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RAYMOND WEIL Once Aagain Official Watch of The Brit Awards

RAYMOND WEIL Once Aagain Official Watch of The Brit Awards

London, February 19th, 2009 – Yesterday night, UK’s most glamorous music event – The BRIT Awards 2009 with MasterCard – took place at Earls Court London. In line with the Brand’s commitment to the music world, Swiss luxury watchmaker RAYMOND WEIL proudly announced its status as Official Watch of this glittering event for the second [...]

Morgan, the automobile manufacturer, and Hublot, the watchmaker, combine their technologies

Morgan, the automobile manufacturer, and Hublot, the watchmaker, combine their technologies

Hublot Geneve Press Release, February 10, 2009 – On the anniversary of the first century of the Morgan company, Hublot has produced a special Big Bang whose design has been inspired by the AeroMax car: the Aero Bang Morgan. Jean-Claude Biver presented it today in Malvern (GB), at the jubilee firm’s headquarters, in the presence [...]

Antoine Preziuso Geneve Metropolis, Less is More

Antoine Preziuso Geneve Metropolis, Less is More

This brand new creation by ANTOINE PREZIUSO stands out for its architectural urban and contemporary design. Minimalism is the principle; the expression is pure, sober and essential. Its square titanium case encloses a highly distinctive dial, where the shape of the hands sticks out, reflecting the form of the skyscrapers in cosmopolitan cities. The big [...]

NEWS FACES, ENDURING VALUES Evangeline Lilly & David Duchovny

NEWS FACES, ENDURING VALUES Evangeline Lilly & David Duchovny

Baume & Mercier & Me, the slogan adopted by the Swiss watch brand Baume & Mercier, is embodied this year by two new personalities with which it shares many similarities: internationally recognized, while remaining totally authentic and profoundly human. Actress Evangeline Lilly (Lost) and actor David Duchovny (X-Files) are associating with the fourth edition of the Baume [...]

Frédérique Constant New LOve Heart Beat: LOvely Feminine…

Frédérique Constant New LOve Heart Beat: LOvely Feminine…

Frédérique Constant Press Release – January 2009, Geneva -Frédérique Constant is proud to introduce its new “LOve Heart Beat” models. The new version of the highly successful Ladies Automatic Heart Beat series comes with an original dial design and in new colors. After the success of the first series of Double Heart Beat ladies watches, [...]

New MAXIME MANUFACTURE AUTOMATIC: Maximizing the Manufacture concept

New MAXIME MANUFACTURE AUTOMATIC: Maximizing the Manufacture concept

Geneva, January 2009: Frédérique Constant is proud to introduce its new Maxime Manufacture Automatic. In addition to the successful Heart Beat Manufacture collection, Frédérique Constant now announces a new chapter in its history of in-house developed movements. Five years ago, in 2004, Frédérique Constant entered the elite circle of Swiss watch brands that develop and [...]

KING POWER: the most powerful and toughest model in the Big Bang range

KING POWER: the most powerful and toughest model in the Big Bang range

Hublot Geneve Press Release January 2009 – A Big Bang with an even stronger, more powerful and further evolved design: this is the King Power – a timepiece with a complex dial made of several layers in a sober and powerful aesthetic concept, housing a split-seconds foudroyante chronograph movement. King Power, a watch with an [...]

Allegra, the heart has its reasons... Novelty by Pilo & Co Genève

Allegra, the heart has its reasons… Novelty by Pilo & Co Genève

Always on the alert tendencies which are outlined, the brand PILO & Co Geneva launches its light Allegra, cheerful and mischievous, the brightness of which seems to have been fed by the women’s glance. Present on about twenty markets, the brand distinguishes itself by its captures of moment, placed under the signs of the watchmakers, [...]

World-first Preview of Blancpain Fifty Fathoms watch

World-first Preview of Blancpain Fifty Fathoms watch

Blancpain presents a world-first preview of its new Fifty Fathoms watch in a special limited series of 50. This exclusive edition is clad in a deep blue colour celebrating the inseparable ties binding the Manufacture in Le Brassus to the splendours of the ocean depths. It plays the starring role in an exhibition that is [...]

The Hallmark of Geneva

The Hallmark of Geneva

The twelve technical criteria (excerpted from the Official Regulations of the Hallmark of Geneva) Only mechanical watches assembled and adjusted on the territory of the Canton of Geneva – Switzerland – may be entered. Each movement must furthermore bear its own individual production number. 1.The quality of all parts and components of the movement, including [...]