Jack Forster reviews the Glashütte Original Grande Cosmopolite Tourbillon timepiece

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superwatch. No, it's not faster than a speeding bullet, but it's close; the new Breguet Classique Chronometrie 7727 is equipped with a special high frequency escapement, beating at 10 hertz.

Women who like to make fashion statements with the style of their watch might have to re-consider the present fashion movements that have long embraced the use of tourbillons in timepieces.

If you're a regular Haute Time reader you probably know that some of the biggest innovations in recent years are in the development of chronographs capable of measuring ever-smaller fractions of a second.

There's no doubt that it's one of the most imitated (if not the most imitated) watches in the world: the Cartier Tank, first introduced in 1918, has a shape which probably millions would recognize without necessarily realizing that it is a specific watch, by a particular company, made at a very particular point in time.

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 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.)

Debuting at SIHH, Richard Mille's RM 050 Tourbillon Split Seconds Competition Chronograph Felipe Massa is a special a limited edition creation of just of 10 pieces.

Graham London recently debuted its smart and sleek Tourbillograph Full Black. This is no ordinary tourbillon though- the racing style Full Black is an automatic one minute tourbillon developed with a powerful design and a rich technological content

We're just back from one of the central events of the watch lover's (and watch journalist's) year: the Salon International Haute Horlogerie in Geneva, where luxury watch brands under the aegis of the Richemont Group (as well as a few other brands that prefer the relative calm of the SIHH to the rugby-scrum hurly-burly of the Other Watch Fair, BaselWorld) show what's new and (we hope) exciting for 2012.

As every keen watch enthusiast knows, this year marks an important anniversary in the history of both watchmaking, and a small, independent, family-owned company based in Le Brassus, Switzerland, known as Audemars Piguet.

There are any number of pilot's watches being made around the world. Far fewer are those that are actually made by pilots, for pilots. In this latter, very small category, is the English company known as Bremont, which was started in 2007 by two English brothers named, conveniently enough, Nick and Giles English.

The world of complicated watches has a hierarchy that begins with the simplest calendar mechanism and ascends through an increasingly sophisticated variety of mechanisms –some useful, some beautiful, some both.  Enthusiasts differ on personal favorites, but on one point there’s nearly universal agreement: the minute repeater is the pinnacle of complications both in terms of […]

When the original Datograph from Lange & Söhne debuted in 1999, it was hailed as a triumph –not only for its intrinsic qualities but also as a demonstration of the expertise in watchmaking in the German style represented by Lange.

Though we often focus on new watches here at Haute Time, we think there’s something to be said for looking backwards and learning from the past as well.  There has been an interesting change in watchmaking in recent decades.  Watches used to be, by and large, practical instruments designed to unobtrusively tell the time, and […]

The perpetual calendar is one of the best known complications in watchmaking and one of the most useful: it’s a miniature computer that automatically corrects the date at the end of each month, since some months (as the children’s rhyme reminds us) are 30 days long, and some 31.  The odd man out is February: […]