This past weekend Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz joined luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer in Monte Carlo at the 2013 Monaco Grand Prix celebration. The Hollywood superstars joined F1 racing legends and HSH Prince Albert of Monaco to celebrate TAG Heuer’s ongoing partnership with the ACM and the Monaco Grand Prix at the 71st running of […]

Luxury watchmaker Patek Philippe has unveiled a new grand complication with the Ref. 6002 Sky Moon Tourbillon. According to the manufacture this timepiece is based on the Ref. 5002 Sky Moon Tourbillon, Patek Philippe’s most complicated wristwatch, with 12 complications on two dials. The new Ref. 6002, the Sky Moon Tourbillon also boasts impressive complications, […]

Today’s Haute Time Watch of the Day is The Openworked Extra-Thin Tourbillon by Audemars Piguet. The Openworked Extra-Thin Tourbillon is part of the Royal Oak Collection by Audemars Piguet and features a Calibre 2924 Openworked Manufacture, hand-wound, tourbillon movement housed in a 41 mm 950 platinum case. The beautiful, openworked, slate grey dial features white gold applied hour-markers and Royal Oak hands with luminescent […]

Luxury watchmaker Girard-Perregaux is set to make a foray into the art world at the 55th annual Venice Art Biennale. The manufacture is supporting the “BlueForest”, a conceptual project by artist and architect Lucio Micheletti which will appear at the art fair starting on June 1. Presented with Galleria Ca’ D’oro, the “Blue Forest” project […]

Luxury watchmaker Ulysse Nardin has added to its Classico Cloisonné collection with the new Pride of Baltimore. This timepiece was inspired the historic Baltimore Clippers, who broke the British naval blockade of the US coastline during the War of 1812. Ulysse Nardin is memorializing one of the most famous Baltimore Clipper sailors, Captain Thomas Boyle […]

Today’s Haute Time Watch of the Day is The Red’N’Black Skeleton Tourbillon by Hublot. This special timepiece was created to pay tribute to the red of Monaco for Only Watch 2013 for the 5th edition of the Only Watch Auction taking place in Monaco on September 28, 2013. Not only is this a special timepiece based on […]

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Chopard’s Happy Sport timepiece, but the Happy Diamonds concept itself has an earlier point of origin. It was created for jewelry in the 1970s by Caroline Scheufele, Chopard’s co-president and creative director, and stands as both a definitive interpretation of the ladies’ watch and as an early indication […]

Last week Porsche joined a small group of luxury green automakers with the unveiling of the 918 Spyder, a new hybrid sportscar. The 918 Spyder was designed by the Porsche engineers who build race cars based on the hybrid drive concept, and the automaker is touting this model as their car of the future. According […]

Audemars Piguet Boutique has just debuted a new look for their Bal Harbour Shops boutique with innovative details capturing the 138-year old watchmaker’s principal values. Located on the first floor next to the Chanel boutique, Audemars Piguet displays wood and metallic landscapes evoking the Vallée de Joux region in Switzerland, which is the birthplace of […]

Once it became essential for watch brands to demonstrate their status by introducing at least one tourbillon, the race to create the most unusual tourbillon ensued. Double, triple, inclined, blackened, skeletonized and gem-set tourbillons soon emerged, usually in enormous cases. But few brands concentrated on creating a tourbillon for ladies. De Grisogono is one of […]

Luxury watchmaker A. Lange & Söhne is helping the iconic designer Ralph Lauren celebrate his “Best of Show” automobile prize. Lauren was awarded the prize in Como, where Lange CEO Wilhelm Schmid also awarded him a special model of the LANGE 1 TIME ZONE crafted exclusively to celebrate the designer’s award-winning Bugatti 57 SC Atlantic […]

Luxury watchmaker Urwerk has unveiled the EMC, the world’s first mechanical ‘smart’ watch movement. The EMC timepiece is a fully mechanical movement with an electronic brain that calculates precision. The manufacture develop the EMC in their U-Research Division, Urwerk’s ‘experimental laboratory’. The challenge was to provide watch connoisseurs with not only a precision timepiece, but […]

Today’s Haute Time Watch of the Day is the Patravi Travel Tec FourX Limited Edition by Carl F. Bucherer. A new addition to The Patravi Collection is this limited edition timepiece features a Caliber CFB 1901.1 automatic movement with a 42 hour power reserve. The case of The Travel Tec FourX is 18k rose gold and is equipped with a […]

Rock Stars: Haute Time’s Five Best Diamond Tourbillons The only thing more beautiful than a tourbillon is a tourbillon set with diamonds – the light show from a surface of diamonds combined with the dance of the tourbillon is surely watchmaking’s greatest performance. Aside from that, the intriguing thing about these diamond-set tourbillons is that […]

IWC Schaffhausen announced the addition of two prominent ambassadors this week: Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg of the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ Team. IWC was named the Official Engineering Partner to the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS team earlier this year. Georges Kern, the CEO of IWC Schaffhausen, told us; “Lewis and Nico are two amazing […]

Today’s Haute Time Watch of the Day is the Tank Americaine Tourbillon Volant by Catier. This beautiful timepiece features a Cartier Caliber 9452MC, manually winding movement with a flying tourbillon and a 50 hour power reserve.  The recognizeable Cartier Tank Americaine case measures 52 mm by 36mm. Created in 18k rose gold with a sapphire crystal cabochon topping the crown […]