From the workbench
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Light as plastic, hard as steel
22 July 2008 - 18th issueTimm Delfs - Carbon fibre, used mainly in aerospace for its high rigidity and very light weight, is appreciated by watchmakers for the same reasons, and for its decorative high-tech appearance. Explanations with Audemars Piguet.
Flight time
20 June 2008 - 17th issueLouis Nardin - Pilots never take off without a watch in the cockpit. In the air as at sea, time is an essential factor when plotting a position and, alongside cockpit instruments, brands have developed wristwatches with useful functions when in flight. The flyback chronograph and slide rule are two inventions in which the measurement of time and aeronautics combine.
In the very best hands
20 May 2008 - 16th IssueLouis Nardin - Their feather weight and slender size means they often go unnoticed, and yet with the exception of disc and roller displays, the vast majority of watches use hands to indicate the time. A visit to Waeber HMS, a maker of hands based in Fleurier.
Girard-Perregaux reinvents the escapement
12 April 2008 - 15th IssueChristophe Roulet - Girard-Perregaux has named its latest feat of technology after one of the brand’s illustrious pioneers: the Constant escapement, made possible by the latest silicon treatment technology, is designed to maintain constant amplitude until all the energy has been supplied to the balance.
A. Lange & Söhne Cabaret Tourbillon
7 April 2008 - 15th IssuePeter Braun - A. Lange & Söhne presents a delicate tourbillon mechanism set inside the Cabaret watch’s rectangular case. True to form, the manufacture’s watchmakers have given it a subtle but infinitely sophisticated twist: this particular tourbillon can be stopped and time set to the nearest second.
Blancpain takes a karrusel ride
6 April 2008 - 15th IssueFlorence Noël - The brand reinstates a complication that had lain forgotten for more than a century, and which offers an alternative to the tourbillon.
The Japanese approach to Fine Watchmaking
19 March 2008 - 14th IssueTimm Delfs - Certain of the timepieces proposed by Seiko Epson, still a family-owned group, easily meet the criteria of many a Swiss brand that prides itself on being part of the Fine Watch segment. The Grand Seiko and Credor lines are two examples.
Fifty Fathoms: a legend revisited
21 February 2008 - 13th IssueEric Othenin-Girard - Blancpain’s ties with the underwater world go back further than some may imagine. Indeed, in the early 1950s the brand created a diving watch with serious credentials. It now revisits this legend with three models in the Fifty Fathoms family.
Audemars Piguet sets out to revisit striking watches
22 January 2008 - 12th IssueChristophe Roulet - A specialist in striking watches, Audemars Piguet has embarked on a research project in collaboration with the Hautes Écoles of French-speaking Switzerland, aimed at recreating the lost sound of turn-of-the-century pieces. The project should come to fruition by 2010.
The Da Vinci chronograph: an accomplished Renaissance
20 December 2007 - 11th IssueFlavia Giovannelli - More than 488 years after the death of Leonardo, IWC is beginning a new era with regards measuring time, inaugurated with the Da Vinci Chronograph this spring. This model that comes in three versions will definitely remain one of the year’s most interesting.
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