Avec son design qui s'inspire des milliards d'étoiles composant le système solaire, la Big Bang Unico Sapphire Galaxy évoque la Voie Lactée avec ses constellations d'étoiles et la matière invisible de l'Univers. Hublot a ainsi serti la lunette de son nouveau modèle de 48 pierres de taille baguette qui symbolisent les nuances des étoiles – du bleu pour les plus jeunes qui émettent des radiations chaudes – au rouge pour les étoiles plus anciennes qui émettent un rayonnement froid, rougeâtre. Un dégradé maîtrisé, composé d’améthystes, de saphirs roses, orange, fuchsia et bleus. Une nouvelle fois, la marque confirme sa quête d’excellence et de soin apporté au détail avec un parfait appairage des pierres, une complexité majeure dans la réalisation de cette lunette aux couleurs de la galaxie.

Just twenty years ago, Michel Parmigiani, who founded the eponymous brand in 1996, designed his first in-house movement in an innovative tonneau shape. The hand-wound calibre PF110 was powered by two series-mounted barrels, and provided a power reserve of 8 days, which was tracked by a unique semi-circular display on the dial. Shortly after that, the Kalpa (originally named the Ionica) was born, its barrel-shaped case reflecting the 1998 PF110 calibre inside.

There’s been a quiet (r)evolution: many brands are no longer differentiating between men’s and women’s watches. So, what do they call them? Just – watches. These days, it seems to be practically a given that, under certain conditions, a watch is a unisex object.

In 1988, the Grand Seiko team made a new quartz caliber that was worthy of the high standards that the brand’s fans demanded. At that time, rapid advances in quartz technology were being made but most were focused on the addition of new functions. The Grand Seiko team thought differently and decided to focus on the simple essentials of precision and durability, in line with the ideas that had always inspired Grand Seiko.