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Shattering existing limits: such is the motto of the CX Swiss Military WatchTM brand, which is proudly unveiling its record-breaking 20’000 FEET, the only mechanical timepiece able to plunge more than 6,000 metres deep! Duly featured in the Guinness Book of Records, the 20’000 FEET fears nothing: neither the pressures equivalent to 750 kg/cm2 exercised [...]

OMEGA has announced the launch of the Seamaster Planet Ocean Liquidmetal® Limited Edition, the world’s first watch to bond ceramics and Liquidmetal®. Swatch Group researchers collaborating with OMEGA’s product development team have created a striking ceramic diving bezel whose numbers and scaling, made of the Liquidmetal® alloy, appear in stunning silvery contrast to the black [...]

1962. The space race was well under way. Already a supplier to civilian and military aviation, Breitling naturally took a keen interest in this new human adventure. Based on the Navitimer chronograph, the brand’s technicians developed the Cosmonaute, a space-going version of this instrument indicating the daily 24 hours in a single sweep of the [...]

Geneva (Switzerland), La Cité du Temps, 1 October 2009 – Longines has celebrated the 120th anniversary of the registration of a logo that the famous St. Imier watchmaker still uses today. Protected since 1889 in Switzerland (FOIP), this factory trademark comprising a winged hourglass and the name Longines is the oldest of its kind still [...]

Preserving the best from each era and consistently capturing the signs of the times: such is the infinitely delicate responsibility of the designers, master-watchmakers, engineers and artisans of Vacheron Constantin, as they shape creations destined to generate emotions as enduring as those aroused by the discovery of the first pocket watch made by Jean-Marc Vacheron [...]

Following on from the ONLY WATCH 2009 auction held in Monaco yesterday evening, during which the one-off model from Vacheron Constantin went for the sum of 50,000 Euros, and with a view to providing a more lasting financial contribution to the Monaco Association against Muscular Dystrophy, Vacheron Constantin has decided to launch a special series [...]

Behind Bell & Ross, A passion: for military watches A project: create utilitarian watches suitable for professional use. An inspiration: aeronautical instrumentation With aeronautical instrumentation the absolute reference in terms of readability, reliability and performance, the Bell & Ross designers sought to reproduce as faithfully as possible a cockpit timepiece at the scale of a [...]

A manifestation of everlasting love … Verre Èglomisé Timepieces – Limited Edition of 5 Timepieces The timepiece possesses “two” Verre Èglomisé miniatures, the portrait of Shah Jahan on the back crystal and the portrait of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal on its front crystal. Shah Jahan was the Mughal ruler, who has build the famous [...]

Geneva, September 15th, 2009 – The exclusive luxury watch brand, Cabestan, supports the charity auction “Only Watch 09“under the patronage of S.A.S Prince Albert II of Monaco. Longtime considered the “Bad Boy“ of the luxury watch industry in Switzerland, Jean-François Ruchonnet, Creator of the Cabestan Winch Tourbillon Vertical, places charitable contributions at the heart of [...]

Under its new label, “ARMIN by ARMIN STROM”, ARMIN STROM AG is launching watches for which, for the first time, a complete movement structure has been designed in the company’s own ateliers and which focus on technology and the concept of manufacturing. ARMIN STROM is well known for hand-skeletonised and unique timekeepers. This handcraft is [...]