The Admiral 45 Bronze has been sailing the watchmaking seas for just over a year, displaying its patinated bronze case, teak pontoon dial, and iconic pennants, arranged around the twelve-sided bezel to display the hours befittingly for lovers of water sports, ocean-going races – and appealing to everyone who enjoys an assertive, sporty style.
What is your response after announcing your decision to Baselworld last summer?
We have had a kind of mini-revolution internally. Our entire planning and product cycle had always been organized around Baselworld. It was the time of year when we presented our new products and partnerships. So all of a sudden we had to adapt quickly to be ready for early January.
Where does our passion for watches come from? The answer to this fundamental question is often linked to our childhood, to the people who have influenced us and no doubt to our education (in the wider sense). I learned to love watches indirectly, not through the object itself but thanks to my dad’s interest in pens. As a family of immigrants, learning had always been important in our family and the pen was to some extent a kind of magical object.
If there’s one thing that everyone will remember from the SIHH 2019 it’s Code 11.59. It’s a rather strange name for a watch collection. The 11.59 is supposed to signal the arrival of a new day, although for an Anglo-Saxon audience it could just as easily be the minute before lunch time. But the SIHH is now over, the new day has begun and it’s one minute after midnight. Time to look ahead…
The launch of the Excalibur Huracán Performante on 1 December was accompanied by the arrival of Roger Dubuis’ new CEO, Nicola Andreatta. The launch of the Excalibur Huracán...
El Primero, the first automatic movement capable of measuring tenths of a second celebrates its 50th anniversary.
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This timepiece is the first of a Jubilee series celebrating the 25th anniversary of the refoundation of A. Lange & Söhne, in 1994. This timepiece is the first of a Jubilee...
“I prefer to be designing something that is disruptive now rather than re-interpreting something that was done in the past.” “I prefer to be designing something that...
Only Jacob & Co. could have the audacity to present one of watchmaking’s most sophisticated complications in a transparent case that has, among many things, an astronaut floating around in it. The Astronomia collection, which was the fruit of four years of work that combined the fantasy of Jacob Arabo with the talent of master watchmaker Luca Soprano, has always been clear – in both the figurative and literal senses – about our place in the cosmos and its unavoidable connection with time, the very reason we have timepieces in the first place.
