The inaugural WatchTime Los Angeles fair — a two-day horological extravaganza at Downtown Los Angeles’ trendy Hudson Loft — wrapped on Saturday. If you weren’t among the more than 400 West Coast watch connoisseurs who joined us and our partners for the event, here’s a list of 27 highlight timepieces that our 27 sponsoring watch brands exhibited there. Click on each watch’s name for a link to our detailed preview article, and we hope to see many of you at our next big watch-collector weekend!
Armin Strom Masterpiece 1 Dual Time Resonance Sapphire
Bremont Supermarine S300 White
Chronoswiss Sirius Chronograph Moon Phase
Cyrus Klepcys Vertical Skeleton Tourbillon
Czapek Place Vendôme Etincelles
F.P. Journe Tourbillon Souverain Vertical
Grand Seiko Elegance Collection
Greubel Forsey GMT Quadruple Tourbillon
Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Duoface
MB&F Legacy Machine FlyingT
Montblanc Heritage Perpetual Calendar
Parmigiani Fleurier Quantième Perpétuel Rétrograde
RGM Watch Co. PS-801 Skeleton
Romain Gauthier Insight Micro-Rotor White Gold
Zenith Defy El Primero Double Tourbillon
In addition to the hundreds of timepieces, many of them making their U.S. debut at the show, guests were also treated to a series of panels and presentations tailored to the watch aficionado. Among them was a gathering of independent watchmakers and watch brand founders moderated by WatchBox’s Time Mosso (details on our horological rock star panelists here); noted collector and watch expert Jeff Kingston’s in-depth “Chronograph 101” talk; and a roundtable discussion about watch collecting in Hollywood, co-hosted by The Hollywood Reporter’s Degen Pener and our own senior editor Mark Bernardo, and featuring a group of notable figures in the entertainment and watch collecting worlds including actor/director Fred Savage and red carpet stylist Jeanne Yang. For the rundown on our entire all-star panel (below), click here.
Stay tuned to WatchTime.com this week for more details and on-site photos from WatchTime Los Angeles.