You'd be forgiven for thinking that the name "Tortour" almost sounds like "torture", and for good reason: in the highest difficulty category of the race, 1000 kilometres and a number of Swiss Alpine passes lie between the start and the finish in Schaffhausen. The participants are on the go day and night, meaning that their support teams also need to be available around the clock. 

If you wanted to buy every one of the 195 timepieces entered for the GPHG this year, it would cost you precisely 17,738,069 Swiss francs, a figure that comes eerily close to the 17.8 million US dollars that were paid for one single watch, the Rolex Daytona that belonged to Paul Newman, at auction last year. Among these 195 watches, there is the usual extreme in terms of price. The cheapest watch on the list is the Ikepod Duopod Dots at 500 Swiss francs (incidentally it’s great to see Ikepod back on the scene and true to form with their designs). The most expensive watch is Greubel Forsey’s Grande Sonnerie, which costs roughly the same as the altogether different Audemars Piguet Diamond Outrage that held the same honour last year. Both will set you back a cool 1.238 million Swiss francs.

Josef Pallweber was an Austrian watchmaker who patented a combined jumping-hour digital display for pocket watches in 1883. He sold licenses to his patent to Cortébert Watch, who were the first to implement it in a pocket watch case, and IWC, who had the greater success with its digital-display pocket watches, producing some 20,000 of them starting in 1885. The success was shortlived, however, as popularity for the watches (which were perhaps ahead of their time) waned. This year, IWC brings back this unique functionality for the first time in a wristwatch with digital hours and minutes. Produced in celebration of the company’s 150th anniversary and available as limited editions in platinum (25), red gold (250) and stainless steel (500), it bears the name “Tribute to Pallweber”, since the rights to the Josef Pallweber name are owned by another Swiss brand that offers watches featuring a design similar to Pallweber’s but without the full complexity.

The Laureato made its grand comeback in 2016, initially as a limited edition marking Girard-Perregaux’ 225th Anniversary, and then a year later as a constantly expanding collection. With its 43mm diameter case, the new Laureato Tourbillon features a stylish aesthetics, a horological content stemming from historical skills, and a tourbillon held by an arrow-shaped bridge.

The ceremony was held at an event coinciding with the launch of the 2018 Longines Irish Champions Weekend – of which the brand is Title Partner and Official Timekeeper – taking place at Leopardstown Racecourse on Saturday 15th September and the Curragh Racecourse on Sunday 16th September. Since its creation, the award honours distinguished personalities for their lifelong contributions to the world of horse racing. 

August 14th 2018, TAG Heuer announced the extension of its partnership as Official Timekeeper of the Premier League, English football championship.

From July 6-8, At the Circuit de la Sarthe, the organisers of the event, Peter Auto and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, as well as Richard Mille, its main partner, welcomed 135,000 spectators over the course of three days, over 700 classic cars in competition, 200 automobile clubs, 1,000 drivers — including 10 winners of the 24 Hours of Le Mans—representing 30 different nations. 

When you look at a watch, what you usually want to see first is the time, and it is this insight that lies behind the creative process. The Crazy Wheel collection - consisting in nine different versions - shakes up the codes of this traditional industry by offering a brand new hours and minutes display. The Crazy Wheel collection boasts a style dedicated to telling the time and its name pays tribute to the built-in sub counter that revolves around the dial.

Breguet’s efforts to draw in a younger customer base have been noticeable since late last year. There has always been a special kind of veneration for the jewel in the Swatch Group’s crown, which no doubt comes from the special regard in which Nicolas G. Hayek held Breguet. Any change of direction or strategy, however slight it may be, was therefore never going to be easy. So how does Breguet’s effort, the Classic Tour, shape up?

Even before you consider the limited-edition appeal of this piece, the “regular” 1815 Tourbillon sets a high standard in terms of its horological content. When it was presented four years ago, this tourbillon combined two patented developments by A. Lange & Söhne for the first time on a tourbillon: the zero-reset mechanism and the stop seconds mechanism. 

Anchored on the shores of Lake Neuchâtel, at the crossroads of Swiss watchmaking terroirs, the ultimate watch brand Kerbedanz combines its unique creations or its ultralimited series with the delicious times of universal symbolisms. Its existential maxim? "Symbols & Legends".The brand loves cultural allusions that incline to the introduction in its timepieces of subliminal messages with plural resonances. Especially when these are full of poetry. 

A company created in 1848 by Louis Brandt and now owned by the Swatch Group, Omega is famous worldwide for its role as official timekeeper of the Olympic Games (since 1932), for its Speedmaster, the first watch ever worn on the moon, in 1969, and for his association with the world’s favourite spy. The company has also teamed up with humanitarian organizations and non-profit organisations to promote conservation and clean energy.

Jaquet Droz is writing a new chapter in its special relationship with China. The grand opening of the Xi’an boutique thus solidifies a history that the Jaquet-Droz family first began to write 280 years ago.