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    • Louis Moinet

    French watchmaker Louis Moinet (1768 – 1853) has developed the first chronograph after studying watch making and refining his watch knowledge over many years. At a young age Louis Moinet became interested in watches and often worked with professional watchmakers to learn more about horology.

    While being a professor in Paris Louis Moinet connected with his a master watchmaker he knew from many years ago. Moinet soon focused entirely on watch making and traveled to Switzerland extensively. He became President of the Chronometry Society of Paris, and a member of other such associations. When Moinet met Abraham-Louis Breguet, the two collaborated immediately. The first ever chronograph followed thereafter, called “compteur de tierces’ by Moinet. Wikipedia cites that ‘according to hallmarks on the dust cover, the chronograph was started in 1815 and completed the following year’. Louis Moinet optimized watch making techniques and invented many new workflows and tools. Almost by accident, based on his private interest in astronomy, he invented a counter in the shape of a watch displaying 60ths of a second. Notable customers of Louis Moinet were Napoleon Bonapartes, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe.

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    A Record-Breaking Patek Philippe Highlights Top 5 Watches from Only Watch 2013

    The fifth edition of the biennial “Only Watch” auction took place over the weekend at the Hermitage Hotel in Monaco. When the final hammer fell, the auction of unique timepieces had raised 5,066,000 euros for research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and a Patek Philippe Ref. 5004T fetched the highest price ever paid for a modern...

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    Oct 1, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

    Sponsored: The Return of the Legendary Hanhart 417 ES

    The reissue of the Hanhart 417 ES marks the return of a legend among wristwatches. More than 60 years ago, the original model served as the first pilot’s chronograph for the German armed forces. Today Hanhart combines the watch’s iconic historical design with the most modern production techniques to produce a robust chronograph suitable for...

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    Oct 20, 2021 by WatchTime

    Breguet Celebrates “Tourbillon Day,” Announces Dates for New Exhibition

    Breguet instituted a new holiday on the horological events calendar this week. On June 26, the brand celebrated “Tourbillon Day,” the anniversary of the day in 1801 that the first tourbillon, created by the brand’s namesake, master watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet, in 1801.

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    Jun 27, 2013 by WatchTime

    Only Watch Auction 2013 Preview: 5 Unique Timepieces

    The fifth edition of Only Watch, the charity timepiece auction held biannually in Monaco, takes place on September 28, and news and photos of several of the one-of-a-kind watches to be auctioned off have started to be released, including models from Breguet, Harry Winston, Girard-Perregaux, Laurent Ferrier, and Piaget.

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    Jun 26, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

    Carl F. Bucherer Marks 125 Years With New Manero Tourbillon Limited Edition

    This year marks 125 years since Swiss jeweler Carl Friedrich Bucherer opened up his first watch and jewelry shop in Lucerne, on the way to designing and creating his first timepiece in 1919. To commemorate the anniversary, the modern Carl F. Bucherer watch brand has launched the new Manero Tourbillon Limited Edition.

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    Jun 19, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

    New Watches on Display at JCK Las Vegas

    WatchTime spent the weekend in Las Vegas, but the slots and poker machines took a back seat to chronographs, tourbillons and GMTs as we discovered new watches, several of which we missed at Baselworld, at the JCK Watch and Jewelry Fair at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. Below are some of the highlights.

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    Jun 3, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

    Watch Insider: My Top 10 Watches from Baselworld 2013

    The Baselworld 2013 watch fair has come to and end, and now, having seen and covered dozens of new watches on my blog, Watch-Insider.com, my colleagues at WatchTime have asked me to name my favorite new timepieces from this year’s show. Click here to see my top 10 watches from the most well-established brands.

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    May 19, 2013 by Alexander Linz

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

    The May-June issue of WatchTime is in stores now (and also on the iPad), featuring a test of the Cartier Calibre Chronograph, 39 new watches introduced at the Geneva watch fairs, a profile of the new Girard-Perregaux, a head-to-head test of manufacture chronographs from Jaeger-LeCoultre and Montblanc, and more. Click here for highlights from the...

