Last December during Art Basel 2014, I had a chance to meet and take some photographs of Serena Williams. She was visiting the Audemars Piguet VIP booth at the show, and is a newer ambassador of the brand. What struck me then was how passionate and into watches she seemed. Her 19th grand slam single […]
Montreux Heritage Lab V2 is an immersive audiovisual experience that places nearly 6,000 hours of archive footage from the Montreux Jazz Festival at the fingertips of the public. Made possible with the support of Audemars Piguet, the viewing booth was designed and built on-site at the EPFL + ECAL Lab through collaboration with Metamedia Center […]
Audemars Piguet has been creating some of the most technically interesting watches in their Royal Oak Concept collection for the past couple of years. Earlier this year, they unveiled the equally complex Royal Oak Concept Supersonnerie Tourbillon Chronograph watch, a minute repeater exemplifying Audemars Piguet’s obsession with sound clarity and quality.Last year, they showed off […]
Laurent Picciotto is a well-known maverick in the world of watch retailing. His boutique outlet Chronopassion in the heart of Paris is an Aladdin’s cave for true watch aficionados who can find one of the most eclectic choices of brands in the capital. As an independent retailer not tied to any major group, Picciotto has […]
There are some watches out there that, one might feel, appear to have always been around. The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Diver Chronograph works so well as a natural extension to the Diver collection that, to me, it is certainly such a watch. A couple weeks ago at SIHH 2016, Audemars Piguet finally enhanced […]
Since its debut in 1992, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore has housed all sorts of complications in its virile, sporty case. The pinnacle of these endeavors surely was the $740,000 Grand Complication (hands-on here), but today we are looking at a more typical-for-AP combination of fine complications: the tourbillon chronograph. Let’s see what this […]
The theme selected for this 8th edition was “Age of Transitions”. It is indeed impossible to ignore the early 21st century forces at work which raise a number of question marks about our futures.Including queries relating to technological progress, doubts regarding political issues, as well as skepticism of existing growth models… The world’s evolution has […]
The evening ended with a showcase concert by Brocken Back, sending guests off in the crisp Florentine night.The brand celebrated the unveiling of the contemporary timepiece with a gala dinner at Palazzo Vecchio in the presence of actress and brand ambassador Freida Pinto, jewellery designer Carolina Bucci and watch designer Jacqueline Dimier, who created the […]
The Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve (GPHG) is the most prestigious award ceremony in watchmaking – and we have an early first look at this year’s nominees. At this stage there are 193 watches from 84 different brands that meet the criteria worth judging.Makers big and small submit their latest creations to a jury of experts to be considered across 12 […]
