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Revolution Switzerland’s team joined Corum ambassador and world champion skier, Didier Cuche, recently to celebrate the launch of a new catamaran for the Just for Smiles Foundation. This unique vessel has been specially-equipped to take disabled children and young adults on sailing experiences across Switzerland’s Lake Neuchâtel. Didier Cuche poses with the Just For Smiles […]
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Another one in the series of Quickshots…the Seiko Marinemaster Spring Drive. Also another one I count as fascinating value for money catagory. Seiko is one of the under rated companies in the world of high horology. While the world fusses over the Swiss and Germans…quietly, our Japanese friends in Shiojiri have been creating amazingly beautifulRead More
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Only Watch, the bi-yearly charity auction that invites watch companies to donate one unique watch to be auctioned has been making the news recently with many of the participating brands telling the world about their unique contributions. While it is interesting from a watch lover standpoint to find out what the pieces are, we feel […]
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One of the biggest surprises this year came in a small package: the new UTTE Tourbillon from Arnold & Son, which is currently –as far as we have been able to determine –the thinnest hand-wound tourbillon in the world. The UTTE Tourbillon was not, according to Arnold & Son, specifically designed to be a record-breaker […]
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Vacheron Constantin has been a patron of the Ópera National de Paris since 2007 and the partnership has produced some fantastic works of horlogical art, including the Métier d’Art Chagall & L’Opera de Paris “Tribute to Famous Composers” (a unique piece) and as well has released the first two watches in a series of enamel masterpieces […]
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I sat down with long-time friend of REVOLUTION Maximilian Büsser this morning to experience something that quite a few of us in this industry have been anticipating for some time now. Those of you reading this, it is to be presumed, are already familiar with the watches of MB&F; - the Horological Machines that draw […]
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Carl F. Bucherer has been retailing watches since 1919, and in 2008, the firm introduced its own manufacture calibre, the CFB A1000 self-winding movement –one of the very few automatic movements in production powered by a peripheral rotor. For many enthusiasts, the CFB A1000 movement and its variants are the cornerstone of the Bucherer watch […]
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8-Days Power Reserve has always been associated with Panerai, ever since the Angelus 8-Days movement was used in many vintage Panerai watches. Panerai has announced a new 8-Days hand-wound movement, Calibre P.5000. This is not the first 8-Days in-house movement by Panerai. The P.2002 Calibre was announced several years back, with GMT and linear power […]
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Breguet has introduced what is currently –as far as we have been able to determine –the world’s thinnest self-winding tourbillon. The Classique Tourbillon Extra Thin Automatic Ref. 5377 is overall only 7mm thick –and the movement, Breguet calibre 581DR, is a mere 3mm thin. In 1801, Abraham Breguet received a patent for an invention he’d […]
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Craftwork in art watches. Cartier has been at this game for a long time, and with great success. Today’s post shows several beautiful and artistic techniques by the marque, to show off the virtuosity of their craftsmen. The lion, with marquetry. The horse in enamel painting work The fish in cloisoine And the eagle inRead More
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Capable of shifting oceans, moods, desires and feelings, the moon has such a strong influence on humankind, besides merely lighting up a dark night sky. The moon has been so powerful a force that it has sparked the interest of philosophers, scientists, historians and even divers who want to know its impact on tidal waves […]
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Today is the World Premiere of the DEEP SPACE TOURBILLON by Vianney Halter and we’ve finally been able to answer the question: What has Vianney Halter been doing for the past three years? “Sleeping mostly”, he says, “and watching lots of classic science fiction…” Indeed, what started out as a recuperative break from work […]
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Cartier’s creations have often been inspired by cultures and styles form other continents. Pierre Cartier travelled almost from the beginning all along the globe, to visit prominent clients and to be inspired by habits and traditions of other cultures. We have seen the influence of China and Japan in the collection, the effect Egypt had […]
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The news that Jérôme Lambert, current CEO of 180-year-old Swiss house of high watchmaking Jaeger-LeCoultre, will be heading up product-diverse Montblanc as of 1 July 2013 was released today, taking the industry by surprise. Speculation about the future leadership of the Hamburg-headquartered Montblanc had been been gradually heating up since early 2012, but this is […]
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Series of ultra macros…abstractions Today I will feature a watch from Roman Gautier…the Logical 1…but only abstract images. The full watch will be shown on Monday. Click on image above for 1920 wide full screen wallpaper. Note: Watches (one in gold, another in platinum) photographed are prototypes, and have been travelling the world shown toRead More
