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This year Glashütte Original honors the traditional art of Glashütte watchmaking with yet another masterpiece of haute horlogerie: The PanoLunarTourbillon. With its progressive design, this model enriches the new Pano timepieces being introduced last year.
When a brand becomes known for its inventiveness like Breguet, it is only natural for it to direct its research to improving the running time of its movements. In this context the brand today presents the reference 5277 in a 38mm rose-gold case.
The new Patek Philippe Calatrava Ref. 7200 in delicate rose gold is a ladies' wristwatch fully focused on hours and minutes. It indicates neither seconds nor the date nor other extras – only the time in its most unhurried manifestation.
As a longstanding partner of the most prestigious regattas and leading sailors such as Loïck Peyron and Ben Ainslie, the development of a caliber combining a countdown function with a chronograph was a logical step for the fine watchmaking brand, Corum. This has now been accomplished in the new Admiral’s Cup AC-One 45 Regatta, equipped with a regatta function entirely developed by Corum.
The latest addition to the Bridges collection by Corum, the Ti-Bridge Automatic Dual Winder, heralds a new chapter in watchmaking history. Perfectly in tune with the collection’s linear architecture, the new Dual Winder system of the automatic CO 207 caliber – designed, developed and patented by Corum – derives its energy from two interconnected inline oscillating weights. A world first for this avant-garde timepiece.
1936 – Tazio Nuvolari drives his 12-cylinder Alfa Romeo 300 miles to an extraordinary triumph on the Roosevelt Raceway in New York State. Tazio and his Vanderbilt Cup make racing history.
German luxury watchmaker Glashütte Original continues to engage with the art of design, presenting quintessential expressions of the manufactory in clearly contemporary new editions: the Senator Panorama Date and Senator Panorama Date Moon Phase.
For centuries, perpetual calendar timepieces have existed. Yet it was in 1996 that Ulysse Nardin brought to market the world’s most functional perpetual calendar. Created by the master of watch innovation, Ludwig Oechslin, the timepiece, named the Perpetual Ludwig, marked a major milestone in watchmaking history.
This year, Saratoga Race Course is celebrating its 150th birthday. August 1863 saw the opening of Saratoga Race Course and simultaneously witnessed the official “inauguration” of thoroughbred racing. The two have become inseparable and together now embody America's oldest continuous racing tradition at the nation’s oldest sporting venue.
After the successful launch of the QUANTIÈME PERPÉTUEL AU GRAND BALANCIER collection in 2012, the dynamic manufacture from central switzerland introduces a new model with a partially cut-out dial, giving the watch a subtile technical touch.
Sailing has been in the blood of prestigious Swiss watchmaker Edox for more than 50 years. And since 2008, the Edox Grand Ocean collection of distinctive marine-themed timepieces has wowed watch and water sports fans alike.
Among the timepieces Breguet produces, those in the Reine de Naples collection have always been noted for lapsing into poetry. This impression is no doubt due to the unique shape of the case, which symbolises the origin of life, but it could also be because it is a collection in which each highly complicated watch is made only for women.
Ulysse Nardin launches its first in-house designed and produced self-winding caliber for women’s watches, paying tribute to the female clientele who appreciate its quest for innovation. Unique in its concept, it is designed and built in such a way that it does not call for pushing or pulling of the crown to set the date and time, meaning NO MORE damage to the ladies' manicure.
The magnificence of birds, and especially the blue songbirds of his native Swiss Jura, has always captivated Pierre Jaquet-Droz. From the beginning, the watchmaker from La Chaux-de-Fonds has paid tribute to the fascinating and graceful crystalline song of these creatures using the most advanced techniques of the age to render the beauty of the plumage, the density of the colors, and the mysterious depth of their gaze.
When he invented the tourbillon, A-L Breguet not only improved the accuracy of pocket-chronometers, he also gave the watchmaking world one of its finest horological devices. Since then, the Breguet company has made it a point of honour to pay tribute to this invention with timepieces each more elegant than the next.