Urwerk EMC Time Hunter

Urwerk EMC Time Hunter

One of the most surprising things that is happening in high-end watches is that the hallowed ground of mechanical movements is beginning to be violated by electronics. One example is the Piaget Emperador Coussin XL 700P presented at SIHH 2016, which has a totally mechanical gear train powered by a conventional oscillating weight, but also…

HYT H2 Tradition

HYT has been asking itself what its watches would look like if they had been made in the 18th century. The result is the H2 Tradition, with the same H2 fluid engineering as in the original H2 watch launched in 2013, with hours shown by blue fluid in a capillary tube and driven by two…

Hautlence HL Black Ceramic

The HL Black Ceramic is a good example of Hautlence’s mission to create different ways of telling the time. It is the new version of an existing model – the Hautlence HL, the brand’s very first calibre presented a couple of years after the brand’s foundation in 2004 – with jumping hours on the left,…

Arnold & Son Golden Wheel

Arnold & Son say that this is the first “wandering hours and true beat seconds” watch, inspired by mid-18th century table clocks. Without doubt it is an unusual way of showing the time, by a company whose mission is, at least in part, dedicated to throwing more light onto the historical importance of British watchmaker…

Van Cleef & Arpels takes to the air in 2016

Van Cleef & Arpels have released news about one of their new watches that they will be presenting at the upcoming show SIHH, taking place in Geneva from 18 to 22 January 2016. The brand specializes in a very poetic depiction of time (their description The Poetry of Time is a registered trademark), in which…

Harry Winston Opus 14

So, the Opus series has survived Harry Winston’s change of ownership – now part of Swatch Group – and it will apparently continue, though new Opus watches will be launched less frequently than in the past. Judging from Opus 14, the concept has also changed. The Opus series of watches by outstanding watchmakers were hallmarked…

Romain Gauthier Logical One

I recently wrote about the Breguet Tradition Chronographe Indépendant 7077 and how its pusher system of winding the blade spring chronograph could represent an important innovation for watchmaking because a pusher is a more robust mechanism than a winding crown, less subject to breakage and overwinding. In actual fact, another brand has already applied this…