A chronograph is basically a very simple device: it's a combination of a wristwatch and a stopwatch. Able to tell time as well as measure elapsed time, it's one of the most useful in daily life of all watchmaking's complications, whether you're timing a three minute egg or, as Apollo 13's crew did, using one to time course correction engine burns to guide a crippled spacecraft home (the crew was forced to use their Omega Speedmaster wristwatches as all electrical power to their cabin instruments had been cut to conserve battery power.)

The Bell & Ross company has always been dedicated to designing extraordinary watches for specialized functions. Founded in 1992 by an elite group of designers and aerospace engineers, Bell & Ross has never strayed from the principles needed to produce only the best and finest timepieces. The BR S Heritage and BR 03-92 Heritage watches […]

Subsequent to the Bulgari family selling their shares of French luxury group LVMH, sales dropped 3.5%. The family was under guidance from the same financial consultant who acted as their counselor when they sold the Bulgari ‘family jewels’ to LVMH last year for a 60% premium. Bulgari vice-president Nicola Bulgari and Bulgari chairman Paolo Bulgari […]

This not to be missed event combines design, photography, film and sound creating the Royal Oak 40th anniversary worldwide exhibition. Celebrating 40 years of Audemars Piguet’s iconic timepiece Royal Oak, the world’s first luxury sports timepiece that sparked a complete shift in the watch industry, the Swiss Manufacture from Le Brassus in the Vallee de Joux […]

Check out Haute Time’s the exclusive interview with Jacob Arabo, owner and founder of Jacob & Company. 1.  Tell us some of the most exciting developments at jacob and Co today?  Jacob & Co. continues to build on its multi-time zone collection and most recently, introduced the Grand and the Global watch collections. Each features a […]

The world’s largest watchmaker, Swatch said it expects growth to continue this year after a good start in January. The company, whose products range from high-end automatic watches like Breguet and Blancpain to the widely recognized plastic watches, is gaining from demand mainly among Asian consumers – along with a few other select Swiss watch […]

It is still unknown if Panerai will be releasing this dazzling watch anytime soon, but one of the Paneristi Team managed to snap a couple of shots of it at SIHH. Most likely it is an prototype however, with several high profile brands venturing back into the pocket watch world over the last few years, […]

  Vacheron Constantin has always been a great supporter of Geneva Musee d Art et d’Histoire and will be displaying a few of their rare timepieces at the “Watchmaking in Geneva. The Magic of Craftsmanship, Treasures of Gold and Enamel” exhibit. The exhibit has been ongoing and will run until the end of April 2012 […]

Luxury Swiss Watchmaker Hublot will proudly present the amfAR New York Gala on Feb. 8. The gala will honor influential crusaders in the global struggle against HIV/AIDS. The black-tie benefit will be hosted by Sarah Jessica Parker. The event will feature performances by Janelle Monae and Theophilus London, a gala dinner, silent auction and honoree […]

The remarkable work of Dutch artist M. C. Escher has been a subject of fascination for art lovers and mathematicians alike for many decades. (One of the most intriguing results of his work is the enormous Pulitzer Prize winning book by Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, a Pulitzer Prize winning magnum opus that interrelates Escher's work with Gödel's incompleteness theorems, and with J. S. Bach's fugues, all of which are self-referential in structure.)

A crew of four robbers made their way into the exhibition at Cité du Temps in Geneva and destroyed cases, attempting to steal some of the X Fathoms watches, but the robbery was intercepted by company SIC. A representative from Swatch, which owns the Blancpain brand, stated that “most of the watches” were recovered and […]

  High-end brands will be searching for alternative suppliers now that Swatch Group has decided to lower the watch part supplies to rival watchmakers. For decades Swatch has served as one of the main suppliers, providing as much as 80% of Swiss movements and their Nivarox arm, which dominated the market for oscillating parts and […]

Distinguished Swiss watchmaker Jaquet Droz announced their launch of a micro-site dedicated to the brand’s historical automatons and its recent exposition tour, “Automates et Merveilles.” Pierre Jaquet Droz was not only considered an imaginative watchmaker but well known for perfecting and selling sophisticated automatons. His work culminated with three humanoid robots: The Writer, The Draughtsman […]

During Rick Ross’s 36th Birthday party at Club Amnesia in Miami, Dr. Dre broke out his lavish present, a $100,000 Hublot watch!

Cartier, the jeweler whose clientele have included the actress Elizabeth Taylor and the tsar of Russia , says they are pulling ahead of luxury rivals with watches that match the tenor of the times for less brazen exhibits of wealth. Cartier is gaining market share in part because the financial slowdown is steering customers to […]

Today the Franck Muller group continues to be a leader in the luxury watch segment in both design and movement development and manufacturing. We are excited to welcome our many guests to Watchland next week in Geneva to showcase our new developments in Franck Muller and other brands in our group. We are also very excited about the new “Jetliner” watch introduction in CVSTOS.