Today’s Haute Time Watch of the Day is the Clifton 10060 by Baume & Mercier. Inspired by the “golden fifties”, this timepiece was released as part of Baume & Mercier’s museum collection and is a beautiful example of the classic and timeless designs The Clifton line represents. The Clifton 10060 features an 18k red-gold case with …
Harry Winston’s been very much in the news lately –and not just the watch news. In a surprise announcement, it was recently revealed that the company has been acquired by the Swatch Group, in a deal that reportedly totaled about $1 billion. The purchase of Harry Winston by the Swatch Group has left many enthusiasts …
Not only does 2013 mark IWC’s Official Engineering Partnership with The Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One™ Team, it also marks the launch of The Ingenieur Automatic Carbon Performance limited edition timepiece. This special relationship between these two prestigious teams represents the perfect combination of precision, performance and high tech engineering needed for both high performance race …
Magnetism was, through most of the history of watchmaking, a significant problem. The issue was at the very heart of the watch itself. There are two coiled springs inside a watch –one, the mainspring, provides power. The other, far more delicate, is the spiral balance spring, so thin that it’s also called the hairspring. Its …
A. Lange & Söhne’s technical director, Anthony de Haas, is a tall, powerfully built man with linebacker’s shoulders, famous for both his technical prowess and self-deprecating sense of humor. We’ve listened to a number of his SIHH presentations, and over the years, heard him respond, “wait and see,” innumerable times to a question even he …
Superlatives should be used sparingly in watchmaking –especially mechanical watchmaking, which is (to put it mildly) a mature technology, having been evolving for over five centuries; they should especially be used sparingly when characterizing mechanical innovations, which, one often suspects, are there more to give watch fans and writers something to talk and write about …
The Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie is, as most Haute Time readers probably know, the invitation-only event held annually in Geneva during which the luxury watch companies that are part of the Richemont Group –a distinguished list that includes Piaget, IWC, Van Cleef and Arpels, and Cartier –as well as allied firms such as …
