Greubel Forsey

Greubel Forsey is a small high-end luxury watch brand that was founded in 2004 by Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey, and is based in Switzerland. In 2006 the Richemont Group acquired a 20% stake in the company. Greubel Forsey has invented a wide array of tourbillon-based watches, for example the Double Tourbillon 30° (DT30°), Quadruple Tourbillon à Différentiel, Tourbillon 24 Secondes Incliné.

IBG 2014: Highlight Watches from 3 Boutique Watch Brands

WatchTime’s 2014 “Inside Basel.Geneva” event tour wraps up this week in San Francisco (October 2). West coach watch aficionados who attend this final IBG show of the year will have the opportunity to see and try on many new watches, including several standout models from respected indie watch brands F.P. Journe, Greubel Forsey and Parmigiani...

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Sep 30, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

Highlight Watches From WatchTime’s IBG 2014 Watch Collector Events

The sponsoring luxury watch brands for WatchTime’s “Inside Basel.Geneva” series of watch collector events have really strutted their stuff this year. As noted by WatchTime’s IBG event partner, watch collector and aficionado Jeff Kingston, not only did each brand have a broad selection from its collection on display at the opening event in Chicago —...

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Sep 12, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

WatchTime Presents 7 Watches Over $1 Million

New York City (NY); Watchtime.com, the website of America’s best-selling watch magazine, WatchTime, presents seven of the world’s most expensive luxury watches over $1 million: https://www.watchtime.com/blog/million-dollar-watches/ This unique list of amazing timepieces includes: Vacheron Constantin Tour de I’Ile, a limited edition watch of only seven pieces, which celebrated the brand’s 250th anniversary. It has two...

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Apr 3, 2014 by Carina Friedrich

SIHH 2014: A Small Selection of Images

Each year I attend SIHH and like every digital camera owner, I take far more images than I will ever use. Some will appear in upcoming stories. Most will never appear on your screens. To break the monotony of endless posts about new watches, here are a few images selected for your enjoyment. They include...

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Jan 22, 2014 by WatchTime

SIHH 2014: Greubel Forsey QP à Équation

The perpetual calendar timepieces on our wrists today are not only among the oldest horological complications, they are descended from devices used by the clergy during the Middle Ages to calculate seasonal feasts. For 2014, Greubel Forsey will create a unique perpetual calendar combined with an Equation of Time, all in an easy to read...

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Jan 22, 2014 by WatchTime

SIHH 2014 Preview: 10 New Watches Launching at SIHH

This year’s SIHH watch fair, held in Geneva, starts on Monday. If you’re a regular visitor to WatchTime.com, you’ve seen that several watches making their debut at SIHH have already been unveiled before the event. To prepare you for our upcoming on-site coverage of the SIHH, we’re giving you a taste of watches from ten...

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Jan 18, 2014 by WatchTime

SIHH 2014 Preview: 3 Tourbillon Watches from Vacheron Constantin, Greubel Forsey, & Ralph Lauren

With less than two weeks before the 2014 SIHH watch fair kicks off in Geneva, the luxury watch brands exhibiting there continue to send sneak peeks of several new watches set to debut at the show this year. This week, we take a look at three new watches from three very different brands but with...

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Jan 9, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

Five “Uber Watches” from SIHH

There are watches and there are watches. Included in the second category are pieces so technically extravagant, so hyper-engineered that they belong to a very special club. Their prices are stratospheric. Hardly anyone will ever own one. But they are fascinating nonetheless. As always, this year’s SIHH fair in Geneva in January brought out a...

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Mar 29, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

WatchTime’s March-April Issue is On Sale Now!

The March-April issue of WatchTime is on newsstands now (and also available for the Nook, Kindle, and iPad), featuring a test of the Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra GMT, a look at new watch releases from SIHH, a visit to the Swiss watchmaking village of Le Locle, the untold story of Winston Churchill’s lost watch, a...

