With his keen eye for young talent like Alexander Zverev, the world’s current #3 tennis player - who was #38 on the ATP Tour in 2016 when he joined the Richard Mille family - or Charles Leclerc, Alexis Pinturault, and so many others, Richard Mille has signed a partnership with Yuliya Levchenko. Yuliya will certainly find a place next to Mutaz Essa Barshim, her masculine counterpart and undisputed king of the discipline. On the field, she will leap for the gold wearing an RM 07-01 Automatic Ladies in Carbon TPT®.

Bell & Ross, in collaboration with Gaspard Horlogerie-Bijouterie, has participated in the sixth edition of the biennial offshore event in the South Pacific as the official timekeeper of the sailing race. With its 1.500 km long around the biggest lagoon in the world, the race started on Sunday June 17th from Nouméa, gathering a total of 24 monohulls and multihulls. The fastest anticlockwise sail around New Caledonia is passing through Cap N’Dua in the south and Grand Passage at the extreme north to eventually finish off Nouméa.

On June 16th, Jaeger-LeCoultre celebrated the opening of the Shanghai International Film Festival, tThis 21st edition coinciding with the 185th anniversary of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Manufacture.

The first collection that you worked on for Montblanc was the TimeWalker. We saw some new models again this year. How has the collection evolved over the past couple of years?
In effect 2017 was a seminal year for the launch of sport watches and we worked in detail to look into the history of Minerva to find links with motorsport and performance. An incredible exploration in timekeeping took place in Minerva during the first half of the 20th century with counters that were either tools to measure performance, in particular short time frames (from 1/5th of a second down to 1/100th of a second in 1936), or that were specific to particular sports, such rally, football, rowing and horse riding. Leveraging this unique heritage we created the concept of “spirit of racing” to support and inspire the relaunch and re-design of the TimeWalker collection.

Watchmaker of the oceans, Ulysse Nardin announces a partnership with Alex Caizergues, the first to surpass 100 km/h on the water by sail power. With an impressive list of achievements to his name across all board sports, the French kitesurfer currently holds the World Sailing Speed Kitesurfing record, with a run averaging 107.3 km/h, or 57.98 knots (over 500m). 

The big WorldTempus summer competition is back again this year with the same successful formula: 93 days of competition, from 21st June until 21st September, 1 question per day and one prize per day. 

At Baselworld in 2014, a journalist colleague asked me pointedly whether I thought that blue was the new black. True, blue was increasingly ubiquitous. Since then, at predictable intervals, I’ve seen various headlines and press releases claiming that brown or green are also the new black.