from the field of haute horlogerie – that are consistently cultivated by Vacheron Constantin. Like all models in this collection, this Historiques Aronde 1954 watch with its sculptural lines is produced in limited numbers.

The World’s Most Legible Calendar Wristwatch

Maîtres du Temps: Chapter Two – Big Date Triple Calendar

In teaming several of the world’s greatest living watchmakers with one of the world’s most prestigious state-of-the-art movement manufactures, a very special timepiece is assured. With Chapter Two, renowned talent such as Master Watchmakers Daniel Roth and Peter Speake-Marin went beyond “very special”—they pushed the boundaries of haute horlogerie.

Precision above all

Exceptional timepiece: The RICHARD LANGE TOURBILLON Pour le Mérite

The fourth A. Lange & Söhne timepiece honoured with the distinction “Pour le Mérite” embodies a fusée-and-chain transmission as well as a tourbillon with a patented stop-seconds mechanism. The underlying purpose shared by both of these grand complications is to improve rate stability and precision. The prominent regulator dial with its fascinating pivoting segment was inspired by a famous historic paragon.

Hitting 360’000 beats per hour

World First: TAG Heuer CARRERA MIKROGRAPH 1/100th Second Chronograph

TAG Heuer introduces the first ever column wheel integrated mechanical chronograph displaying the 1/100th of a second with a striking central hand allowing an easy reading: the HEUER CARRERA MIKROGRAPH 1/100th Second Chronograph. Entirely designed, patented, developed and manufactured in La Chaux-De-Fonds, "TAG Heuer Haute Horlogerie" workshop also crafting the Monaco V4, this new major innovation from TAG Heuer confirms the company 150 years leadership in mastering ultimate accuracy, speed and high complexity mechanical movements.

The world of haute horlogerie

MB&F Horological Machine No2 – Final Editions

First launched in 2008, Horological Machine No2 revolutionized the world of haute horlogerie with its distinctive rectangular shape, flying buttresses, dual portholes and modular construction. The crystal-clear sapphire case of HM2-SV then took the revolution even further by offering unprecedented visual access into the meticulously hand-finished, 349-component engine powering the indications on HM2's iconic twin dials.

A new era for the legendary Golden Bridge

CORUM Golden Bridge Automatic

The mechanical Golden Bridge movement made a strong impact right from the time of its first presentation in 1980. Over 30 years ago, this exceptional baguette movement with its innovative construction wrote a new chapter in the history of watchmaking. Introduced in 2011 for the very first time is an automatic version – with linear winding – it heralds a new era in the legend of this unique movement. This world première of the automatic variation is presented in a red or white gold case and will be produced in limited quantities.

A true masterpiece

Audemars Piguet: Tourbillon Chronograph Royal Oak Offshore

In order to grasp the essence of the Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Tourbillon Chronograph, you need to pick up the watch with your eyes closed and only open them after turning it over. Housed within a case that strongly hints at its innate sturdiness, protected by a sapphire crystal and a solid back secured by eight polished steel screws, a true masterpiece is revealed: the new selfwinding Calibre 2897, equipped with a tourbillon and a chronograph.

Three new models

ZENITH Captain - The purest expression of the ZENITH watch making heritage

Captain: the very name calls up flights of fancy! It evokes long-distance travel, untamed seas, but also the fabulous fortunes made trading in distant outposts… The status of captain was, in the past, reserved for officers who commanded a royal vessel. Nothing of the art and skill of navigation at sea could remain a mystery to the man who aspired to this position.

Micro-mechanics have never looked so good!

URWERK presents the UR-110 Torpedo

The UR-110 is a watch with attitude. From the base of its unusual asymmetrical case to the three arrow-shaped "torpedoes" flying in formation with the mission of indicating the time, the UR-110 has serious attitude. Enveloped in a secure titanium case, planetary gearing keeps the three hour satellites in parallel formation as they take turns to indicate the time as they pass the 60-minute track. An "Oil Change" indicator alerts the user when it is time for a service; a “Day/Night” indicator helps keep track of changing time zones; and twin turbines on the back minimize wear in the automatic winding system.

Watchmaking masterpiece

New Reverso Répétition Minutes à Rideau

Developed by the Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre, the groundbreaking the Reverso Répétition Minutes à Rideau, invents a new movement, a new way of seeing and feeling… The Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie, was the setting for Jaeger-LeCoultre to unveil its new watchmaking masterpiece: the first watch with four faces, using a pivoting curtain which masks one dial while revealing the other in alternation.

The Craftsmen of Time and their various arts

Watch-Technique at the service of emotion

Cut off from the world in the Vallée de Joux where time stands still, masterpieces of watchmaking, those instruments so symbolic of urban life, are born. The most ancient and delicate decorative arts hold no secrets for the big firm of the Vallée de Joux. Enamel, engraving and the setting of precious stones are all highly skilled crafts which Jaeger-LeCoultre brings together to grace its watchmaking and artistic creations, and which it perpetuates under its own roof.

A 3-D skeletonised experience

Linde Werdelin’s evolution in Haute Horlogerie

Haute horlogerie as we have come to know it is evolving. Watches are changing shape, they cease being flat objects but rather they are taking form and evolving into 3-Dimensional models of desire. Linde Werdelin watches and instruments have made a mark in the watch making industry when created the first fully skeletonised watch, the SpidoLite. Two years later, Linde Werdelin is pushing the boundaries of design and construction even further and is announcing the launch of a 3-Dimensional skeletonised experience called, SpidoSpeed.

Hublot BIG BANG 44 MM GREENGO BANG

40 watches to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Greengo

Roger Moore, Elizabeth Taylor, Princess Diana, Michael Jackson, Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly, David Niven, Peter Sellers, King Juan Carlos, George Soros, Jeanne Moreau, Julie Andrews, Margaret Thatcher, Johnny Hallyday, Bernie Ecclestone… This list could go on and on, so intimately tied is the history of the Greengo, the Gstaad Palace's legendary night club, to the worldwide renown of the Swiss resort.

BASELWORLD 2011 Preview

Blancpain presents its first Half-Time-Zone watch

In 2011, Blancpain is pursuing the reinterpretation of its Villeret collection initiated in 2010. The Manufacture du Brassus is offering an exclusive preview of its first Villeret Demi-Fuseau Horaire, a model that serves to adjust the second time zone in half-hour increments. Travellers to countries with half-hour time-zone differences, such as India, will thus be equally punctual while in those particular destinations!

Over 50 hours of power reserve

Homemade tourbillon by Zenith

One of the most difficult feats to perform in watchmaking is constructing a tourbillon. This mechanical element improves precision by counterbalancing perturbations created by the Earth’s attraction on the balance’s regularity. The correction is made by having the balance and the escapement turn on themselves. In Switzerland these days, you could count on one hand the number of watchmakers capable of constructing it.