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Audemars Piguet Announces New, Ultramodern Museum

Audemars Piguet, the oldest luxury watch company still owned by its founding families, has announced plans to extend its historic headquarters building to incorporate a new museum called the Maison des Fondateurs, a “radically contemporary” new structure that will be naturally integrated into the surrounding Vallée de Joux landscape.

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Jun 19, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

Sponsored: Artel Rotec Introduces New Sky Series

Independent watchmaker Artel Rotec is introducing its second collection, the Sky Series, this month, with the bold timepiece serving as a worthy follow-up to its V-Series limited edition sports watch lineup. Artel Rotec first formed in 2018, when designer and longtime watch collector Matthew Roknipour launched the brand as a family owned, independent watch company...

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Jan 25, 2023 by WatchTime

Swatch Sistem51 to Launch in the U.S. on July 1

To those outside of Switzerland awaiting your opportunity to purchase the Swatch Sistem51 — the eminently affordable watch with an innovative, Swiss-made mechanical movement introduced at Baselworld 2013 — your wait is nearly over. The Swatch Group today announced that the Sistem51 will launch at a “pop-in-shop” at the Swatch flagship boutique in New York’s...

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Jun 16, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

Couture 2014: Bell & Ross B-Rocket Watches

The JCK and Couture watch and jewelry fairs are winding down, but we’re still covering some of the cool watches that we saw in Las Vegas this week. At the Couture show, we got a look at the new Bell & Ross BR 01 and BR 03 B-Rocket watches, as well as the aviation-inspired B-Rocket...

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Jun 1, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

Baselworld 2014: Glashütte Original Debuts New Movement in Seventies Chronograph Panorama Date

The Glashütte Original Seventies Chronograph Panorama Date, introduced last week at Baselworld 2014, features an entirely new chronograph movement, Caliber 37-02, which was designed and manufactured in-house at the brand’s manufacture in Saxony. The new watch becomes the latest in the vintage-inspired Glashütte Original Seventies collection.

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Apr 5, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

Baselworld 2014: Blancpain Bathyscaphe Flyback Chronograph

Blancpain introduced a modern re-issue of its famed divers’ watch, the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe, at last year’s Baselworld. For Baselworld 2014, the brand has added a new model to the vintage-inspired Bathyscaphe family, the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Flyback Chronograph.

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Mar 28, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

Baselworld 2014: Bell & Ross BR 03-94 Carbon Orange

Bell & Ross, continuing the aeronautical themes of its Aviation and Vintage collections, presented at Baselworld 2014 the new Bell & Ross BR 03-94 Carbon Orange, a limited edition of 500 pieces.

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Mar 27, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

Baselworld 2014: Live Images of Patek’s New Booth

2013 saw the debut of the newly remodeled Hall 1 at Baselworld, as well as new booths for most of the brands. So everyone noticed when Patek Philippe did not update their booth. The reason soon became clear – they were saving the new booth for this year, which marks the brand’s 175th birthday. Today...

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Mar 27, 2014 by WatchTime

Watch Insider: Patek Philippe to Unveil New Booth at Baselworld 2014

Baselworld 2014 is almost upon us, and I have continued to preview new watches and cover other news on my blog, Watch-Insider.com. This week Patek Philippe, one of Baselworld’s most popular exhibitors, announced that it will be debuting an all-new booth at the fair.

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Mar 22, 2014 by Alexander Linz

Monochrome Monday: New Tudor Watches We’d Love to See at Baselworld 2014

In Last Week’s “Monochrome Monday” post, the Monochrome team gave you our ideas on what could (and, in our opinion, should) be Rolex’s new models at the upcoming Baselworld fair. Tudor, having been in the shadow of its big-brother brand Rolex for several decades, has been mounting a rather successful comeback in recent years. Tudor...

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Mar 17, 2014 by Frank Geelen

Hublot Breaks Ground on Its New Manufacture

To accommodate its continued growth, and to further assist in the verticalization of its watch production, Hublot began construction of a second building that will more than double the surface area of its existing manufacture in Nyon, Switzerland.

