With the Altiplano Ultimate Automatic 910P, Piaget have decided to take back their record for the world’s thinnest automatic watch. It was theirs previously, and then in 2017 they lost it to Italian upstarts Bulgari who weighed in at 5.15 mm. The Piaget 910P does much better at just 4.3 mm thick, and it took…
Richard Mille has introduced the RM 67-02 Automatic in two versions. Each is dedicated to an athlete, South African sprint champion Wayde Van Niekerk and Qatari high jump champion Mutaz Essa Barshim. The RM 67-02 is based on the RM 67-01, which has been given a sports look with its ultra-slim case, just 7.8 mm…
The Piaget Altiplano 900P pink gold was launched in 2014 to mark the brand’s 140th anniversary, and this year, 2017, the 60th anniversary year of the Piaget Altiplano, a new pink gold edition has been introduced. It’s a limited edition of 200 pieces, available from April 2017, price €27,300. It’s still the slimmest mechanical watch…
The new Royal Oak Extra-Thin by Audemars Piguet marks an anniversary: 1977, the year when the first 39mm Royal Oak in yellow gold was introduced. It became known as the Jumbo, and at that time it marked a new departure, the use of precious metal for the Royal Oak, which had been introduced in 1972…
After the Octo Finissimo Tourbillon and the Octo Finissimo Minute Repeater, Bulgari claims another record with the Octo Finissimo Automatic, thinnest automatic watch in the world. Multifaceted cool The Octo Finissimo Automatic by Bulgari is extraordinary to see, touch and wear. It’s not small, at 40 mm, but its thickness of 5.15 mm really makes…
This year is the 60th anniversary of the Altiplano. “Today,” said Piaget CEO Philippe Leopold-Metzger, who will be retiring on 31 March 2017, “it has become the line that we sell most, and most transversally, with 40% sold to women. We are working on complications, introducing the chronograph two years ago, and now we are…
One of the two new models in Cartier’s Drive collection in 2017 (with the Drive de Cartier Moon Phases), the Drive de Cartier Extra Flat lives up to its name, with case thickness less than 7 mm. In pink gold, it’s cool; in white gold, it becomes the perfect dress watch, with an uncluttered dial,…
The wealth of watches presented by Jaeger-LeCoultre this year at SIHH almost defies belief. One model after another, with many technical innovations, and a whole series of fine jewellery watches in the Hybris Artistica collection. But it was the Master Ultra Thin Minute Repeater Flying Tourbillon that really caught my attention, and not just for…