WatchPaper

You are browsing the archives of Baselworld.

LINDE WERDELIN, the leading sports watches and attachable instruments manufacturer, is proud to present a new addition to the Oktopus family, the Oktopus Moonphase complication. Powered by a Frédéric Piguet movement (caliber 1150) and with a moonphase complication built by Danish-born Svend Andersen, this is a unique combination of design and craftsmanship, which depicts the [...]

Following the great success of its first Extreme Tourbillon Regulator Manufacture – the Full Black version – at Baselworld in 2009, ALPINA Genève is proud to present two new models in gold, both issued in an extremely limited series of just 18 numbered pieces.
These new versions, both as astonishing as the first, feature a “Full [...]

The saga of Outland continues… The new declination of the RSW Outland timepiece actually keeps the identical neo‐brutalism design paying homage to futurism, oblique architecture, the super computers and the first electronic musical instruments used in the first version of Outland. The novelty lays in the fact that the new model drops the theme of [...]

Baselworld 2010 marks the 275th Anniversary for Blancpain and is the occasion for the debut of a new Villeret Collection. The first timepiece from this new series to be unveiled is a new complete calendar moon-phase model featuring a fully secure calendar mechanism, and under-lug correctors, fitted into a half-hunter red gold case.
This [...]

A MARRIAGE OF TRADITION AND MODERNITY
On the occasion of the next International Basel Fair, Eberhard & Co. will present as special preview the new “Tazio Nuvolari Edition Limitée Grand Prix TN” in 18 ct. red gold.
Ever mindful of all that has left its mark on history, Eberhard is once again inspired by Tazio Nuvolari, myth [...]

It only takes a glance to recognize the 1960s. This extraordinary period’s unmistakable look and feel lives on in the movies and the music, architecture and design we still admire today. German design from the 1960s reflects the era and stands apart in a world of its own, stylish in a retro-modern way, elegant and [...]

18 January 2010 – No watch is more closely identified with OMEGA’s pioneering spirit than the Speedmaster.
The legendary chronograph has a long list of adventures to its credit, including every one of NASA’s piloted missions since May of 1963. When Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in 1969 wearing his OMEGA Speedmaster Professional, the [...]

18 January 2010 – The OMEGA Skeletonized Central Tourbillon Co-Axial Platinum Limited Edition is the ultimate expression of the watchmaker’s art. Each watch is handcrafted in OMEGA’s Cellule Haut de Gamme (Tourbillon Atelier) in Bienne by a select group of horologists.
In a Tourbillon movement, all of the main components responsible for the timepiece’s precision are [...]

2009 started as a difficult year for everyone, but while established watch makers took the hits with dignity, younger brands where betting on their flexibility and agility to adapt to new economic realities. The Chinese ideograms for “crisis” is 危機, where 危 alone means “danger”, while 機 has also the meaning of “opportunity”. I’m looking [...]

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (22 December, 2009)
With just under three months to go before the watch world congregates in Switzerland at BASELWORLD 2010, 18th – 25th March, TW Steel’s Chief Executive Officer, Jordy Cobelens (27), took time out from his schedule to give his thoughts on how ‘The Watch in Steel’ is gearing up for the [...]