| Bell & Ross Grand Minuteur | 12 April 2008 | | The BR Grand Minuteur is a time measuring tool that takes the brand's blunt assertiveness to a whole new level. The hour counter is connected to a large timer, measuring short times, while an additional flyback function launches a new measurement almost immediately. There is also a lower subdial indicates the 10-day power reserve.
With its ultra-light titanium case, carbon fibre dial and black anodized aluminium movement bridges, QP wonders whether this might become the coolest watch at Baselworld... Read full story |
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| Graham, Swordfish 'Ali Baba' | 07 April 2008 | | Graham’s new chromatic chronograph, the Swordfish ‘Ali Baba’, is a colourful edition to their range of bug-eyed sports watches (see QP29). Decorated with a veritable cornucopia of precious stones, the watch is certainly a vibrant way to usher in the summer. Read full story |
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 | Ebel on Side | 26 March 2008 | | Keeping the pressure turned up, Ebel prepare to unveil their latest 1911 permutation at this year’s Baselworld. Read full story |
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 | Rallye Monte-Carlo | 15 February 2008 | | With a storm raging all about, snow drifts obscuring the way ahead and icy conditions causing 89% of participants to jump-ship, the 1965 Rallye Monte-Carlo was a bitterly treacherous competition. Read full story |
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 | TAG Heuer Comes Full Circle | 14 February 2008 | | Today it has almost become mandatory for a well-established watch brand to present their distinguished and enduring heritage via their own tailor made museum. Read full story |
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 | Royal Ties | 13 February 2008 | | As the Royal Hall at Harrogate reaches the completion of its full restoration, HRH Prince Charles visited the English Heritage site to make the dedication and turn on the lights. Read full story |
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 | Heart on your Sleeve | 12 February 2008 | | Blancpain have ushered in St. Read full story |
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 | Divine Proportions | 11 February 2008 | | Steinway & Sons, the name synonymous with the sweeping elliptical curve of a grand piano, has made an extraordinary leap from music to horology. Read full story |
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 | Boucheron’s 150TH Anniversary | 10 February 2008 | | This year Boucheron celebrate its 150th anniversary, a landmark occasion and one not to be taken lightly. Read full story |
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 | The Next Generation | 10 February 2008 | | Concord are adding a new model to their C1 range, the Tourbillon Gravity, which is reportedly the next step in the evolutionary ladder for the gravitational balance mechanism. Read full story |
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 | Antiquorum Prepares for Rolex | 10 February 2008 | | Following on from the success of Antiquorum’s Omegamania sale, the auction house has opted for another bite at the thematic apple, this time calling Rolex to take the stage. Read full story |
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 | Bremont Appoints | 14 December 2007 | | Bremont has already attracted considerable interest since it launched its first collection in July 2007. Read full story |
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 | Grand Prix d’Horlogerie | 13 December 2007 | | The 7th edition of the Grand Prix d’Horolgerie took place this November with over 400 watches competing in nine categories. Read full story |
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 | Master Collection Retrograde | 13 December 2007 | | With 175 years of watchmaking history, Longines are honouring this heritage with the Master Collection Retrograde. Read full story |
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 | Mercury Rising | 13 December 2007 | | While the name Favre-Leuba does not reverberate around the horological halls with a ringing familiarity, the brand does possess a heritage that marks it as one of the oldest watch producers. Read full story |
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 | Rap, Bling, Drugs and Money | 13 December 2007 | | A Detroit drug syndicate, a multimillion-dollar money laundering scandal and a host of diamond-encrusted celebrities; it sounds like the latest hip-hop video, whereas in fact it’s the emerging case against Jacob Arabov, aka Jacob the Jeweler, aka The King of Bling. Read full story |
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 | A Modernist Movement | 13 December 2007 | | Nestor Ferronato is a Milan-based artist who is creating a vibrant new interpretation of the well-defined structural aesthetics of horology. Read full story |
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 | A Royal Encounter | 13 December 2007 | | It would have escaped few people’s notice that November heralded the grand opening the newly restored St. Read full story |
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 | Once, Twice, Thrice! | 13 December 2007 | | For those of a fickle disposition, who feel the watch they put on in the morning has a disobliging habit of being the watch they take off in the evening, relief might have arrived with the Piaget Magic Hour. Read full story |
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 | Montana Class | 13 December 2007 | | The Bozeman Watch Company is the all American brand. Read full story |
