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Nico Gerard’s Pinnacle hybrid timepiece combines Apple Watch and our traditional mechanical watch

August 5, 2015 by Editorial Team

A mechanical electric hybrid timepiece: An Apple watch combined with a regular watch on a single bracelet. Swiss-watchmaking traditions with the support of the 38mm Apple Watch. Nico Gerard’s ‘Pinnacle‘ double-faced timepiece is an accessory combining an Apple watch with a Swiss watch on a single bracelet. On one side of your wrist you will have … Read more

Van Cleef & Arpels Seven Seas High Jewelry collection

August 4, 2015 by Editorial Team

This summer’s Van Cleef & Arpels High Jewelry collection is a delicate interpretation of a summer evening on the shores of a fairy sea. Called “Seven Seas,” the collection is a subtle evocation of a watery world, lulled by the rhythm of the waves and the sea’s sparkle. Beneath an azure sky bathed in light, … Read more

LVMH’s performance for the first half of 2015 to further strengthen its leadership in the luxury industry

August 4, 2015 by Editorial Team

LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world’s leading luxury products group, recorded revenue of €16.7 billion in the first half of 2015, an increase of 19%. Organic revenue growth was 6% compared to the same period in 2014. The Group recorded strong growth in Europe and the United States, excellent performance at Parfums Christian Dior, … Read more

Fred’s Force 10 reloaded

July 31, 2015 by Editorial Team

Cable Jewelry: The sea and the maritime universe transmits freedom and audacity. “My creations are inspired by the life, the light, the movement, the energy,” used to say Fred Samuel, the founder of Fred Jewelry. As he raised two young boys, Fred Samuel passed his passion of for sailing and rowing his two sons. In … Read more

Big Bang Unico Bi-Retrograde Paris Saint-Germain to time two halves of a soccer match

July 24, 2015 by Editorial Team

Hublot Loves Football: Big Bang Unico Bi-Retrograde Paris Saint-Germain.

Hublot and PSG – Paris Saint-Germain score atop Rockefeller Center to reveal the new Hublot Big Bang Unico Bi-Retrograde Paris Saint-Germain.

Luxury Swiss watch manufacturer Hublot loves football. Hublot welcomed the Paris Saint-Germain team to New York City for the unveiling of the Big Bang Unico Bi-Retrograde Paris Saint-Germain watch.

The Big Bang Unico Bi-Retrograde Paris Saint-Germain – Hublot’s second timepiece with the French football champion – is limited to 100 pieces and features a 45.5mm titanium case with a sapphire anti-reflective treatment and the Paris Saint-Germain logo printed on the case back glass. Inspired by the iconic team colors, embellishments of red, white and blue are reflected throughout the dial, hands and strap. The sleek and sporty timepiece is manufactured with Hublot’s in-house UNICO self-winding bi-retrograde movement and designed to time two halves of a soccer match.

As the first luxury watch brand to become involved with European football in 2006, Hublot has since built a strong presence in the world of football. Hublot’s relationship with the French Club began in 2013 when it became the Official Timekeeper and Official Watch of the team and introduced the first timepiece known as the King Power Paris Saint-Germain.

Hublot’s U.S. Managing Director, Jean-Francois Sberro, hosted an exclusive cocktail event with the team at a private rooftop garden atop the historic Rockefeller Center to launch the Big Bang Unico Bi-Retrograde Paris Saint-Germain timepiece. Star players in attendance included Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Blaise Matuidi and Thiago Silva, as well as Kevin Trapp who officially joined the Parisian Club last week.

The night celebrated French culture, including music by French DJ, Olivier Meiji, and a live art demonstration by French artist, JonOne. As a surprise to guests, Paris Saint-Germain players also tried their hand at painting, creating a one-of-a-kind painting on a large canvas with the help of the artist. The painting will be auctioned off later this season to benefit the team’s charitable foundation, Fondation Paris Saint-Germain. To top it off, guests enjoyed desserts made by the team with cult pastry chef, Dominique Ansel.

Diagono “E” Magnesium – the first luxury watch-vault reducing the cyber risks

July 22, 2015 by Editorial Team

“Connected” timepieces are an open gate to hacking or phishing. Bulgari aims to drastically reduce the cyber risks when using the Internet with the enhanced Diagono “E” Magnesium watch. Bulgari bolds the “e” in Magnesium to differentiate the concept piece from the standard Magnesium watches, which were among Bulgari’s new product introductions at Baselworld 2015 fair.

Bulgari and WISeKey, a Swiss firm that specializes in digital security and data storage, announced a broadening of their partnership launched at BaselWorld 2015 with the announcement of the Intelligent Watch Diagono “E” Magnesium concept. The timepiece is the first wrist- vault, an intelligent luxury watch delivering full security storage for the owner’s digital data.

“Being a jeweler we always been have obsessed by security. So from that jewelry obsession for security we came to the conclusion that the ultimate benefit for our consumer in his daily life was beside having a beautiful object on his wrist, a true Swiss watch, to have also the ultimate data protection which no one never thought about,” commented Jean-Christophe Babin, Bulgari’s CEO.

The watch features virtually limitless applications, a number of verticals such as access control, payments, health services, Bulgari Hotel check-in, car activation and so on.

Diagono “E” Magnesium intelligent watch is powered by the self-winding manufacture caliber Solotempo (with a 28,800-vph frequency and a 42-hour power reserve), with the only electronic components being a cryptographic system embedded into the watch and equipped with WISeKey’s NFCTrusted (Encrypted Near Field Communication) technology. This enables the watch to transmit a digital certificate to the “Bulgari Vault,” an app that the owner downloads and sets up on
his iOs or Android smartphone (with its own NFC chip). The owner then simply places the watch near the phone to activate and unlock the electronic vault and begin storing and using data. As soon as data is entered into the app, it is immediately encrypted with WISeKey’s highly secure technology, so that only the wearer of the watch can have access and read them. Some of the uses for the technology would include using the watch to store and access pass codes, encrypted cloud data, make secure payments, activate an alarm system and video surveillance remotely, open car doors, access transport tickets, and various other possibilities.

“The objective of this new partnership is to reinforce the Cyber Security client ecosystem preparing Bulgari customers to the arrival of the Diagono “E” Magnesium intelligent watch and the Bulgari Vault app due early 2016,” explained Carlos Moreira, Founder and CEO WISeKey. “It will allow Bulgari customers to use the watch as an encrypted asymmetric key to securely backup their data online using WISeKey CyberSecurity technologies and data storage on Swiss Alps military bunkers,” added Moreira.