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. Makers big and small submit their latest creations to a jury of experts (including celebrity guest judges who also happen to be watch nerds, like Kiss drummer Eric Singer) to be considered across 12 categories. At […]
Last fall, Breguet presented “Breguet: Art and Innovation in Watchmaking,” its first major U.S. museum exhibition at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor (click here for our coverage of the exhibit). Below we showcase some of the most important Breguet timepieces featured there, including the very first tourbillon watch and the first perpetual calendar for the […]
Every Baselworld watch fair brings its share of new and often innovative variations on the still-popular tourbillon watch, and this year’s was no exception. Here are 10 new tourbillons, from 10 very diverse brands, that commanded our attention. From the recently revived Angelus brand comes the Angelus U30 Tourbillon Rattrapante, a watch that contains not […]
In the late 1700s, famed watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet came to the realization that gravity was having ill effects on the accuracy of his timepieces. Horology at the time was confined to the pocket watch, which was constantly stored vertically in the user’s pocket, then stored on a table horizontally. Spending the majority of its time […]