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March/April 2012
Ultra Thin Watches Prove Less is More
This issue showcases the art of the thin watch, with designs by Audemars Piguet, Jaeger LeCoultre, Ralph Lauren and more.
“A thin watch demands much higher precision in construction and more skill in assembly to run well –and achieving the elegant purity of design found in the best thin watches demands a discerning eye.
The earliest watches were thick, heavy objects, but by the mid-18th century, watchmaking had become advanced enough that thin movements could be made.”
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Read this issue of Haute Living San Francisco to see the Piaget Emperador Coussin Tourbillon as part of a report on the new trend in time, the ultra thin watch. This flat timepiece is the world’s thinnest self-winding tourbillon watch.
The extra flat watch is enjoying something of a comeback this year, driven both by the explosion of a market that prefers thin, classically styled watches –China, we're looking at you –and by a growing appreciation for watches that embody some of the classical expertise in watchmaking connoisseu...
There's no company better known than Piaget for making the kind of watch that was once the last word in elegance: thin, gold, and automatic.
The return of ultra-thin watches has been heralded for many months now, but perhaps no company remains more identified with mastery of this rarefied form of watchmaking than Piaget.
Jaeger-LeCoultre has been giving their iconic Reverso collection quite a bit of attention in the last couple years with new editions coming out like the “Tribute to 1931”, in honor of its 80th birthday and the one customized by the artist Zep.
Hublot will pull covers off its first extra-thin skeleton watch, a Classic Fusion with a refined design which preserves the true mark of being a Hublot chronograph, this year at BaselWorld
To celebrate the milestone 40th anniversary of Audemars Piguet's Royal Oak timepiece, the iconic luxury watch brand is releasing the Openworked Extra-Thin Royal Oak Limited Edition 40th Anniversary in January.
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Kaveh Hearian has just been announced as the winner of Jaeger-LeCoultre's “MAD ABOUT REVERSO” contest
Though the trend towards hefty watches in recent years seemed unstoppable, the classic, elegant thin dress watch is making a long-overdue comeback
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