Tourbillon Boutiques

Tourbillon Boutiques is a leading boutique brand for luxury watches under the umbrella of the Swatch Group. Tourbillon Boutiques can be found on almost every continent. Tourbillon Boutiques offer a wide range of luxury watches manufactured by the Swatch Group.

Feminine and Exclusive: 9 Luxury Watches for Ladies

At the big watch fairs, the stars of the show tend to be complicated watches for men, but each year watch brands also debut plenty of ladies’ watches, many made at the same level of craftsmanship as their male counterparts. We look at some recently released ladies’ watch collections. Baume and Mercier’s Linea collection has...

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Apr 21, 2015 by WatchTime

Fratello Friday: My Picks for Last Year’s 5 Top Watches

It’s Fratello Friday! Since 2014 started a good week ago, and this year’s new watches start rolling out at the SIHH watch fair just over a week from now, I thought it was time to list my Top 5 favorite watches introduced in 2013.

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Apr 10, 2015 by Robert-Jan Broer

Omega Collectors Gather in Amsterdam for “Moonwatch Only” Book Launch

If you are into collecting Omega Speedmasters like I am, you need a good reference book. Even though there is a lot of really useful information that can be found online (for instance, in the Fratello Watches Speedy Tuesday section), the world of collecting Omega Speedmaster watches has up until recently lacked a good “standard”...

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Oct 3, 2014 by Robert-Jan Broer

3 Standout Complicated Watches from Hong Kong “Watches & Wonders” Fair

Hong Kong’s inaugural “Watches and Wonders” salon, held September 25-28, featured 13 luxury watch brands, several of which launched significant new models at the fair. Here is a look at three of them, a perpetual calendar with tourbillon from A. Lange & Söhne, and minute repeaters from Vacheron Constantin and Audemars Piguet.

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Oct 10, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

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

Richard Mille’s New RM 011 Brings Another F1 Material to Watchmaking

Richard Mille has long been at the forefront of introducing new materials into watchmaking, particularly those used in the world of Formula One auto racing. At this year’s SIHH, the brand introduced yet another first in that area: the new RM 011 Flyback Chronograph, the first watch with a case made of brown silicon nitride.

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Feb 12, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Ralph Lauren Watch & Jewelry Joins Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie

Ralph Lauren Watch & Jewelry has, in a few short years, joined its more well-established brethren in the Richemont Group as a full-fledged member of the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie, making it the 28th partner-brand of the FHH.

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Feb 7, 2013 by WatchTime

Elegant Accessories: Pens for Watch Lovers

Watch companies have upped the ante in the quality of their branded accessories — particularly in the case of fine writing implements, a category near and dear to the hearts of many watch collectors. In this 2009 column by Fine Pens writer Jan DiVincenzo, the first in our online archive of WatchTime’s popular lifestyle columns,...

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Jul 30, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Omega and Tourbillon Boutiques Present Apollo and Gemini in Las Vegas

Astronauts from the landmark Gemini and Apollo NASA programs will join Omega and Tourbillon in Las Vegas to celebrate an exhibit featuring rare artifacts from the iconic space missions. The exhibit will showcase a Lunar Rover, an Apollo 10 space suit and Mars Rover, and Omega Speedmaster watches. The exhibit runs from October 20th to...

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Oct 18, 2011 by WatchTime

Tiffany Watch Co. Ltd. Launches Tiffany Gallery Line

Tiffany Watch Co. Ltd. is launching a new line of Art Deco-inspired watches called Tiffany Gallery. The curved, polished, 18k red-gold case is available in three sizes: 19mm, 22mm and 26mm. The bezel and central hour track are set with full-cut diamonds – 109 are used on the 26mm model. The classic “exploding” Arabic numerals...

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Oct 3, 2011 by WatchTime

Scenes From An OpeningRichard Mille’s First USA Boutique

In the time it takes some brands to develop a movement and bring it to market, Richard Mille built a globally-recognized brand known for bold aesthetics, high complications, and Formula 1-style technology. Last week the brand celebrated the opening of its first USA boutique, and WatchTime was there.

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Jan 9, 2011 by WatchTime

Rotonde de Cartier Astrotourbillon

At SIHH last week Cartier launched the new Rotonde de Cartier Astrotourbillon with their new manual winding movement, Caliber 9451 MC, designed and created by Cartier watchmakers. This unusual movement is the product of 5 years of development at the Cartier Manufacture in La Chaux-de-Fonds.

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Jan 29, 2010 by WatchTime

Vincent Perriard Steps Down as Concord Global President

Movado Group, Inc. (NYSE: MOV) announced today that Vincent Perriard, Global President of Concord, will leave the company. The Concord brand was re-launched with bold new designs in 2007 and their C1 Quantum Gravity Tourbillon won the design award at the 2008 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve. Concord will continue to develop the Quantum Gravity...

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Jun 12, 2009 by WatchTime

Tourbillon Boutique Opens on Wall Street

The Swatch Group’s multi-brand Tourbillon boutique is now open for business on Wall Street. Along with the Omega boutique on Fifth Avenue, this is the second upscale Swatch Group-owned retail location to open in New York City in April. The Wall Street location is the second U.S.A. Tourbillon boutique; the first is in Southern California’s...

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May 3, 2009 by WatchTime