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Mar 5, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

Ticking the Blues: 2 New Girard-Perregaux Watches With Blue Dials

In case you haven’t noticed, blue is the hot color in the watch world, recently appearing all across the horological spectrum on dials, bezels, straps, et cetera. Recently, Girard-Perregaux reminded us that its founder, Jean-Francois Bautte, was one of the first watchmakers to incorporate the color into his timepieces.

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Feb 25, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2014: Piaget Altiplano 900P – Updated with Live Photos

For more than half a century Switzerland’s Piaget has specialized in manufacturing ultra-thin mechanical watches and watch movements. Now it has produced what it says is “the thinnest mechanical watch ever.” The new Piaget Altiplano 900P has a total case thickness of 3.65 mm, 9.9 percent less than the thinnest mechanical watch currently on the...

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Jan 22, 2014 by Joe Thompson

SIHH 2014 Day 1: Jaeger-LeCoultre Highlights

It would take a small book to adequately describe Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Hybris Mechanica 11. But, as this is a day-of-the-show summary, we will have to hit a few of the high points. This watch has eight separate patents, six of which are developments created exclusively for this watch. The Hybris Mechanica 11 is equipped with an...

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Jan 21, 2014 by WatchTime

SIHH 2014 Preview: Watch Insider Update on the Roger Dubuis Watches Launching at SIHH

News and photos of watches debuting at next week’s SIHH watch fair continue to roll in. In this article from my blog, Watch-Insider.com, I cover new the first new models from Roger Dubuis, a brand known for its rather eccentric style but is focusing more on classical design values this year. Here is a teaser...

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Jan 14, 2014 by Alexander Linz

Pre-SIHH: 3 New Watches from Panerai, Lange, & Jaeger-LeCoultre

Geneva’s SIHH watch fair is only a month away, and the luxury watch brands exhibiting there continue to offer sneak peeks at several of their new timepieces set to debut in 2014. This week we take a look at three new watches from Panerai, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and A. Lange & Söhne.

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Dec 16, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Watch Review: Girard-Perregaux 1966 Full Calendar

As we get closer to a new year, we continue our series of reviews on calendar watches, excerpted from a feature in WatchTime’s December 2010 issue. This week, we offer a look at the Girard-Perregaux 1966 Full Calendar, with original photos by Nik Schölzel.

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Dec 2, 2013 by Jens Koch

SIHH 2014 Preview: 3 New Chronographs From Baume & Mercier Clifton Collection

Next year’s SIHH watch fair in Geneva is still nearly two months away, but the watch brands exhibiting there have already begun to offer sneak previews of their new timepieces. The first to do so is Baume & Mercier, which has released info and photos of three new chronographs in its recently introduced Clifton collection.

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Nov 20, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Longines Heritage 1968

The watch designs of the 1960s and 1970s have had quite a resurgence lately (check out our Watch Insider’s list of vintage re-edition watches here), and now Longines joins the retro party with its new Heritage 1968, a square-cased timepiece inspired by a vintage watch from the Longines museum in the brand’s ancestral home of...

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Nov 18, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

First Look: Emporio Armani’s New Mechanical Watch, the Armani Meccanico (Video)

Following in the footsteps of brands like Hermès, Gucci, Chanel, and others, Emporio Armani has joined the growing club of fashion houses that are producing high-end watches with mechanical movements. Click here to find information on, and watch an official brand video for, the new Emporio Armani Meccanico collection, debuting this fall.

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Nov 13, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

The Big Fix: Behind Girard-Perregaux’s Makeover

The new Girard-Perregaux Chrono Hawk goes under the microscope in WatchTime’s November-December issue, on sale now. In this feature from the June 2013 issue, we delve into how new Sowind Group CEO Michele Sofisti plans to cure what’s been ailing that Swiss high-horology brand.

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Oct 22, 2013 by Norma Buchanan

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