The design U-Boat Watch Store by Alessandro Luciani has been awarded with the notable Silver A’ Design Award at Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition. The award-winning project is a luxurious and original interior design for made in Italy watch store – U-BOAT by Italo Fontana. The idea of design aims to present a store … 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
Venenum by Italo Fontana & Dino Romano – the first U-BOAT Bike Venenum is the concept of time translated into a bike. U-BOAT‘s innovative watches are now embodied in a bold motorcycle concept of complete freedom. This concept have always won over U-BOAT designer Italo Fontana. These visions of the Time, the sense of freedom … 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. In 1912 Jacqueline Hermès wears the first wristwatch ever created by Hermès. As a child Jacqueline could not wear a watch attached to her clothing or slipped into her pocket. Especially for her, her father devised an ingenious “porte-oignon” or pocket-watch holder designed to fasten it onto the wrist. Drawing upon … Read more