The former footballer known as “The Lion” wanted to collaborate with Corum, a desire shared by the brand itself. “I had been planning to work with him for a long time,” explains Jérôme Biard, CEO of Corum. “I knew that he was a collector with a very sophisticated taste. He wanted to get in touch with us and, at the same time, so did we. So, we met up in Lausanne, with the shared desire to create something together.” From a friendship born out of a mutual and simultaneous desire comes a very exclusive Bubble watch.

IWC Schaffhausen is expanding its Portugieser family to include two new models, a perpetual calendar with platinum case, and a new Portugieser Automatic in a stainless steel case with a silver-plated dial and rhodium-plated hands. We present today the Portugieser Perpetual Calendar (ref. IW503406).

The Watch Photo Awards were launched on 1st May 2018. It’s the first annual international watch photography competition open to amateur watch lovers and photographers, as well as professionals. This year will feature six monthly competitions: one for every month from May to October, each on a different theme. The first round, which took place in May, has just ended. The theme was “Blue”. 

A jewel of France’s cultural heritage, the Musée Rodin played host on Saturday June 2nd to a sensational Charity Gala Dinner organised by Longines to honour its Ambassadors of Elegance Stefanie Graf and Andre Agassi, two tennis legends it has been closely involved with for a decade. To mark this anniversary, Longines created the “Conquest V.H.P. Stefanie Graf & Andre Agassi Foundations”, a special watch numbered and limited to 10 pieces for the men’s version and 10 pieces for the ladies’ version. As part of the Conquest V.H.P. “Very High Precision” collection, these timepieces are also an emblem of generosity, as they will be auctioned with all proceeds going to Children for Tomorrow and The Andre Agassi Foundation for Education, two charities founded by the Ambassadors of Elegance.

It has been several years since Lapo Elkann, Founder and Artistic Director of Italia Independent and Garage Italia, and Hublot were discussing about a nautical-related watch. From his earliest childhood, Lapo was cradled by the movement of the waves, thanks to his iconic grandfather who was himself passionate about sailing. Lapo even won the Fastnet, with his brother aboard the mythical Stealth.

When watch glasses were made out of plastic (usually plexiglas) or mineral glass (borosilicate, for example), it was a simple matter to create them in whatever shape was required. Nothing could be easier than to dome them, raise them up vertically, or add one or more curves or bevels. To create top-hat or concave profiles, softer materials could simply be carved or hot-moulded. Then, in the 1980s, sapphire crystal appeared on the scene, and over the following decade it became ubiquitous. Because sapphire is extremely hard, all these curves and contours had to go, because they were too expensive and complex to produce, given the inherent properties of this new type of glass. But the years went by, and things moved on, and shaped watch glasses, now often referred to as “glass boxes”, have once again become a desirable component – an essential one, even, in some cases.