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Abraham Louis Breguet is the father of modern watchmaking…almost all the timekeeping innovations have been either invented, worked on, or perfected by this great man himself. Today, the Breguet company, under the mighty Swatch Group continues in this tradition. I am very partial to their dial design and execution, which to me is the bestRead More
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It’s been so difficult to keep quiet about this watch. I met the RJ-Romain Jerome Spacecraft last summer at Agenhor during my week under the tutelege of Jean-Marc Wiederrecht and his talented cadre of watchmakers. Needless to say I was completely enamored with it. However, I was compelled to wait five months to be able […]
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Richard Mille has always been one of the more pioneering watchmakers of our generation. One would assume that his last creation with full sapphire case might have been a little hard to top but last week, he announced his mainstay RM 011 flyback chronograph in silicon nitride, a material commonly associated with automobiles and not […]
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In the center of the small town of Glashütte, which has been a center of watchmaking since 1845, there is a museum –the “German Watch Museum Glashütte” –which contains treasures out of all proportion to the size of the city that is its home. The building was opened in 1881, in order to house a watchmaking […]
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The first A Lange & Söhne Singapore boutique has been (soft opening) in business at the prestigious ION Orchard mall for around 3 months now, aiming to please the loyal Asian Lange fans. To celebrate the expaded presence of the brand in Singapore, the boutique will have its official grand opening at the end of […]
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SIHH is the time where Panerai collectors early await for the news of the latest Panerai watches. The last few years have been very exciting for hard core collectors, with models like PAM00372 that is inspired from the vintage 6152/1, PAM00382 in bronze material that started the craze for bronze watches and the PAM00399 which […]
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The communication issued by The Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) said that the response to the recently completed Annual Geneva watch fair has been overwhelmingly positive and it is another record fair “which for the first time ever is expected to post exports in excess of CHF 20 billion”. This year’s SIHH held at […]
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We apologize for bringing you this after the New Year’s come and gone, but faithful Revolution Online readers now know we’ve been laboring in a good cause –bringing you our new, updated site. We do want to share with you a wonderful time we had co-hosting an event celebrating the watchmaking of Blancpain, with Adam […]
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Carole Forestier-Kasapi, director of fine watchmaking at Cartier has been an industry trailblazer since her tenure at Ulysse Nardin. Having overseen the high profile ID concept watch project, Forestier-Kasapi has addressed some of haute horology’s nagging issues namely- lubrication and energy loss in geared movements. Since production of the exemplary Cartier Astrotourbillon and the Rotonde […]
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With November 9th (Skyfall’s release date) around the corner and gentlemen worldwide engaging in ardent debates (we imagine) over Her Royal Majesty’s choice of timepiece for the British Navy and Special Air Services, we have been hard at work to uncover definitive information on the diver’s watch wars. The two traditional camps have always been […]
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Hidden in plain sight” might be more appropriate. It’s news to no one who loves fine watchmaking that, thanks to many factors, the prices of mechanical watches have been steadily climbing over the last few years, with - apparently - no end in sight. That’s made things a little tougher for die-hard horological enthusiasts who […]
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The watches produced by Jaquet Droz since the name was relaunched by the Swatch Group in 2001 have for the last 11 years been notable mostly for extremely beautiful high-art dials (using everything from extremely exotic enameling techniques, such as pailloneé, to rare minerals like meteorite) and for very distinctive implementations of classic complications. (We […]
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New Watch Brands Have Been A Little Scarce Of Late, So We Were All A Tad Excited To Hear About Hyt And Its New Mechanically-powered Liquid Time Display For about a decade now, watchmakers have been looking at different ways to indicate time using systems such as orbiting satellites (URWERK), rubber belts (Claret), jumping chains […]
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A minute repeater is a percussion instrument. A series of (most frequently two, sometimes three or four) hammers strike gongs that have each been tuned to produce a certain note, composing a melody that can be translated into a report of the time by those initiated into the discipline of repeating watches. Its matched hammers […]
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Vacheron Constantin’s tonneau-shaped watch, the Malte, celebrates 100 years with two new models It’s been a century since Vacheron Constantin introduced its first tonneau-shaped wristwatch - which was probably among the first series-produced wristwatches ever made, as 100 years ago, in 1912, the wristwatch was still very much a novelty, tonneau or otherwise. The tonneau shape […]
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