Mr. Ron Lee, the owner of Chong Hing Jewelers in Los Angeles clearly has has fine taste in jewelry and timepieces. Here, he shares with Haute Time his favorite watches: A. Lange: 722.050 Breguet 5335 BR429W6 Roger Dubuis: double tourbillon, EX45-01SQ-50-00/0E00/B Corum: 313.150.55/0002FK02 Patek Philippe: 7071R   Chong Hing Jewelers is located at: 140 W. […]

Last night, the Park Avenue Armory was filled with luxury watch lovers and CEOs alike. For its second year the TimeCrafters Exhibition welcomes brands like Richard Mille, Omenga, Hublot, Girard Perregaux, Chopard, Bvlgari, Breguet, and Audemars Piguet to the city to showcase their fine craftesmenship and iconic pieces. Skilled watchmakers worked on rare pieces right […]

Millions of tourists visit Switzerland every year for its famous Alpine ski resorts and five-star spas on pristine lakes, but watch lovers know another Switzerland that combines the thrill of horological discovery with breathtaking scenery. Instead of the resorts and casinos of Lugano or the glamour and excitement of St. Moritz and Gstaad, they are […]

It may come as a surprise to those who assume that the world of appreciation of fine watchmaking is exclusively a male domain to find out that one of the greatest collectors of watches by one of the greatest of watchmakers was actually a woman. The lady in question was no ordinary lady, and the […]

Haute Time’s watch of the day, Breguet Marine Tourbillon Ref. 5839.  It is a recreation from the Breguet Marine Tourbillon Ref. 5837 but only with encrusted diamonds in it.  The watch is 43mm wide, built with 18k white gold case, and has around 11.77 carats of stones.  The Breguet caliber 554.4 manually-wounded movements and 50 […]

Swatch’s CEO Nick Hayak continued to make the rounds of the haute horology literati this week, touting the company’s increased sales even as the European Union pursued an antitrust probe into the Swiss watchmaking giant. Gross sales for the conglomerate were $3.87 billion in the first half of 2012, up 14.4 percent from the same […]

Swatch’s ambitious goal of earning $8.1 billion in 2012 is on track, according to CEO Nick Hayek. Last year’s sales broke records at $7.5 billion for the Swiss watchmaker. This year’s economic slowdown in China has been a cause of considerable anxiety for producers of high-end watches and other luxury goods, but Hayek says Swatch […]

Swiss watchmaker Breguet is an old salt when it comes to navigating the Atlantic, so it was no surprise to anyone last month when members of New York’s elite found themselves climbing aboard the USS Intrepid to toast the company’s rich history. The celebration has since moved to South Florida, at the Breguet boutique in […]

Go to any purveyor of luxury timepieces, scan the displays and you’ll see them –tourbillon wristwatches, which can often be spotted by the presence of an opening in the dial that shows a complicated rotating mechanism. If you’re passionate about the romance of mechanics, it’ll be love at first sight, though you may find the […]

Go to any purveyor of luxury timepieces, scan the displays and you’ll see them –tourbillon wristwatches, which can often be spotted by the presence of an opening in the dial that shows a complicated rotating mechanism. If you’re passionate about the romance of mechanics, it’ll be love at first sight, though you may find the […]

Elite watch brand Breguet christened its new exhibit aboard The Intrepid in Manhattan last night. Fittingly, the unfurling of “Breguet: Watchmaker, Aviator, Innovator” took place on Flag Day, with the collection of 26 Breguet timepieces (10 of them vintage pieces on display in America for the first time) stealing attention from The Intrepid’s fleet of […]

Elite watch brand Breguet christened its new exhibit aboard The Intrepid in Manhattan last night. Fittingly, the unfurling of “Breguet: Watchmaker, Aviator, Innovator” took place on Flag Day, with the collection of 26 Breguet timepieces (10 of them vintage pieces on display in America for the first time) stealing attention from The Intrepid’s fleet of […]

With a score of 8.3 out of 10, Breguet was rated first of 27 luxury watch brands for the upper-class US shoppers, said the 2012 Luxury Brand Status Index (LBSI) survey conducted by the Luxury Institute. The New York-based institute said Breguet achieved the top rank for its product design, customer service and brand reputation—the […]

Nearly 7 million Swiss francs brought together two special Breguet watches and their most fitting owner, the Breguet Museum. Breguet president Mark A. Hayek acquired these two classical timepieces at Christie’s auction in Geneva, Switzerland on May 14. These vestiges, relics of fine watchmaking history, set the record for being the most expensive ever purchased in Breguet’s history, and […]

 Watch brand Swiss Mountaineer dons Switzerland’s national flag on the dial of each timepiece. It claims it’s Swiss-made, but with its components made at a factory in Shenzhen, China and the company itself being owned by Hong Kong’s Golden Hawk, is it? Under Swiss rules, Golden Hawk can label its watches as Swiss-made so long […]

On Tuesday April 24, U.S. Brand President of Breguet, Michael Nelson hosted a special reception at the Breguet boutique in New York City,  kicking off the celebration of the Bicentennial of the invention of the wristwatch. The 5th Avenue boutique is not just a store, but a Breguet museum, where watch enthusiasts can view a wide […]