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Purists will immediately, and rightfully, note that Black Tie as a dress code does not allow for the men to wear wristwatches. Yet those regulations come from an era in which Great Britain still had a King and every airplane a propeller. Times have changed, and so have watches. In 2011 Piaget surprised everybody by […]
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Baume & Mercier CEO Alain Zimmermann speaks to us on the new pieces from the Clifton Collection at SIHH 2014 where we see extensions to the very well received line launched last year. Among the highlights, a Flying Tourbillon, Chronograph, Retrograde Date and new Ladies watches. Interviewed by Wei Koh. Read Revolution International Digital […]
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Name a watch brand that doesn’t have a tourbillon in its collection? They’re still out there, but their number seems to decrease every year. Even though many brands don’t make their tourbillons in-house, it does illustrate how technically complicated movements have become more and more a part of the general landscape in the watch world, […]
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BANG! Just as Richemont’s yearly watch-party, the SIHH, was starting last week, LVMH announced the appointment of Jean-Claude Biver as head of LVMH’s watch department. The timing of this announcement was surely not chosen in vain, perhaps in a slight attempt to upstage the party of the Richemont group and the SIHH brands. This announcement […]
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The first major watch event of 2014 looks set to whet our appetite for the best of horology and as you can see from the pile of equipment above, we at Revolution are in the midst of our preparations for this yearly January showcase. SIHH or the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie is the […]
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The more expensive jewelry and watches become, the more likely that they will spend most of their existence in the secure confinement of a safe. When jewelry-brand Pomellato was founded in 1967 in Milan, it was determined to change this. With a playful approach towards design, combined with traditional craftsmanship, they created collections that where […]
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Ressence is one of the new brands who seem to have sprouted out of nowhere with innovation burtsting from their ears. Their concept of a watch with wandering dials suspended in a fluid that refracts light like the air, so the orbiting indications appear to be on the crystal. As usual, technical information, and theRead More
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The HYT watches have been making waves…yes, pun intended…with their hydro mechanical watches since they were first revealed to the horological world. I covered the first in the series, the HYT1 in these pages before. See here, and here. It was a pleasant afternoon with Vincent Perriard, CEO of HYT. These are quite rare timepieces,Read More
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Watches are a constant reminder of our own mortality. Every tick we hear, will never come back and inevitable bring us closer to the end, whatever that may be. Even one of the most successful add campaigns ever launched by a watch brand is referring to this; You never actually own a Patek Philippe. You […]
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The Reverso by Jaeger-LeCoultre –who does’nt know about this smart chic timepiece that can be turned around in its case, to protect it for oncoming golf- or tennis balls. Since 1931, the year of introduction, the Reverso collection has constantly evolved, expanded and improved. Not only with simple dial and colour variations, but also with […]
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REVOLUTION Switzerland was delighted to be the guest of IWC in Schaffhausen recently to visit the Swiss watch brand’s manufacture and museum and meet its fastest ambassador, Lewis Hamilton, MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ driver. This was the first time that Hamilton had visited IWC since the brand had become the Official Engineering Partner of […]
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JAKARTA, 30 May 2013 – A leader and a pioneer – Hublot, leading Swiss luxury watch manufacturer sets yet another series of firsts with their premiere event in Indonesia. To kick things off with a Big Bang, Hublot presented a spectacle of their stunning new collection to the Indonesian audience at a private event held at The Foundry, […]
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The H2 presents an evolution in HYT’s unique display of time, which we first saw in the 2012 H1. There is this scene in JRR Tolkien’s genre-defining tripartite novel The Lord of the Rings, when the heroes of Middle-Earth come together to discuss the insane idea of challenging Sauron before the gates of his armed-to-the-fangs […]
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– A brief story of the Urwerk collection of wrist watches – Between 1990 and 2010 several independent watch brands like Urwerk, MB&F;, Hautlence and MCT, just to name a few, were established. From these so called niche brands, Urwerk was one of the first and the brand became in roughly 15 years one of […]
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the new H2 : HYDRO MECANICAL HOROLOGISTS WITH APRP (AUDEMARS PIGUET RENAUD ET PAPI) LEADED BY GIULIO PAPI Sneak preview for what’s coming for the 2013 BaselWorld. A word from one of our sponsors HYT. Also, click on the HYT panel on the left and visit their website.
