Jack Forster is the Editor in Chief of Revolution Magazine, a quarterly publication celebrating the world of fine watchmaking, and he also manages Revolution Online www.revo-online.com,the foremost information and discussion site on the internet for watch enthusiasts.
As regular Haute Time readers know, extra thin watches have a big place in our hearts, and in the small world of ultra slim timepieces there are few bigger names than the oldest in the business, Vacheron Constantin. Extra flat watches have been a speciality of the firm’s for, quite literally, centuries.
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The watches of Urwerk are a very new twist on a very old idea. In Urwerk watches, a “time satellite” carrying the hour indication crosses a sector of the dial marked with the minutes; as the satellite carrier reaches the 60 minute mark a new hour marker appears at 0 and the whole process starts over.
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There’s nobody quite like Maximilian Büsser –or like his company, Maximilian Büsser & Friends, a cooperative of designers, watchmakers, and other assorted talents which he put together in 2005 after leaving his position as head of the fine watchmaking department at Harry Winston.
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The name Zenith might conjure images of old television sets and radios to a lot of Americans but to watch lovers, it’s a magic word that summons images of one of Switzerland’s most respected manufacturers.
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Vacheron Constantin is famous among horological cognoscenti for being the oldest of the great Swiss watchmaking firms –in continuous operation since 1755, it’s been active in the United States since 1832, and over the years it’s counted among its fans the Wright Brothers (for whom the firm made the watch used to time the first powered flights in 1903) William James (brother of novelist Henry James) and financier Henry Graves, who owned a complicated Vacheron Constantin pocket watch which sold at a recent Christie’s auction for the princely sum of $1,762,500 –over twice the maximum estimate.
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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.
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It’s being hailed as one of the most complicated watches ever made by the International Watch Company of Schaffhausen. Best know for its high precision instrument watches and pilot’s watches, IWC has taken the connection with the world of the sky and stars hinted at by the navigation instrument inspired watches in its collection and brought it to an unprecedented new level
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It’s often said that painting was never the same after Picasso; the same could be said of the art of watchmaking, and the watch known as the Ulysse Nardin Freak.
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If you love a comeback story (and who doesn’t) Roger Dubuis is a watchmaking house that’s probably already on your radar.
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One of the biggest news items for watch fans last year was about something small: the Corum Golden Bridge turned 30. Introduced in 1980, the Corum Golden Bridge was then and is now a design that plays against conventional expectations of a watch.
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