Haute watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre and luxury car manufacturer Aston Martin are celebrating their eighth anniversary as partners with the presentation of the AMVOX7, a timepiece considered to be a vision of the future as it the first vertical trigger watch that is outfitted with a radial power-reserve display. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2bvGjCZuDg The new chronograph has all of the […]

2013 is the Year of the Snake in the Chinese Zodiac, in which –unlike Western astrology, where the symbolic animal changes every month –an animal reigns for an entire year. The Snake personality is calm and unruffled on the surface, but just as with an actual snake, someone born under this sign can strike without […]

Tomorrow, Friday November 16, Boca Raton will host the highly-anticipated 12th Annual High Roller poker tournament. The all-day event, which is sponsored by luxury watchmakers Ulysse Nardin, will include lunch at the Merle Wood Yacht and dinner at the Buddha Sky Bar, culminating in the tournament itself at One Thousand Ocean, PH2. Top prizes for the event’s winners include […]

This week, the exceptionally rare platinum perpetual calendar chronograph wristwatch with moon phases, ref. 2499/100, manufactured by Patek Philippe in 1987 and offered from the collection of Eric Clapton, sold for $3,635,808, setting a world record price for this reference at auction. The top price of the sale was paid for the ‘J.B. Champion Platinum […]

Today’s Haute Time Watch of the Day is the Classique Grande Complication by Breguet. The 44mm platinum case houses a 588 Calibre hand-wound movement with two tourbillons which rotate with the passing hours. The sapphire caseback shows a hand engraved drawing of the solar system which is inspired by the 60 second rotation of the […]

Luxury jewelers watchmakers Van Cleef & Arpels and Cartier are suing a NYC “luxury watch shop” in the city’s Diamond District for allegedly selling old, damaged and refurbished timepieces from the two companies as “brand new”.  The refurbished watches were fetching prices as high as $85,000. Van Cleef & Arpels and Cartier are seeking to […]

What would British secret agent James Bond be without his OMEGA watch? Omegas are as synonymous with the international man of mystery as is the Aston Martin and the martini. 007 always has a spectacular timepiece on his wrist—and occasionally it makes its way into the plotline. Here are our top five favorite moments when […]

Formula 1 has not had an easy time of it in the United States. Despite its huge international audience –over 500 million viewers in nearly 200 countries –it’s never quite managed to take hold here. With no US team or driver since the shutdown of the US F1 team in 2010, and with no US […]

Grieb & Benzinger, the German haute horlogerie house that specializes in skeletonized chronographs, have made dreams come true for a very few incredibly lucky women. Until very recently, Grieb & Benzinger only made men’s watches; however, in the summer of this year a Russian businesswoman who became enamored of the stunning skeletonized Blossom timepiece got […]

Salon QP has become one of the most important fairs in the luxury watch market and in four short years has become one of the top events in the haute horlogerie industry.  The most famous of luxury watchmakers also rub shoulders with lesser-known, yet equally fabulous houses of timepiece craftsmanship. An elite selection of watchmakers […]

Luxury watchmakers Hublot have designated November 15th, 2012 as a day to help raise funds for victims of Hurricane Sandy. The Swiss company announced today that 25% of proceeds from all sales in Hublot’s boutiques across the United States will be donated to relief efforts in the wake of the devastating storm. “So many lives […]

When the best of one world meet the best of another, the result is bound to be legendary. Such is the case for Breitling’s newest collaboration; the luxury watchmakers announced today that soccer legend David Beckham has been chosen as the face of Breitling’s Transocean Chronograph Unitime Worldtimer watch. The collaboration between the historic Swiss brand and […]

Sheikh Saud Bin Mohammed Bin Ali Al-Thani, cousin to the Emir of Qatar, has pledged a collection of valuable items worth $83 million including the world’s most expensive watch to Sotheby’s to cover debts that are owed to the famed auction house, say court documents. The Qatari Sheikh gave Sotheby’s collectible items such as tribal […]

Today, the Hybris Mechanica À Grande Sonnerie by Jaeger-LeCoultre was selected by Carmelo Anthony as the  Haute Time Watch of the Day. This impressive timepiece is part of The Grandes Complications collection by Jaeger-LeCoultre, and is known for the longest melody a complication has ever chimed, playing four full Westminster Chimes powered by a 12-hour power reserve. The watch case is 18k […]

Although the winds may have been howling, the show went on in true sailing spirit as luxury watchmakers Officine Panerai gathered to host the exclusive New York premier of “07/07/07: Amorita’s Unlucky Day”.  The documentary film follows the crash of the Amorita yacht, in which the boat sunk almost instantaneously to the bottom of the ocean. Miraculously nobody […]