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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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According to an LVMH release and as part of a management reshuffle, Jean-Christophe Babin, CEO of LVMH watch brand TAG Heuer will move over to jewellery brand Bulgari. The move was triggered when Louis Vuitton chief Jordi Constants quit in December over health problems and Michael Burke left his Bulgari post to head Maison de […]
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When you go to attend the SIHH, you go to presentations of new products from each of the participating companies that come in all shapes and sizes, from dour Power-Point-esque slide shows to over-the-top multimedia extravaganzas in Dolby Surround Sound with 3D glasses for all and sundry. Every year, though, we look forward to the […]
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Long overdue and a natural step to respond to the growing importance of the Asian market in the luxury watch industry, Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie will bring the most prestigious international watch exhibition outside Switzerland to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center this September. The Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie is the organiser behind the massive […]
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What do you do when your early product is already uber cool…where do you go from uber cool? Felix Baumgartner (not the sky diving dare devil…the watchmaking genius) shows the way. I get to wear the Urwerk watches…all 3 super duper ultra cool watches in one evening…and lived to tell the tale. The year wasRead More
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Anchoring the corner of fashionable Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and quiet Rue Boissy d’Anglas, and a block away from Place de la Concorde and the Tuileries Garden, sits Hermès’ hulking Paris emporium and headquarters. The impressive flagship houses not only the gorgeous Hermès boutique and offices, but also a new Émile Hermès Museum, which features […]
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The beginning of a journey takes but one step. In an age of square and round watches, the industry gripped in the throes of the quartz crisis was trying to outcompete itself on a battlefield of watch straps and materials. Standing above the fray and towards even more risk was a company near the brink, […]
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It’s the queen of complications and really understanding it is a lifetime study - but you gotta start somewhere. REVOLUTION brings you a brief introduction to some of the inside secrets of watchmaking’s most romantic complication The minute repeater is both the most sophisticated of complications and the most atavistic - sophisticated, in that it requires enormous […]
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Peter Speake-Marin…one of the few English watchmakers living and working in Switzerland. I have known Peter for perhaps 10 years, since he was starting out as an independent watchmaker. He cut his teeth in Renaud et Papi and at one of the great London vintage retailer’s restoration atelier. He was recently in Singapore to showcaseRead More
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Independent Watchmaking Salon in Hong Kong March of the Independents It is no secret that I am an ardent admirer of independent watchmakers. I was one of the first to invest in Philippe Dufour, by purchasing and writing about him. As early as 1999, I wrote an early article which appeared in The Business TimesRead More
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Rebellion. What a name for a watch. And true to its name, this is indeed a rebellious watch. Manually wound. Six barrels. 1000 hours of power reserve. To wind the watch, one releases a lever, and the entire bezel pivots at 6 o’clock, and operating the lever winds the watch. Cool. Two chains, one onRead More
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Hands-on definitive review of the A. Lange & Sohne Richard Lange Pour le Merite Tourbillon. This review was published on 9am GMT 20th December 2010, when the embargo lifted. A number of global journalists were invited to celebrate the founding of the Lange company on 7th December 2010 in Glashutte with a Press Conference toRead More
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About a year ago—or maybe two—I remember sitting in an Uber with Ben and some of the Hodinkee team as we drove down the Rue de Lausanne in Geneva, heading to Watches & Wonders. We had just grabbed a quick breakfast when Michael Friedman unexpectedly joined us. Yes, that Michael Friedman. The "AP, Michael Friedman, my friend's cooler" rap lyric guy. The guy who just so happened to have also formerly been a curator at the Willard House & Clock Museum and the National Watch & Clock Museum, Head of Watches at Christie's New York, a client advisor to people like Eric Clapton (during his pièce unique Patek years), and most recently the Head of Complications at Audemars Piguet. Okay, maybe you don't know Michael Friedman. But I knew him well and had some formative early-career experiences bumping into and getting to know him. I also knew he was working on a new brand, but had absolutely zero idea what it was. "It's wild," said Ben—or some approximation of that. "It's not so much a watch as a cuff, with a bunch of diamonds." What could that even mean? I had ideas in my head, but as they spiraled, they got further from the truth. As of a few months ago, we have the answer, and it's not what I had envisioned. The B-Theory Series 1 from Friedman's new brand Pattern Recognition is, as Ben said, far from a watch in most respects, but closer than I expected. Yes, it's jewelry. There are diamonds. And yet it's got the bona fides of technical watchmaking and connections with the pa...
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A boutique-exclusive drop pairs Maen's slimmest integrated-bracelet watch with a blue fumé Côtes de Genève dial that punches well above its price.
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Maen's ultra-thin, ultra-refined Manhattan 37 receives a stunning blue fumé Côtes de Genève dial, housed in a super thin case
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