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Mar 14, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Seconds City: Exploring La Chaux-de-Fonds

In our March-April issue, on sale now on newsstands and for the iPad, Norma Buchanan visits the Swiss watchmaking town of Le Locle. In this feature story from our June 2009 issue, Buchanan journeys to another cradle of Swiss horology, La Chaux-de-Fonds, a town that is still, as Karl Marx described it a century and...

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Mar 11, 2013 by Norma Buchanan

SIHH Day Four: Vacheron Constantin and Ralph Lauren

Geneva’s luxurious SIHH watch fair rolls on. Here’s a taste of the new releases from two more of the exhibiting brands. Vacheron Constantin raised lots of eyebrows this year with its bold and unexpected (at least by those of us in the watch press) decision to focus its 2013 SIHH novelties entirely on ladies. That’s...

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Jan 24, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2013: Greubel Forsey

Alexander Linz continues his SIHH coverage at watch-insider.com.

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Jan 23, 2013 by WatchTime

TAG Heuer Takes Top Prize at 12th Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix

The prize-giving ceremony of the 12th annual Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix (GPHG) — the luxury-watch world’s version of Oscar night — took place at the Grand Théâtre de Genève on November 15. This year, it was TAG Heuer’s high-tech Mikrogirder model that took home the prestigious Aiguille d’Or grand prize.

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Nov 26, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Stephen Forsey to be Keynote Speaker at AWCI 2012

Fans of both classical and modern horology, take note: the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute (AWCI) will be hosting its 2012 Convention and Educational Symposium on August 1st – 5th at the Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center in Colorado, and this year’s headliners represent two generations of high watchmaking. Stephen Forsey, co-founder with Robert Greubel of the...

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Jul 11, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

WatchTime’s May-June Issue Is On Sale Now!

WatchTime’s May-June issue is on newsstands now, featuring a cavalcade of new watches introduced at the Baselworld watch fair and a triple-feature cover story focusing on the Omega Moonwatch, including a detailed history and a comparative watch test. Click here for highlights from the issue…

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May 14, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

2011: The Year in Review Quiz, Part II

This week it’s time for Part II of our 2011 Year in Review Quiz. Have you been taking notes? Celebrate the end of 2011 with this little quiz, where we present 12 questions about news stories from the past year. As always, the answers appear at the end. And remember, your term papers are due...

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Dec 11, 2011 by WatchTime

2011: The Year in Review Quiz, Part 1

It’s December, and you know what that means. It’s time to look back. Have you been paying attention for the past 12 months? You knew there would be a quiz, right? Say goodbye to 2011 with this little test the focuses on some of the most (and least) important stories of the year. As always,...

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Dec 5, 2011 by WatchTime

Greubel Forsey Wins the 2011 International Chronometry Competition

Greubel Forsey’s Double Tourbillon 30° Technique (DT30T) has won the 2011 International Chronometry Competition held at the Museum of Horology in Le Locle, Switzerland. The DT30T, featuring a 60-second tourbillon cage inclined at 30° rotating inside a second four-minute tourbillon cage, scored 915 points out of a possible 1,000 to claim first place both in...

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Oct 24, 2011 by WatchTime

Sotheby’s Autumn Sale Includes Unique Patek Philippe Reference 1518, Historical Rolexes, and Much More

Sotheby’s autumn sale of Important Watches on Sunday November 13 in Geneva will be spearheaded by the “Clarin Mustad 1518” – a unique Patek Philippe reference 1518 perpetual calendar chronograph that is estimated to sell for between $890,000 and $1,330,000. The sale also includes two Rolex wristwatches that belonged to leaders of the post-World War...

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Oct 14, 2011 by WatchTime

Two Pateks Top $1 Million At Christie’s Hong Kong Sale

A Patek Philippe Ref. 2499R, 3rd Series, brought $1,210,466 at Christie’s May 30 Hong Kong sale. The perpetual calendar chronograph with moon phases in pink gold was manufactured in 1971. A Skymoon tourbillon Ref. 5002P with twelve complications manufactured in 2008 brought $1,164,008. Both sales were within pre-sale estimates.

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Jun 1, 2011 by WatchTime

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