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    May 8, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

    Vintage Breguet Timepieces On Display at New York’s Frick Collection (Video)

    New York City’s Frick Collection, the art museum founded by Henry Clay Frick, is hosting an exhibition of historic timepieces, sponsored by luxury watch brand Montres Breguet and featuring several clocks and pocketwatches created by its namesake, legendary horologist Abraham-Louis Breguet and his son Antoine-Louis Breguet.

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    Apr 18, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

    Basel Preview: Chronoswiss Celebrates 30 Years With New Régulateur 30 Watch

    For Chronoswiss, the year 2013 marks two important anniversaries: it is the 30th anniversary of the brand’s founding and also the year that the brand’s flagship watch model, the Régulateur, turns 25. The new, limited-edition Régulateur 30 watch, which debuts at Baselworld next week, pays tribute to both milestones.

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    Apr 17, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

    Million Dollar Club 2012: Watch Advertising at All-Time High

    In an exclusive report in the upcoming May-June issue of WatchTime, we reveal which watch brands are spending the most on advertising in 2012, a record year for watch-company ad spending, and we provide a complete list of the 60 brands that spent more than $1 million on ads.

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    Apr 8, 2013 by Joe Thompson

    Only Watch Auction Returns to Monaco in September

    The fifth Only Watch, a charity auction of unique timepieces, returns on September 28th, taking place once again in Monaco and conducted by Antiquorum Auctioneers.

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    Mar 27, 2013 by WatchTime

    Louis Moinet: Rewriting Chronograph History

    The Swiss watch brand Louis Moinet has unveiled an artifact that may change how we look at the history of timekeeping — a timekeeping device from the early 19th century, invented by the brand’s namesake, that may be the first chronograph ever created.

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    Mar 27, 2013 by Jay Deshpande

    Baselworld Preview: Cuervo y Sobrinos Historiador Flameante

    More news and photos of new watches debuting at April’s Baselworld watch fair continue to flow into our in-box. Here’s one of the latest, from Cuervo y Sobrinos, the “Swiss brand with Latin soul,” originally founded in Cuba: the Historiador Flameante, a classical, ultra-thin watch based on a 1950s design.

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    Mar 26, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

    The Atmos Hermes Clock

    Hermes, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and Les Cristalleries de St. Louis have combined their watchmaking and glassmaking expertise to produce the Atmos Hermes Clock, a table clock that “lives on air.”

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    Mar 12, 2013 by WatchTime

    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

    RGM Marks 20 Years With Third In-House Caliber

    RGM, the pioneering Pennsylvania-based watch brand founded in 1992 by Roland G. Murphy, turns 20 years old in 2012. Murphy commemorated the anniversary in the manner he knows best: by developing his brand’s third in-house mechanical movement, called Caliber 20, and outfitting it in a new watch that RGM introduced at January’s Geneva Time Exhibition.

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    Feb 18, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

    Louis Moinet Celebrates Jules Verne’s 185th Birthday

    While Winter Storm Nemo is hitting the Northeast, Louis Moinet is celebrating another Nemo — namely, the legendary sea captain of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. To celebrate the author’s 185th birthday, the brand has released a video highlighting the Jules Verne Instrument III, a high-precision chronograph inspired by the fictional Captain...

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    Feb 8, 2013 by WatchTime

    Chopard L.U.C. Lunar One

    Chopard introduced the first L.U.C Lunar One Grande Complication — one of the most prestigious models in its haute horlogerie L.U.C. collection, named for founder Louis-Ulysse Chopard — in 2005. In keeping with the brand’s recent revamp of that collection, the Lunar One, a perpetual calendar with an orbital moon-phase display, has been released in...

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    Jan 10, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

    Cuervo y Sobrinos Introduces 1950s-Inspired Historiador Chronograph

    Cuervo y Sobrinos is unique among Swiss watch brands in that it is the only one founded in Cuba, and even recently opened a flagship boutique in Havana. Many of the company’s modern timepieces are based on designs from its pre-embargo heyday, including, most recently, the first chronograph in its Art Deco-inspired Historiador collection.

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    Dec 19, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

    Breguet Brings Guilloché to Art Basel Miami

    Breguet joined in on last week’s festivities at Art Basel in Miami, where other brands, including Girard-Perregaux and Roger Dubuis, celebrated the arts and watchmaking. Breguet brought the ancient art of guilloché to Miami Beach for the citywide event.

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    Dec 12, 2012 by WatchTime
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