September 2011, the 4th edition of the Only Watch charity watch auction raised above € 4 million for research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a degenerative neuromuscular disease affecting 1 in 3,500 boys, therefore 250,000 children, adolescents, and young adults around the world. Although the research money enables scientists to make progress in promising avenues … Read more
Winner of Versace Watch Talent contest named Adrien Nebel, a 22 year old student from Genève, is the winner of the inaugural Versace Watch Talent competition organized in collaboration with the Ecole d’arts appliqués of La Chaux-de-Fonds. 12 students from the Swiss watchmaking university presented their projects for a new Versace women’s watch that will … Read more
Timepieces from the third millennium watchmaking Maison Space pilots of the world, prepare for lift-off ! The Romain Jerome Spacecraft will carry you off on an intergalactic mission to explore uncharted territories… RJ-Romain Jerome watch manufacture unveiled at this year’s Baselworld its first pilot’s watch: the Spacecraft. This 99-piece limited edition will delight devotees of horological complexity … Read more
For Felix Baumgartner, URWERK co-founder and master watchmaker, horology is in his blood. As he recognize he is a watchmaker by birth and a watchmaker by passion. The first musical concert he remembers was played by the more than 50 clocks tick-tocking in the atelier of his grandparents. Urwerk manufacture became the place where tradition … Read more
2luxury2 at Baselworld 2013: Girard-Perregaux’s Haute Horlogerie collection. Girard-Perregaux’s Constant Escapement Haute Horlogerie timepieces took 5 years of development. Let’s take a step back in time with Girard- Perregaux at BaselWorld 2013, one of the most prestigious watch and jewellery show in Switzerland. Based on the ground-breaking prototypes presented in 2008, it has taken five … Read more
2luxury2 at Baselworld 2013: Happy Sport Medium Automatic It was in 1993 that Caroline Scheufele, the Artistic Director and Co-President of Chopard, the Swiss-based luxury watches and jewellery manufacturer, created one of the Chopard icons, the Happy Sport watch. Repeatedly interpreted over the years in occasionally humorous and consistently elegant ways, it has lived under various … Read more