IWC's pilot watches, ready for takeoff
From the very first Special Pilot's Watch in 1936 right up to today, IWC has built a rich collection of pilot's watches. The flight plan couldn't have been clearer: legible, robust and precise!
Culture
Regulating organs, from past to present – Part five
Of all the inventions that have helped improve the precision of mechanical watches, none is more important, or less well-documented, than the development of the regulating organ. To help bridge that gap, we retrace the history of escapements from the earliest devices to the very latest silicon regulators. Part five: from the detached escapement of the nineteenth century to the pin-pallet escapement of the 1930s.
A graphic novel on famous men and their watches
Auctioneer Geoffroy Ader and his wife, the illustrator Neis, have published a graphic novel that traces the lives of twelve influential figures of the twentieth century, and the watches they owned and loved.
Cape Cod, the geometry of time by Hermès
In 1991, Hermès took the wraps off a form watch whose signature combination of a square, a rectangle and the iconic Chaîne d’Ancre motif has become a true classic.
When Paris eclipsed Geneva as a centre for watchmaking
The world equates watchmaking with Switzerland, so much so that it's hard to imagine it was ever any other way. And yet during the eighteenth century, horology's most brilliant minds descended on Paris, while Switzerland and Geneva had a reputation for "trinkets" and cheaper wares.
Richard Mille partners with global art platform Frieze
Richard Mille has signed a deal with Frieze, the leading platform for modern and contemporary art, for collectors and the public at large. The brand's watches will feature in Frieze Masters magazine and at Frieze London for its first ever showing of Haute Horlogerie timepieces.
Luxury watch brands and charities, a new value proposal
With products that ooze excess to the average consumer, luxury brands have looked for ways to support charities and prove that the bottom line isn't their only concern.
The Patek Philippe Calatrava says it all, with less
Form follows function. This Bauhaus principle was also that of Patek Philippe when it imagined the Calatrava in 1932. Clarity, elegance and the same remarkable simplicity of form have defined each variation ever since.
