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Celebrating a partnership established in 2008, Audemars Piguet released a limited series inspired by racing car last October: the Royal Oak Offshore Jarno Trulli. This timekeeper in forged carbon, a material that the Brassus brand was the first to use, also includes titanium and a bezel in cermet, elements that evoke racing car. But outside [...]

“The Valley,” is how the inhabitants of the high plateau of the Jura mountains refer to the “Vallée de Joux,” their slice of nature perched at 1,000 meters in altitude. Just fifty kilometers away from the Geneva airport, this magnificent region of low mountains was the cradle of the development of Swiss watchmaking in the [...]

A progression through three legendary watch collections: the Royal Oak, the Royal Oak Offshore and the Millenary. It’s also the culmination of a project carried out over an entire year by students in the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL) under the supervision of the famous French designer Ronan Bourroullec in ECAL’s Master’s Program [...]

Today, International Volant Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Haidian, announced that it has acquired all shares in Eterna AG Uhrenfabrik from F.A. Porsche Beteiligungen GmbH. Eterna was founded (under a different name) in 1856, In 1932, Eterna created a subsidiary called ETA to make movements for itself and other watch companies. ETA grew through [...]

In this Year of the Reverso, Jaeger-LeCoultre’s cult model is being produced with a brilliant blue enamel dial in a limited series of 50 pieces. The instantly-recognizable Grand Reverso case houses a manually-wound Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 822. The time is displayed on one side, with the second left free for personalization. Additional information appears below the [...]

Frédérique Constant has long been known for producing quality timepieces at reasonable prices. Now the brand is stepping into the big leagues with a limited edition tourbillon with a technically-advanced manufacture movement and a grand feu enamel dial in a rose gold case, priced at less than you might think. Find complete specs, wallpaper and [...]

After the launch of A. Lange & Söhne shops in Dresden, Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul, the brand from Saxony has opened its fifth boutique, in Hong Kong. Lange’s goal for the boutique is to bring the precision, quality and ambiance of traditional German watchmaking to its customers in an intimate and in-depth manner. A. Lange [...]

Their faces regularly appear in stories you read, but would you know them (and their brands) if you bumped into them in a watch shop? We’ve lined up a dozen high-profile CEOs to test your visual memory. So grab your favorite writing instrument and see how many you can identify. As always, the answers are [...]

At Christie’s Hong Kong sale in May, the first all-aluminium F.P. Journe Centigraphe Sport No 001 sold for an extraordinary US$465,170, close to ten times its original estimate. The sale was to raise funds to aid victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The donation ceremony took place on June 3 at the Swiss [...]

Master skeleton-designer Armin Strom puts his more than forty years of experience into the new Blue Chip Chronograph Skeleton. Weeks of patient handwork by skilled craftspeople endow these movements with significant intrinsic value, and the results are spectacular to behold. Find wallpaper and pricing inside. Armin Strom has been creating hand-skeletonized and engraved mechanical watch [...]