Somewhere in the 1980s, between Blade Runner and RoboCop, lies the robo retro trend. Both Harry Winston (Opus 8, £215,000; harrywinston.com ) and De Grisogono (Meccanico, about £220,000; degrisogono.com ) have gone to the extreme effort of producing mechanical watches with a faux-digital readout. They're exceedingly expensive (considering other quartz watches can be bought for [...]
That's rich - A. Lange & Söhne luxe watch can make a Indian look like a richman or richwoman.
The price of the Cabaret Tourbillon has more zeroes than you can count. A. Lange & Söhne’s luxe watch, with the first stop-seconds feature ever implemented in a tourbillon caliber, is now available in India. Only 5000 [...]
This is the 160th year since the company was founded on May 1, 1839 by two Polish immigrants. Like Rolex, the origin of Patek Philippe is hardly Swiss. Antoine Norbert de Patek, a salesman and Francois Czapek a watch maker invented a crown hand winding mechanism set up the company. Subsequently, a French watch marker [...]
Vacheron Constantin Tour de l'Ile
A legend of Vacheron Constantin watch
Of all the wrist watches created by Vacheron Constantin to date, the Tour de l'Ile is a study in superlatives. Calling this a "grand complication" model is a gross understatement. It is, in fact, the world's most complex watch ever made, with its original combination of [...]
Watch book review: Cult Watches by Michael Balfour
If you think you know about watches, think again. Internationally respected watch geek Michael Balfour here brings us the watch book to end all watch books. And though the spirit is all things watch-related, the focus is quite different: Balfour takes intimate, elegant, stylish looks at 30 “cult” [...]
(The Star Nicolas Rieussec Monopusher Chronograph has the first in-house movements from the brand.)
Montblanc’s showcase at the SIHH unveiled a special celebratory collection.
TWO years ago, Minerva, a small manufacture specialising in handcrafted watchmaking in Villeret, Switzlerland, joined forces with Montblanc. This resulted in the latter founding the Institut Minerva de Recherche en Haute Horlogerie to [...]
Folli Follie, a Greek mid-range jewellery manufacturer, has come or planed to Asia market like Beijing, Shanghai in China, New Delhi in India, Tokyo in Japan, Seoul in Korea. Its success in Asia attracts global investors.
Current market conditions provide attractive opportunities in European stocks that can withstand the global headwinds, according to Peter Jarvis, manager of [...]
Harry Winston Expects Rough Diamond Price will Rise
RBC Capital Markets hosted its annual diamond conference in London on Thursday and cautioned that diamond prices would continue to rise as demand outpaces supply.
“While the short-term outlook for consumer demand for diamonds is somewhat depressed, the longer-term outlook for purchases of diamond jewelry is good,” RBC global mining [...]
