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LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS, Switzerland – The warm, rich color of the 5N red-gold case and matching hands blends in harmonious juxtaposition with the striking jet-black dial and rollers on this latest very limited-edition model in the exclusive Chapter One collection.
Developed by a collaboration of world-renowned master watchmakers, Christophe Claret, Roger Dubuis and Peter Speake-Marin, Chapter [...]

MB&F presents Horological Machine No2-SV, featuring a room-with-a-view crystal-clear sapphire case with titanium back. With its totally transparent case, HM2-SV offers unprecedented visual access to the painstakingly hand-finished, 349-component engine powering the indications on its iconic twin dials.
Sapphire’s hardness is second only to diamond, which makes the whole top half of the case (the most [...]

TEMPOGRAPH original technology is absolutely unique in its kind. It consists in the first and only 10-second retrograde complication activated by a visible cam mechanism. This invention has been patented (patent pending), since TEMPOGRAPH can be considered as one of the most creative watches on today’s market.
The distinctive feature of TEMPOGRAPH is its retrograde seconds [...]

An exceptional timepiece that that allows the wearer to “modulate the speed of the time”.
Confrérie Horlogère upmarket watch brand’s “Les Masters” collection is the venue for the presentation of outstanding movements born of pioneering mechanical and engineering research. A prime example is “La Clef du Temps” tourbillon watch featuring a hand-wound mechanical movement providing three [...]

The warm, smiling face of precision timekeeping
As the festive season approaches, with many people around the world eager to salute a new year full of hopes, EBEL is happy to introduce a timely reminder that accuracy and rigorous standards can also be perfectly expressed in a charmingly congenial manner.
The inimitably smooth and generous 45.4 mm-diameter [...]

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 [...]

Time is usually – nearly always – displayed by a circular indication: one dial and two (or three) with the time displayed around a perpetual circle. However, this 360° representation of time goes against everything we learned as we grew up drawing a straight line on a blank page and marking it Past, Present [...]

As an archetype of the modern approach to watchmaking introduced by Gérald Genta, the Octo (for octagonal) case continues to draw on its good fortune in being born under the sign of the figure 8, regarded as a lucky number in China. Its design celebrates an architectural design placing function in the service of aesthetics [...]

Drawing inspiration from its rich heritage, DeWitt creates timepieces featuring resolutely masculine lines and dimensions, imbued with an authentically contemporary spirit. The Academia Seconde Retrograde Serenity is a particularly fine example of this consistently daring approach to its noble calling.
A tireless quest for harmony and aesthetic elegance has led the DeWitt watchmaking artisans to create [...]

In order to honour its 175 years of history, Longines has imagined a timepiece bearing witness to its rich horological heritage and constant striving for elegance: The Longines Master Collection Retrograde. This new watch, enclosing a new automatic mechanical calibre developed especially for Longines, becomes the flagship model of a collection devoted to highlighting the [...]