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 | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | 11 December 2007 | | Cape Juby stands as a lonely, picturesque outpost caught between the endless immensity of the sea and the vast arid wastes of the Moroccan Sahara. Read full story |
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 | Breguet's Missing Masterpiece | 15 November 2007 | | The famed Marie-Antoinette watch, long held as Breguet’s masterpiece, has reappeared after being lost to the world for 25 years. Read full story |
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 | The Emporer's New Watch | 12 November 2007 | | The September ‘Only Watch’ auction’s reputation as a showcase for the new, the bold and the daring was pushed to the limit with DeWitt’s contribution. Read full story |
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 | Extreme Femininity | 12 November 2007 | | Bell & Ross pride themselves on their four-point design formula: readability, functionality, precision and water resistance, with the BR01 standing as the epitome of this no-frills approach to watchmaking. Read full story |
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 | Off to the Movies | 11 November 2007 | | The 64th Venice Film Festival enjoyed its week and half of cinematic celebrations at the beginning of September and once again Jaeger LeCoultre took charge as the event sponsors. Read full story |
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 | Watches of the Steampunk | 11 November 2007 | | For those with a leaning toward the bizarre, who feel subtlety in a timepiece is as relevant as functionality, Haruo Suekichi could be your man. Read full story |
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 | New Adventures in Glass | 11 November 2007 | | Glass is generally not a material that springs to mind when considering the design of a watch movement – too fragile, too vulnerable, too difficult to work with – and yet the idea of glass components stretches back to at least the mid 19th century. Read full story |
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 | Urwerk, Harder than Most | 11 November 2007 | | Urwerk’s iconic 103 series has added a Herculean new member to its ranks, the 103. Read full story |
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 | Aliens | 11 November 2007 | | Beam me up, Scotty, and materialise me an Android watch! Built upon the guiding principle of combining traditional watchmaking with the aesthetics of cutting edge modernity, Wing Liang began designing Android watches in 1991 and his futuristic timepieces have been a soaring enterprise ever since. Read full story |
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 | The basic building blocks | 11 November 2007 | | For many the very concept of dismantling a carefully created timepiece before reassembling the parts into the shape of a motorbike is near heresy. Read full story |
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 | Acquisitions | 11 November 2007 | | Its interesting times in the watch industry no doubt, particularly with the astronomic growth of China as an export market. Read full story |
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 | Seabed Shenanigans | 10 November 2007 | | Over the past decade the Internet has taken an unprecedented hold on our lives and with so much business now being conducted primarily in digital hyperspace, emphasis has been on web designer to provide an increasingly complex and interactive experience for visitors. Read full story |
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 | Bear's Choice | 30 October 2007 | | Anyone who’s seen his Channel 4 series Born Survivor will know that Bear Grylls is a bit of an outdoors type. Read full story |
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 | Jean Richard hits the track | 05 October 2007 | | JeanRichard’s ongoing involvement with the American Le Mans racing series took a new turn recently, with the announcement of a new sponsorship deal with the Autocon Motorsports team. Read full story |
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 | Parigi-Pechino 2007 | 22 August 2007 | | Blancpain’s to the right of them, Wyler’s to the left of them. Read full story |
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 | Cuervo Celebrates | 22 August 2007 | | Revived Cuban watch brand Cuervo y Sobrinos celebrates its 125th anniversary this year – a milestone marked with élan on 27th June in Madrid. Read full story |
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 | France Gets Chronometer Certification | 22 August 2007 | | When COSC decided in 2003 that it would only award ‘chronometer’ certification to watches made in Switzerland, German jeweller Wempe wasted no time in setting-up the German equivalent at a refurbished observatory in Glashütte, Saxony (see ‘Testing Ground, Issue 22). Read full story |
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 | Mazzuoli’s a Dark Horse | 22 August 2007 | | This year’s all-black craze continues apace with Giuliano Mazzuoli’s new version of his Manometro watch. Read full story |
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 | Another all-TAG Podium | 21 August 2007 | | At the time of writing, all three of TAG Heuer’s Formula 1 ambassadors occupy the top of the driver’s championship, meaning a least one orange-faced chronograph has waved proudly from every podium of the season so far – not least from the wrist of McLaren wonderboy Lewis Hamilton. Read full story |
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 | Jump In, the Ice Caps Aren't Fine | 21 August 2007 | | In his new role as Villemont Brand Director, Jorgen Amundsen is leading from the front, all the way to the North Pole – a locale with which he is familiar of course, being the spiritual and ancestral home of his old Amundsen Oslo watch brand, now absorbed into the Villemont Group. Read full story |
