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08 February 2016 |
Richard Mille,
30 minutes on the wrist,
Avantgarde,
Collecting Watches,
SIHH 2016,
The launch of the new Richard Mille RM 50-02 ACJ has caused quite a stir, at first sight it is mainly because of the price that the new Richard Mille watch will retail at rather than for its technical features. Last Saturday, as an innocent joke, we posted the very first ...
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06 February 2016 |
Panerai,
30 minutes on the wrist,
Avantgarde,
SIHH 2016,
Here is the best example of the brand's "Laboratorio di Idee". To all those people who keep on claiming that Panerai never ever launches anything new, I would like to respond to with one simple name; Panerai Lo Scienziato Luminor 1950 Tourbillon GMT PAM 578 Titanium. Despite the fact that ...
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02 December 2015 |
Girard-Perregaux,
30 minutes on the wrist,
Avantgarde,
Haute Horlogerie,
Baselworld 2015,
Although Girard-Perregaux haven't invented the tourbillon watch itself, they were among the first manufacturers to adopt it and further develop it, and that's why the brand from La Chaux de Fonds is strongly linked to the history of haute-horlogerie. In the last two centuries, the manufacturer has striven to achieve a ...
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04 August 2015 |
Richard Mille,
30 minutes on the wrist,
Avantgarde,
Haute Horlogerie,
The last time that I walked into the Richard Mille boutique in Milan I promised to myself and to my readers that I would soon cover some of the timepieces on display there. I have just started reviewing the brand's watches but this is only the beginning of the sage, ...
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03 May 2015 |
HYT,
5 minutes on the wrist,
Avantgarde,
Haute Horlogerie,
Baselworld 2015,
Can a revolution be, in turn, revolutionized? It sounds like a contradiction but the answer is “yes”, if HYT and Audemars Piguet Renaud & Papi get together, and the result is called HYT H3. The two brands already collaborated when they came up with the HYT H2, the second chapter ...
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26 April 2015 |
Urwerk,
5 minutes on the wrist,
Avantgarde,
Baselworld 2015,
The first time I saw the Urwerk UR-1001 Titan I tried to understand what it was. Two minutes later, I tried to think of what else the ingenious madness of Martin Frei and Felix Baumgartner could come up with. This time machine has the same meaning of a hypercar among ...
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19 February 2015 |
Christophe Claret,
30 minutes on the wrist,
Avantgarde,
Haute Horlogerie,
Baselworld 2015,
Each time I receive an email from Christophe Claret that includes a press release or a teaser for a new timepiece, I try to guess which theorem or computation he has used as a source of inspiration to realize his latest mechanical wonder. This time Christophe Claret has caught me ...
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16 February 2015 |
HYT,
30 minutes on the wrist,
Avantgarde,
The best description of the HYT Skull has been given by the brand's CEO Vincent Perriard: “Simply giving a vague skull shape to an existing movement, and presenting it as an entirely new piece is not really our style.” That is especially true as HYT has interpreted the skull's theme quite ...
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29 January 2015 |
Audemars Piguet,
Avantgarde,
Haute Horlogerie,
SIHH 2015,
It is a maison which could easily rest on its laurels, yet Audemars Piguet continues to invest a lot of money and resources in Research and Development, and to offer state-of-the-art timepieces, to improve collections that already look perfect to me, to introduce new advanced materials that no other brand ...
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21 January 2015 |
Panerai,
30 minutes on the wrist,
Avantgarde,
SIHH 2015,
Previewing the latest technical achievement by Panerai. Its name is Panerai Luminor Submersible 1950 Carbotech and I believe it to be the most interesting new product presented by Panerai during a press conference which strengthens once more the public image of a brand that is unrivalled in terms of coherence and simplicity ...
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