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 | 'Swiss Made' to Mean (a Bit) More | 21 August 2007 | | The inscription ‘Swiss Made’ on a watch dial indicates not, as might reasonably be assumed, that the watch was ‘Made in Switzerland’, but simply that at least 50% of its production cost was generated there (see ‘Face Value’, Issue 25, p. Read full story |
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 | Graham Stuck In A Ruck | 21 July 2007 | | The very day after scoring England’s winning try against France in the Six Nations, Mike Tindall was announced as Graham watches’ new UK ambassador. Read full story |
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 | Ebel signs-up with Arsenal FC | 18 July 2007 | | One of Thierry Henry’s last acts as Captain of Arsenal, before transferring to FC Barcelona for £16. Read full story |
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 | Robbery Scare at G-P | 18 July 2007 | | A mere 48 hours after every watch was stolen from Girard-Perregaux’s Museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the entire haul was safely recovered by police on July 7th. Read full story |
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 | Glycine in the UK | 05 July 2007 | | The sighs of relief you can hear are coming from the legion fans of Glycine, who have heard The Watch Gallery will finally be taking-on the brand in the UK. Read full story |
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 | City Clock Unveiled | 06 June 2007 | | A rare new public clock was unveiled at Newgate Street in the City of London by the Lord Mayor John Stuttard on 31st May. Read full story |
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 | By Stirling Moss | 06 June 2007 | | Many watch brands have close ties to the world of motorsport, cars and their drivers, but few can match the credibility of Kobold Watches, which despite its youth (and indeed that of its 28-year-old founder, Michael Kobold), has secured no less a legend than Sir Stirling Moss to help develop its latest watch. Read full story |
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 | Daytona in Black | 02 May 2007 | | Bamford & Sons has followed-up its PVD-treated Submariners and GMT Masters with an exclusive collection of custom Daytona chronographs – the latest in a line of see-it-and-want-it products from the high-class boys' toys and clothes boutique, which have included sterling-silver iPods and bespoke-colour Powerbooks. Read full story |
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 | Blog from Geneva | 18 April 2007 | | Following the announcement in January that Montblanc was to be the principal brand benefiting from Richemont's latest acquisition, Fabrique d’Horlogerie Minerva, the first results of the match were revealed to British press on Monday at the SIHH. Read full story |
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 | Blog of Geneva #1 | 17 April 2007 | | The first jawdropper of Geneva's invite-only SIHH 'salon' is from Girard-Perregaux: a Vintage 1945 tourbillon model with Vegas-style slotmachine rollers! The 'game' is set in motion by pulling the handle on the right side of the Jackpot's case. Read full story |
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 | Omegamania triumphs | 17 April 2007 | | The keenly anticipated ‘Omegamania’ sale, hosted by world’s leading horological auctioneer Antiquorum, generated a total of SFr. Read full story |
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 | Blog from Geneva | 17 April 2007 | | During the SIHH fair, several niche brands hold 'satellite' exhibits in and around Geneva, beyond the closeted, eggshell-white halls of Palexpo. Read full story |
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 | Blog from Basel | 14 April 2007 | | Last year, Bvlgari's first in-house calibres - courtesy of sister brand Daniel Roth - were launched in two Assioma models to deserved applause. Read full story |
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 | Blog from Basel #5 | 14 April 2007 | | It's as good as, if not better than we expected. Read full story |
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 | GP kits out boucheron | 21 March 2007 | | Boucheron has entered into a special partnership with haute horloger Girard-Perregaux, who will provide various interpretations of its GP 4000 calibre for a new range of Boucheron watches. Read full story |
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 | Maurice Lacroix's lone spirit | 23 November 2006 | | Maurice Lacroix has taken its biggest step yet towards absolute independence by establishing its very own workshops to manufacture complex watch components. Read full story |
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 | Parmigiani is 30 | 01 October 2006 | | To celebrate Michel Parmigiani's 30 years in restoration and watchmaking, his brand will produce an exceptional new edition of the Kalpa XL Tourbillon, called the ‘Chiaroscuro’. Read full story |
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 | Baume & Mercier gets retro | 24 May 2006 | | Retro styling seems perfectly suited to Baume & Mercier's reinvented image, if the success of last year's Classima Executives range, launched for the brand's 175th, is anything to go by. Read full story |
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 | Technocolour | 01 July 2005 | | Chanel and Rado’s corner of the ceramic watch market is now being threatened by a new innovation from Technomarine. Read full story |
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